Comments Thread For: Artur Beterbiev unifies light heavyweight titles after brilliant fight with Dmitry Bivol

[GFunk23]

Close fight but I thought Artur pulled it off 7-5.

[HisExcellency]

Bivol definitely landed more cleaner, harder punches throughout the fight but slowed down in the championship rounds whereas Beterbiev was the busier fighter who constantly walked him down which PROBABLY won him the fight.

[MalevolentBite]

Another boxing robbery. 116-112 really ? Come on now. I had bivol up. A draw, split draw , majority is fine but not 116-112 for neither fighter. Even if they gave it Beterbiev by one point I would had been cool but not 116-112.

[LAchargers373]

Robbery. Feel bad for Bivol he was clearly very upset with the decision. Even Arthur’s corner knew he needed a KO to win in the last 2 rounds and he clearly lost the 11th. Thats why u don’t fight ******s in Saudi Arabia lol. This was home cooked decision even beterbiev knew it. “Today allah chose me” lol he knew he won the lottery. Black eyes for bivol but a black eye for boxing in such a high profile fight

[MalevolentBite]

I had it 7 rounds to 5 for Bivol. If I was Arthur fan I would have had it 6 to 6 and if I was Bivol fan I would have it 8 to 4 for Bivol. Close fight and at the end Bivol was all class. I really thought he would say the usual "I did enough to win" but he didn't. Close fight, but not a robbery.

116-112 is a robbery.

[LAchargers373]

Another boxing robbery. 116-112 really ? Come on now. I had bivol up. A draw, split draw , majority is fine but not 116-112 for neither fighter. Even if they gave it Beterbiev by one point I would had been cool but not 116-112.

I thought it was a clear robbery. 115-113 to bivol and that was giving artur the close rounds. A draw was in the realm of possibility but a beterbiev win? Even he himself didn’t think he won the fight

[BoxWhere]

I had it 7 rounds to 5 for Bivol. If I was Arthur fan I would have had it 6 to 6 and if I was Bivol fan I would have it 8 to 4 for Bivol. Close fight and at the end Bivol was all class. I really thought he would say the usual "I did enough to win" but he didn't. Close fight, but not a robbery.

Bivol lost cause he backed of too much and let beterbiev walk him down. And he also took the last 3 rounds off, you never do that in a close fight.

[Blond Beast]

I am Canadian but may the best man win and I thought that was Bivol. He looked better at the sport of boxing. Started faster, stood his ground when he needed to. A draw would have been grateful for Beterbiev. The scores should have been reversed for Bivol. Like I said I am Cdn but a fan of both and what I saw was Bivol’s game plan and effort outperform Beterbiev’s. It was close but nothing what the scores showed in my opinion. I turned it off as soon as they said Artur won.

[DFM]

What a fight! I've had Bivol winning. Even though it was a competitive fight there was a clean winner for me. Beterbiev 116-112 is a crazy one. That means Bivol won 4 rounds and Beterbiev won 8 rounds. No way that happened. I hate to say it especially in a fight like this but this is was a robbery. I feel sorry for Dmitry Bivol, he should've got the decision.

[Hands of Stone]

Seems like Eddie been crying foul these last few fights with all his backed fighters going down. 8-4 rounds for Beterbiev is ridiculous but it is no robbery. It all depends on what u like as a judge. It’s either the aggression or the clean punching. Let’s stop calling everything a robbery. Bivol did have a lot of inactivity moments that cost him some rounds and Beterbiev definitely swept the last 3 rounds while Bivol won few of those early rounds and the middle rounds are toss ups. Great fight that could have gone either way