Dimitry Bivol resembles a maniac in his closing days of coaching for his four-belt 175-lb contest in opposition to knockout artist Artur Beterbiev on October twelfth on the Kingdom Area in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
There’s clearly a lot fear with Bivol as a result of he is aware of what he’s up in opposition to preventing Beterbiev, and he acknowledges what’s at stake. If Bivol will get knocked out, he can say goodbye to the rematch with Canelo Alvarez and a profitable combat in opposition to David Benavidez. He might not need to admit it, however these fights would fill his checking account fairly properly and put a smile on his face.
Bivol (23-0, 12 KOs), WBA mild heavyweight champion, seems obsessed and has a determined look to his coaching within the closing 13 days earlier than D-day in opposition to IBF, WBC, and WBO champion Beterbiev (20-0, 20 KOs) of their headliner, stay on DAZN PPV.
The way in which the 33-year-old Bivol is coaching, it appears apparent that he’s going be treating the combat like an newbie contest, trying to rating factors like a fencer, hitting with the white parts of the gloves, hoping to win a 12-round unanimous resolution.
From the seems of Bivol’s current exercise video, he’s not going to be taking any dangers in opposition to Beterbiev by staying in shut. Bivol is utilizing the identical three-foot step again fashion that Shakur Stevenson employs, that means that it’s going to be a cat & mouse affair. Bivol will play tag after which dart off to forestall getting nailed.
Beterbiev has different concepts. He fights with a extra professional fashion, and might be specializing in carrying Bivol down with highly effective photographs to the pinnacle and midsection to remodel him into his twenty first consecutive knockout sufferer.
Followers on social media nonetheless overwhelmingly consider that Bivol will outbox Beterbiev as he did in opposition to Canelo Alvarez two years in the past in 2022. Lots of them have by no means seen Beterbiev combat earlier than, in order that they’re simply going by the one or two fights they’ve seen from Bivol in opposition to Canelo and the very sluggish Gilberto Ramirez. This may very well be an eye-opener for the pro-Bivol followers, who will see that he’s not what they thought,
It doesn’t look the safety-first strategy that Bivol makes use of might be efficient in opposition to Beterbiev, as a result of when he does come ahead, his head and physique might be there to be hit. Bivol is sort of a poor man’s model of Oleksandr Usyk, however with out the ability that he possessed when he was within the amateurs.
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