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Beterbiev is a beast, no doubt. But I think Bivol would’ve watched and found some encouraging things. He won’t have to look very far for Beterbiev, he was fairly easy to hit, but if he gets you first…….good night!
Smith gambled by turning into a slugfest, and I applaud that. But it was definitely the wrong choice.
Beterbiev v Bivol for all the marbles would be epic.
Beterbiev is a monster- physically strong, hard puncher, great punch selection, and relentless. That being said, Smith was made for him and Bivol is a different animal. Not saying Beterbiev can’t win or is an underdog, just saying it is a 50/50 fight and people may tend to overestimate Beterbiev because he looked so devastating against the tailor made Smith.
Beterbiev is like a less polished but larger version of GGG- great offense with deceptive defense (mainly parrying and smothering punches), but I agree that he will walk into Bivol’s shots. Bivol will be more mobile, more intelligent, and will land consistently harder shots than smith did (Bivol punches straighter and more accurately than smith). Beterbiev will bring that pressure throughout, and I’m really interested to see if Bivol can weather the storm or if he will break down late in the fight. If I had to choose a winner I would choose Bivol- only because I think boxers usually win these types of match ups more often.
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Originally Posted by ykdadamaja
Canelo should forget about anything north of 168. He was able to pick off a timid, exposed, weak zebra in Kovalev and get his 175-pound trinket.
At some point he was even eyeing gimpy zebras at cruiserweight.
Hopefully that's all past history.
Bivol embarrassed him... and Beterbiev would bury him.
i'd like to see canelo take the dmitry rematch, i'd also like to see canelo take on artur. i might have to reassess my original pick on that when if the fight happens. you can have your opinion on sergey but canelo took on a massive challenge in dmitry. i don't see anything embarrassing about losing to a really good fighterQuote:
Originally Posted by TitoFanQuote:
Originally Posted by ykdadamaja
Canelo should forget about anything north of 168. He was able to pick off a timid, exposed, weak zebra in Kovalev and get his 175-pound trinket.
At some point he was even eyeing gimpy zebras at cruiserweight.
Hopefully that's all past history.
Bivol embarrassed him... and Beterbiev would bury him.
artur seemed much quicker & his timing was exceptional
can we start to include artur among the biggest hitters of one seventy five yet?
Briton Anthony Yarde is in line to fight the winner of Artur Beterbiev v Joe Smith later this year.
Yarde, 30, will be ringside for the light heavyweight unification match for the IBF, WBC and WBO belts on Saturday in New York.
Promoter Frank Warren says he has been in talks with Top Rank's Bob Arum, who promotes Beterbiev and Smith.
"It's more or less agreed - we're looking to fight the winner in October in London," Warren told BBC Sport.
"Bob and I have agreed we'll do the fight, but they're going to be ordered [to fight Yarde] anyway. It will be a great fight, whoever wins."
Russia's Beterbiev is the WBC and IBF champion, while American Smith holds the WBO belt. Yarde is the number one ranked contender to Smith's WBO title.
Beterbiev, 37, is undefeated with a perfect knockout ratio in 17 fights, while 32-year-old Smith has suffered three losses, including a 2019 defeat by WBA champion Dmitry Bivol.
Yarde has 22 wins and two losses in 24 fights. His most recent win was over Lyndon Arthur in December when he avenged his 2020 defeat by his British rival with a decisive knockout.
A fight against Beterbiev or Smith would be the second world title fight of Yarde's career. He lost his first shot at a world title against then WBO champion Sergey Kovalev in 2019.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/61840557
Yarde will ask for a 95-5 split in his favor and then say... oh well... I tried to make the fight. ;) ;)
he needs to do something or i see it going like apollo v ivanQuote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
Yard was outlasted by an aged kovalev, beterbiev looked monsterous last fight... If he takes on beterbiev he's brave and maybe it would only be a few minutes of suffering in the ring..
I wonder how beterbiev v kovalev would have played out, kovalev in his Prime obviously. Beterbiev is looking so powerful right now but does he have the skills to get to Krusher Kovalev without being splatted? Kovalev at his best was a monster too and a pretty good boxer( he should have a win v ward). Although i think beterbiev beat up kovalev in their amateur days. Shame it never happened.
i'll throw adonis into the mix too. would have liked to see him against sergey, artur or dmitry. i really would have liked to see the nail fight dmitryQuote:
Originally Posted by palmerq
Dmitry Bivol has shown an ‘interest’ in fighting Artur Beterbiev after watching him bash the living daylights out of Joe Smith Jr.
The Russian brawler, 37, became a three-belt unified light heavyweight champion after stopping the American in two rounds.
And right away, talk has turned as to what could be next for Beterbiev, who is boxing‘s only world champion with a 100 per cent KO ratio.
Bivol’s promoter Andrey Ryabinskiy, who has also worked with Denis Lebedev and Alexander Povetkin in the past, admits he was surprised at just how quickly Beterbiev dealt with Smith Jr.
Ryabinskiy told BoxingScene.com: “I did not expect such a quick end to the fight.
“I thought that the fight would drag on until the eighth or ninth round. But this is just my subjective opinion, and the match showed that Artur Beterbiev is in very, very good form. He had a great fight and confidently won. Artur is great, he looked great in battle.
“We have an interest in organizing a fight between Beterbiev and Bivol. I don’t know if it will be possible to organize it in Russia. It would be quite difficult to do. We’ll see, I can’t tell you everything yet. But I’m sure everyone wants to see this fight. And so do we.”
Bivol, 31, hasn’t set foot inside the ring since cruising to victory over Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez in May.
The Russian had been expected to meet Canelo Alvarez in a rematch early next year, but Top Rank president Todd DuBoef wants to pair him up with his man Beterbiev.
Top Rank CEO DuBoef, who is also the step-son of legendary Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum, also mentioned Anthony Yarde and Gilberto Ramirez as two possible options for Beterbiev.
Speaking on Sky Sports, he said: “We’ve over the years had conversations about Bivol and Beterbiev fighting.
“When things during Covid kind of locked up and everything was in paralysis it didn’t go very far.
“I think that pot has gotten bigger as a result of the emergence of Bivol who came from nowhere with the big upset.
“I think that division obviously got a bit of a boost when Bivol upset Canelo.
“You have a guy, Anthony Yarde from your neck of the woods that is a mandatory challenger for that [WBO title]. So he’s going to be thrown into the mix. Bivol is in the mix obviously and you got guys like Gilberto Ramirez and things like that. I think there’s really a lot of matches in that division now.”
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