Chris Algieri believes we might see Artur Beterbiev knocked down by WBA gentle heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol on October twelfth. Algieri feels that Bivol (23-0, 12 KOs) has the facility to place Beterbiev (20-0, 20 KOs) down sooner or later of their headliner conflict on the Kingdom Enviornment in Riyadh.
It’s troublesome to think about Bivol dropping IBF, WBC, and WBO champion Beterbiev when he couldn’t knockdown Lyndon Arthur, Gilberto Ramirez, Canelo Alvarez, Craig Richards or Joe Smith.
If Bivol couldn’t knock these fighters down, it doesn’t appear real looking to imagine he’s going to have the ability to drop Beterbiev. Bivol isn’t going to need to take the danger of sitting down on his photographs in entrance of Beterbiev and getting clipped. That may occur anyway, even with Bivol utilizing his regular hit-and-run fashion.
“Don’t be shocked if Bivol catches Beterbiev sq. sooner or later throughout this combat, which ought to blow everybody’s thoughts since you’re a boxer placing the puncher down on the mat,” mentioned Chris Algieri to Probox TV, discussing the potential of Dmitry Bivol knocking Artur Beterbiev down throughout their combat.
“We’ve seen Beterbiev down earlier than. We’ve seen Bivol rating some actually good knockdowns and knockouts. So, it wouldn’t be that overseas to see that scenario occur,” mentioned Algieri.
The one true knockdown Beterbiev has suffered was in opposition to Callum Johnson in 2018, but it surely wasn’t a nasty one. He bought up and knocked Johnson out within the subsequent spherical. Earlier in his profession, Beterbiev was dropped by Jeff Web page Jr. by a flash knockdown.
“Beterbiev is an excellent boxer with a really deep beginner background, and we’ve been seeing his skillset exhibiting up extra lately as he’s gotten older. I’m undecided if that’s as a result of he’s not as ferocious as he was once. He needs to be smarter and extra misleading on his method in,” mentioned Algieri.
Beterbiev has been preventing greater punchers lately than he had earlier in his profession, and he’s needed to be extra defensively alert. If Beterbiev had fought guys like Callum Smith and Anthony Yarde earlier in his profession, he would have been extra cautious about attacking them.
“We’re seeing him use his jab, shut the gap, and place himself significantly better. Bivol is definitely not a puncher, however he can punch sufficient to get respect. Even within the Canelo combat, he was capable of disarm an offensive machine in Canelo along with his energy, his capacity to punch, and his mixture punching with the stiffness of his photographs. This can be a very difficult, nuanced matchup,” mentioned Algieri.
Canelo Alvarez was extra bothered by the rapid-fire three-punch mixtures that Bivol was throwing of their combat in 2022, and he didn’t possess the dimensions or energy to make him pay. If Bivol have been the identical dimension as Canelo, he couldn’t have fought like that with out getting knocked out becaue he was placing himself in danger in opposition to him on account of being the a lot greater man.
“You speak about Bivol’s punching energy. We’ve seen some sharp proper fingers. They shock you with velocity. They’re misleading, and hastily, you see his right-hand touchdown, and guys get harm,” mentioned Paulie Malignaggi.
Bivol does have good energy in his proper hand, but it surely’s not on the extent of a few of Beterbiev’s current opponents. These former Beterbiev knockout victims have higher energy than Bivol:
– Anthony Yarde
– Callum Smith
– Radivoje Kalajdzic
– Joe Smith Jr.
– Oleksandr Gvozdyk
– Callum Johnson
Bivol may very well be a greater puncher if he weren’t so centered on his in-and-out fashion. He’s at all times pondering of his exit technique and is unwilling to face flat-footed to load up on his photographs the way in which energy punchers do. Maybe one motive for that’s that Bivol has been harm prior to now, and he doesn’t need to take the possibility of getting tagged arduous.
