Dmitry Bivol’s administration will file an official protest over his 12-round majority determination loss to Artur Beterbiev final Saturday night time. The previous WBA gentle heavyweight champion Bivol’s supervisor, Vadim Kornilov, plans to protest the 116-112 rating from one of many judges, though many followers additionally had that rating.
Workforce Bivol selecting to muddy the water received’t change the struggle’s end result. Beterbiev (21-0, 20 KOs) was the higher man, the aggressor within the second half of the struggle, landed the higher pictures, and had Bivol on the run through the championship rounds.
When the struggle was at stake in rounds 9 by way of 12, Bivol was on his bike, making an attempt to flee the strain from Beterbiev. The decide that scored the struggle 116-112 clearly famous that Beterbiev was in management through the essential final essential championship rounds.
“We’re going to file a protest on Monday. I feel the decide has to not less than have some type of accountability for what he did,” mentioned Bivol’s supervisor, Vadim Kornilov, to BoxNation.
The rationale Bivol misplaced wasn’t due to the decide, who had it 8-4 for Beterbiev. He didn’t struggle arduous as soon as he felt Beterbiev’s energy within the seventh and was on the retreat from that spherical on. No matter struggle that Bivol had in him was taken out after he was hit with a storm of pictures within the seventh. You could possibly see it. Turning the hold forth from the DAZN commentary crew helped.
Beterbiev unloading bombs on Bivol, and after that seventh spherical, it was one-sided in Artur’s favor. Bivol is a type of fighters who loses his braveness after getting hit arduous and doesn’t wish to take any extra dangers. We noticed that in his fights in opposition to Canelo Alvarez, Joe Smith, and Lyndon Arthur. When Bivol will get buzzed, he alters his fashion and goes into safety-first mode.
“Bivol managed the struggle. Hear, he bought buzzed within the struggle. He buzzed Artur Beterbiev,” mentioned Eddie Hearn to BoxNation, grumbling about his fighter, Dmitry Bivol’s loss to Artur Beterbiev final Saturday night time.
“That was a lifetime’s of labor the place he ought to have been strolling out of the ring because the undisputed world champion. His Excellency [Turki Alalshikh] mentioned, ‘Unsuitable determination, I’ll do a rematch.’ We should always have had an undisputed champion in there.”
Hearn could reside to remorse steering Bivol right into a rematch with Beterbiev as a result of he’s more likely to get knocked out within the second struggle. As soon as Bivol loses the rematch, his worth to Hearn and his Matchroom firm can be nugatory. Hearn could be higher off campaigning for the Bivol and Canelo Alvarez rematch. That’s the one which he must be specializing in. If Hearn can persuade Turki to assist him persuade Canelo to struggle Bivol once more, there’s some huge cash to make within the second struggle. That’s what I wouldn’t do.
A blind man might see that Beterbiev had discovered Bivol and would destroy him within the rematch. Beterbiev has discovered Bivol’s recreation and can break him with strain the second time round.
