A few years ago Beterbiev was this hot prospect that seemed 1 or 2 fights away from becoming a hot contender. Now he's fighting a part time sausage dude? What happened?
he switched to bob arum. he went from fighting bums in canada. to figting bums in the usa for title belts.
Is he actually with Arum now?
he is in a contact dispute with Gym and while arum shouldnt legally be allowed to promote beterbiev for tonight fights it would cost GYM millions and take years to maybe win the battle.
beterbievs contact with gym is up soon. so it's weird to see someone with an exclusive contract be promoted by someone else but GYM is a little guy.
great fight. Vargas came on strong in the last round of the fight. the knockdown looked like the guy wouldnt get up.
after what seemed like 100 clean shots to the face I knew it was over. I think it was a good stoppage the guy looked out of it on his feet.
now they can rematch as well and they should. both take 5 months off and do a rematch in spring
I have no issues with people who scored it for Kovalev but I do take issues who agreed with lettermans card. everyone I see post their round by round that says a robbery has round 9 wide for kovalev when it was the most obvious ward round.
I could easily see peoples argument 6-6 and kovalev winning by a point. hell I'd even humour 7-5 koalev. but majority of Kovalev fans say blind robbery kovalev won 9-10 rounds :fingersx:
seriously this man has no chin. none. he's not on the seth mitchell/david price level but this pillow punching italian guy rocked him so he's almost there.
eating 50 punches from froch and never going down. not exactly no chin.
I disagree with that Kovalev has more to adjust. but there also IS more he can adjust. after round 6 he assumed he won all 6 with the knockdown and just had to stay on his feet. and won what maybe one more round arguably 2. two more of the last 6 would have been enough for me to give him the nod. but Kovalev did so little in the last half. the first have of the fight he loooked amazing then he was coasting. I could see how some people have kovalev winning 114-113 but anything wider than that I just dont see.
I think after the second ward fight or even the first one it was clear Kovalev wasnt so great on the inside yet his fans will deny it and say he's amazing at it. that being said it's going to be easier said than done to force the fight on the inside.
"fight in my home town because even if you beat me in all 12 rounds my hometown judges will make it at the very least a SD lose
and I'll say I was robbed!!!"
the last 3 punches the first one wasn't low and Kovalev bent over from it, it's hard to punch someone to the body when they are bent over like that. final one was low the one before was borderline. Kovalevs trunks were overly high. the arthur abraham trick. I hate how this seems to negate the fact that Kovalev had gassed badly 2 rounds prior and was losing the fight and was hurt upstairs and had nothing on his punches anymore. The stoppage was weird but a DQ??? would have been dumb. the ref should have broke it up and said "that last one was low keep em up? and then turn to kovalev and say "you were bending over at thee waist that's why he hit you low"
you are not allowed to bend over at the waist like that, it's viewed similar to turning your head and being rabbit punched. and if anyone says "the punches were low before he bent over"
I suppose the Earth is flat too?
Rodriquez was out on his feet momentarily. coto would have landed 2-3 more huge punches if the ref didnt grab cotto. before delvin fell.
though an argument could be made the ropes were holding him up, and the ref could have counted. delvin had nothing left
wow, these guys who hold a belt hostage for 4, 5 years of "special extensions" and fury gets stripped in a week?
IBF is a belt that takes mandatories seriously. everytime you see an IBF champ "ducking" and fighting "bums" it's because they'd lose their belt if they didn't.
wlad was fighting mandatories once a year.
BJS will fight ggg but on his terms probably over him 250k to fight and then call him a ducker for not taking it and enough dummies online will buy it.
ali was alot more racist, you idiot. shows how much you know about ali
Lol no kidding Ali was very racist. I don't care what he does outside of the ring just inside. I still say floyd takes manny.