Chad Dawson says no one beats Beterbiev at 175

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I don’t see anyone currently beating Beterbiev. I’m very confident he beats Bivol and stops him too tbh. I rate Bivol too but I just can’t see him keeping Beterbiev off, at some point he’d get to him. Only thing that’s gonna beat Beterbiev is father time I reckon.

Going off on a bit of a tangent here but Chad could’ve/should’ve been a special fighter IMO, I thought he had everything, speed, power, accuracy, athleticism, technical ability etc. He was one of those guys I was always hoping could just put it all together but it never seemed to happen, we only saw flashes of the fighter he could have been IMO.

Agree. Dawson should have been a pound got pound mainstay for years but he never fulfilled his potential. His issues were always mental - lapses in concentration, poor external decisions such as agreeing to go to 168 for Ward and at times just a sheer lack of consistency/laziness.

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Remember Gvozdyk?

Same thing will happen to Bivol and I am a Bivol fan.

gvozdyk was not even close defensively.

and he's also a walker. not a bouncer like Bivol, he's like Pacman.

[Haka]

chad dawson was always touchable to the body because he never had fast feet. he's a walker.

the thing with Bivol is he has extremely fast feet. he has the best defensive rating in all of boxing. Beterbiev wouldn't land his power much.

Fast feet don't matter against Beterbiev, Beterbiev is ambidextrous essentially. Bivol gets worked.

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He's right, Beterbiev is elite and is a special talent.

He'll smash Bivol to bits.

[JakeTheBoxer]

I don`t know, I like both guys, but I do believe Bivol can beat him.

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not a single flush head shot. you can post it. every single headshot went through an elbow or gloves. you literally can't post a gif from the fight where Canelo lands a flush head shot.


canelo is also faster.

Beterbiev is so much more aggressive and heavy-handed at the weight than what Canelo is and is 4 inches taller than Canelo with an inch longer reach than Bivol.

Canel didn't belong at 175 giving away so many physical advantages, that's not the case with Beterbiev its a totally different fight.

[JakeTheBoxer]

He's a good fighter but people are going a bit overboard about the Joe Smith win.

He's gone from people saying he would have a hard fight with Joe Smith to a P4p GOAT who nobody except a prime Ali could have a chance against and its all a bit absurd.

A couple of months ago a sizeable number of the forum were saying Canelo would beat Bertebiev

I'm just saying chill the eff out.

Yeah, people must calm down.

2 months ago Beterbiev was something like Russian bum Canelo would beat easily.

Now he knocks everybody out, including Bivol, because he beat Smith jr. The man who already lost to Bivol also.

[HeadShots]

Fast feet don't matter against Beterbiev, Beterbiev is ambidextrous essentially. Bivol gets worked.

Fast feet is everything

You can't lay a glove on prime Mayweather and Ali because of this. Jfl

[HeadShots]

Beterbiev is so much more aggressive and heavy-handed at the weight than what Canelo is and is 4 inches taller than Canelo with an inch longer reach than Bivol.

Canel didn't belong at 175 giving away so many physical advantages, that's not the case with Beterbiev its a totally different fight.

Speed > dimensions

Which why Canelo been successful so far.


Canelo is faster than beterbiev

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pre fight they tried to make gvozdyk-beterbiev sound like a 50-50 match up with beterbiev getting older then beterbiev broke him down and crushed him

beterbiev was the underdog for that fight