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

[1Eriugenus]

'Who? Do you mean Canelo? I thought Bivol whupped that ass. I pick Beterbiev to win this fight. However, I am both courageous and brave enough to admit that I was wrong. It was Bivol who won this fight'

MoFo, you typed something on your computer. You didn't pick up your gumshield & get up to be hit again. You didn't go into a burning building to rescue the cat. You didn't brave the rising tides to recover artefacts. There is nothing brave or courageous about posting some **** online.

[1Eriugenus]

'Yeah but that’s not how the scoring system works. You can barely win the first six rounds and lose the last six wide and still get a draw. I think EVEN rounds should not be discouraged as much. A lot of rounds are closer to even than anything else, especially early feel out rounds. You can win a point by landing 6 jabs to your opponents 5 in round one. Your opponent still only wins one point if he out lands you 30 to 15 in another round. 10-8 rounds are discouraged without a knock down. I’m not doubting Beterbiev was in the better position by the end of the fight but if it kept going but Sports have time limits. A draw would be fine for me. But 8-4 Beterbiev seems way off. Ringside could have looked or felt different I’ll never know. Championship rounds are not worth more than any other round for winning. Winning a round wide is not worth more than winning a round by a C hair as it stands right now.

It would be interesting if you made winning the championship rounds worth an extra half point or full point? each? That way all the damage you have done, all the stamina you have left, looking like the fresher better fighter at the end of the fight is worth more. You had ten rounds to figure out, damage, slow down your opponent so now the last two rounds really show how much work you have done and what you have left. Am I crazy? There has to be a better way.'

I don't think scoring late rounds extra would be remotely a good idea. I DO think it would be good to see more drawn rounds. For some reason they have always been discouraged. As you say, it is silly that if boxer A lands 6 jabs to boxer B's 5 in a feeling-out round that is 10-9 to A & when boxer B outclasses A landing damaging combinations that can't quite put him down, that is also a 10-9 to B. It does matter, for example Rid**** Bowe v Tony Tubbs. IMO, if you score all the really close rounds as draws then Tubbs wins. The judges scored it, quite correctly, for Bowe because in very close rounds, where there was nothing between them, Bowe was the aggressor.