I love Beterbiev but he lands illegal punches

[MulaKO]

Keep the hate real
Rabbit punch now
Yesterday was Peds
Can hardly wait for tomorrow
Smfh

[HeadShots]

The opponent turning away from the power also causes shots to land on the side top and rear of the head.

He trains to punch the back of the head


watch that first KD. 3 straight back of the head shots

but 10 seconds earlier he landed a back of the head shot. He started spamming it in round 7

[MulaKO]

Hey fugh head , how’s the mma scene ?
I thought you said boxing is dead ?
But here you are like the waste of skin you are
I’ve seen more rabbit punches in mma not to speak of the peds situation
Boxing is dead hey fugh head
Smfh

[Haka]

You can only pull it off if you are the stronger/pressure fighter putting the opponent in a defensive spot. Callum could never impose this style on Beterbiev .

[satiev1]

That's because his oppnents drop their head down as he is throwing his punch. Can't blame him for it

[hhh1200]

First punch that got him in trouble was behind the head or very close to it, immediately followed by 2 more right hands behind the head. Punch that knocked him down for the first time was behind the head. I counted at least 3-4 punches in the flurry that was behind the head.


Last shot that dropped him was a kill shot behind the head

How does he reach up to a 6'3 guy and keep punching behind his head with those short arms? seems like when guys bend down and a combination of how he loops his hooks. it's like people crying about ward's low blows when kovalev went in fetal position. Ward was just supposed to stand back, let him straighten up and recover.

[SN!PER]

Maybe some of the shots are dirty but he's not going to change. He's proven that he can use this style and the refs let him get away with it. What will the next opponent do to nullify Artur's style? That's what really matters. They need to come up with a plan. Twenty men have tried, and twenty have failed.

[Legends456]

I’ve noticed that too, and I’ve tried to watch his punches in slow motion and this is what I’ve taken from it.

He throws these weird fishhook-trajectory clubbing hooks that seem to land on the back, side, and corners of his opponents skulls.

They look dirty, but it also sometimes seems like the opponent ducks and dips towards him and the trajectory of the punch means it lands there to the back of the skull instead of the temple.

In his favor (I am really stretching at this), his high-octane output may cause his opponents to try to move in toward him to take some of the steam off his attack (like Fury did against Wilder in their third fight), but as Beterbiev’s power punches are short to mid-range, it can have more disastrous consequences.

I like Beterbiev, or maybe I should say I want to like him, but I understand what OP is saying, and I must admit that his knockout wins aren’t pretty, and they don’t look clean.

Not entirely sure what to make of it.

Put a gun to my head though, and I’d probably say he knows what he’s doing and is targeting the backs of his opponents heads to do more damage. I’m guessing he masks it well enough to get away with it. Most (not all) of the stuff he pulls looks on the fence to me — not as bad as Wilder in the 12th round against Parker, but definitely not squeaky clean, either.

[hugh grant]

Yeh when old men got high ko rates, something's fishy

[james240]

He's a dirty mofo who has mastered the way of the sneaky rabbit punch

No wonder he's so dominant. Imagine getting repeatedly punched to the back of the head with that kind of power

its not sneaky at all tho? its blatant not sure how it keeps eluding the refs.