Comments Thread For: Artur Beterbiev Suffers Torn Meniscus, Postponing Dmitry Bivol Fight

[boxing IQ]

Bivol didn't want to fight until he turned 40 anyway.

[elfag]

NO. Fighters of old fought more often. They stayed in shape so they averted injuries like this. Fighters fight so infrequently now that their bodies get cold and their ligaments tighten (not to mention weight gain). That takes a toll on you during training.

hes 40 dude. "fighters of old" were shot in their early 30s

[JakeTheBoxer]

Dmitry should move on. Don`t follow the destiny of Stanionis waiting on Ortiz jr. fight that never happened. Beterbiev is almost 40 old and it is unclear when he will be ready.

[Toprope]

The more I think of it, I am honestly not sure the fight will happen, and Artur may just retire after the injury... OR he makes this the retirement fight and they move it to Russia... where this would be a massive fight.

In the meantime, I think we possibly get Bivol vs Canelo 2 in the fall? And Artur vs Bivol in January in Moscow?

Canelo Alvarez ain't goin nowhere near 175 ever again for the rest of his boxing life!

[southpaw_07]

Anthony Yarde to step in I guess, would be a great fight that he may win

[famicommander]

Torn meniscus would mean atleast 1 year of recovery time for a normal person. Not adding the camp and sparring time. Though I doubt if its torn meniscus.

No, they'll likely just shave the meniscus off and he'll be back quickly. Both Karl Anthony-Towns and Joel Embiid in the NBA had the exact same injury this season. Towns came back extremely fast, just 4 weeks after the surgery, while Embiid took 8 weeks. But in general it's a 6-8 week recovery timeline and then they're back to full activity.

It will have negative consequences later in life, but shaving off the torn part is a much faster recovery and most athletes choose that over the full repair. The full repair doesn't always work, but when it does it's a better quality of life in the long term. But the trade off is a much longer recovery time and the chance that it simply doesn't heal and you end up having to shave it anyway.

[dan-b]

Because Benavidez is much bigger, already whooped his ass in sparring when he was 21 and not 40 years old. Lets see.

You should reevaluate your fanboyism of individual fighters and particularly Benavidez. It's boring apart from anything else. David looks like a decent pressure fighter who will be in some exciting fights. He's not Roy Jones.

[..David..]

Nooooo this is heartbreaking

[dan-b]

This sort of thing happens and just as in sport animals the best are the most injury prone when conditioning them, because they always give their all and it can break something quite easy, the man in the street doesn't have a clue how hard these are guys push themselves its close to super human stuff. Hope he heals completely and we get the fight.

As far as I remember, Floyd Mayweather never once postponed a fight due to injury. Neither did Pacquiao, Bernard Hopkins, Lennox Lewis and many others.

The post May-Pac inactive generation are doing something wrong.

[Dare7]

I don't trust Beterbiev, he always has this knack of getting injury when fight date is set so it can be changed to his own convenient time. There is something fishy about him.