Promoter Eddie Hearn was in loser denial after watching his fighter, WBA mild heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol (23-1, 12 KOs), get overwhelmed by IBF, WBC, and WBO champ Artur Beterbiev (21-0, 20 KOs) by a 12 spherical majority choice on Saturday evening on the Kingdom Area in Riyadh.
Bivol gave away his possibilities of successful by operating from rounds 4 by means of 12. Beterbiev made the struggle, being the aggressor, displaying that he wished it extra.
If not for Beterbiev coming ahead, the struggle would have resembled an novice contest as a result of that’s the method Bivol used. He wasn’t preventing with a professional type, and the judges couldn’t give him the choice wasn’t sitting down on his punches the way in which Beterbiev was.
The judges’ scores:
– 114-114
– 115-113
– 116-112
I watched the struggle, and I scored it 9-3 for Beterbiev, contemplating he landed the tougher photographs in each spherical and was on the assault. Bivol was simply jabbing, shifting, shoving, and holding.
If Hearn desires in charge anybody, he must direct his anger at Bivol as a result of he didn’t struggle with aggression and let Beterbiev dominate all the second half of the struggle. Bivol was MIA, lacking in motion within the final three rounds, 10, 11 and 12. As soon as he felt Beterbiev’s energy, Bivol wished nothing to do with preventing. He was on the transfer, ensuring he didn’t get lit up by Beterbiev, which was occurring each time he would cease.
It didn’t appear like Beterbiev was throwing onerous, however his punches would have a powerful influence. Bivol’s head was shaken up from the photographs.
Hearn was salty seeing Bivol lose as a result of he wanted the victory to get the mega-millions from a rematch towards Canelo Alvarez. Shedding to Beterbiev erased the opportunity of a second struggle towards the Mexican star, leaving Bivol in a state of affairs the place Hearn wants His Excellency Turki Alalshikh to arrange a rematch with Beterbiev.
Bivol did completely nothing from the final seven rounds of the struggle after getting hit onerous with a salvo of punches from Beterbiev within the sixth. He angered Beterbiev by unloading a storm of photographs on him in that spherical. After that sequence, it was all downhill for Bivol due to Beterbiev.
“It’s a joke. They [Beterbiev’s coaches] knew within the tenth spherical. They mentioned, ‘It’s important to knock him out to win this struggle,’” mentioned Eddie Hearn to Struggle Hub TV, reacting to his fighter Dmitry Bivol’s loss to Artur Beterbiev. “They’re all standing within the nook; the struggle is over. I’m in Bivol’s nook, and so they’re [Beterbiev’s trainers] wanting round like this [frowning].
“How are you going to rating that struggle 8-4 to Artur Beterbiev? Unbelievable. Horrible choice. Hopefully, His Excellency will do the first rate factor and provides Bivol a rematch. It was a masterclass efficiency in an incredible struggle. I don’t need to disrespect Artur Beterbiev as a result of he’s an unbelievable champion, however he didn’t win that struggle. Dmitry Bivol gained that struggle,” mentioned Hearn.
