Pod host Teddy Atlas believes Dmitry Bivol will acquire extra from his combat in opposition to Artur Beterbiev than the opposite method round and might be higher within the rematch in 2025.
Atlas argues that Bivol (23-1, 12 KOs), having proven that he may get previous the boogeyman Beterbiev (21-0, 20 KOs) in a single piece in a detailed combat, will profit him within the rematch.
Furthermore, Atlas maintains that with Beterbiev turning 40 on January twenty first, his punishment in his conflict in opposition to Bivol will have an effect on him for the second contest.
Bivol was punished greater than Beterbiev and damage within the championship rounds. It wasn’t a bodily combat by any means as a result of motion Bivol used for the total 12 rounds, particularly within the later quarter of the competition. He admitted after the combat that he had copied Sugar Ray Leonard’s combating model for his match in opposition to Marvin Hagler on April 6, 1987. Leonard was shifting, throwing weak shoeshine flurries, and taking large pictures from Hagler in his controversial win.
Bivol was on the run, making an attempt to flee Beterbiev’s stress and giving up the championship rounds with no combat. The 33-year-old Bivol had little interest in combating Beterbiev from rounds 9 by means of 12. That’s the place Bivol misplaced the combat.
“He [Beterbiev] turns into 40. I’d say the man that’s nearer to 40 could be extra affected by that type of combat in a rematch than the man [Bivol] that’s seven years youthful,” stated Teddy Atlas on his channel, making an argument that Artur Beterbiev took the punishment in his combat final Saturday night time that may have an effect on him in his rematch with Dmitry Bivol.
What Atlas says right here doesn’t match this combat as a result of it wasn’t a struggle. Bivol primarily landed defensive keep-away jabs and solely opened up as soon as within the combat, within the seventh spherical, when he briefly flurried on Beterbiev. Apparently, that spherical was the turning level of the combat, as Beterbiev went on the assault, hurting Bivol and dominating the rest of the competition.
Spherical seven was Bivol’s one transient second of braveness, and it ended up being his downfall as a result of Beterbiev damage him and gave up making an attempt to combat from that second on.
Rounds 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 all belonged to Beterbiev as a result of he was stalking a really scared-looking Bivol and nailing him with pictures. Bivol was in survival mode.
“Bivol might be much less accepted bodily, whereas Beterbiev may be extra impacted in a rematch. Who does it profit extra from a bodily and emotional expertise? I believe it advantages Bivol extra. Bivol might be higher for that have within the rematch,” stated Atlas.
