Comments Thread For: Artur Beterbiev-Dmitry Bivol just the latest in a year of controversial decisions

[tokon]

All fights that go to points potentially if not just by their very nature are "controversial" given it's meaning (give rise to prolonged public disagreement or heated discussion).

Yes, that's what the judges are there for.

[Bob]

Written like bn24 clickbait rubbish, which is all this is.

It wasn't contraversial, it was a close fight with swing rounds.
Usyk Fury, are you serious!?

[MONGOOSE66]

Only controversial to casuals. Competitive fight. I enjoyed it. You cant win going backwards 80-90% of the time.
I have more appreciation for Bivol. Fantastic fighter but he lost in my opinion.

[The plunger man]

Close fight that was razor thin and could have gone either way…I preferred bivol skill set during the fight but if Beterbiev won its to close to argue…however 116-112 was way out of line and no way was that a correct scorecard

[billeau2]

Only controversial to casuals. Competitive fight. I enjoyed it. You cant win going backwards 80-90% of the time.
I have more appreciation for Bivol. Fantastic fighter but he lost in my opinion.

Amen! A lot of people are still believe boxing matches are only about how many punches are landed. There's actually more to it and effective aggression counts.

[Boxing 112]

A rematch would settle this dispute. Close fight.

There is no dispute. You lot acting like it was even split. Not even 1 judge gave it to Bivol. No rematch needed.

[LAchargers373]

There is no dispute. You lot acting like it was even split. Not even 1 judge gave it to Bivol. No rematch needed.

Why wouldn’t you want to see a rematch? it was very close great fight. All the greats fight each other a couple of times that’s like historical lol. U mad weird

[jereme12]

There is no dispute. You lot acting like it was even split. Not even 1 judge gave it to Bivol. No rematch needed.

"Judges"? Seriously? Like in Bivol-Canelo fight after Bivol won 10 rounds? Remove that handicap and Bivol beat Beterbiev comfortably on the cards.

[vitali1999]

And the year still isn't over. Gonna be a lot of sad people December 21st

[Boro]

Yes, that's what the judges are there for.

Judges don't alleviate controversy arguably they only add to it, particularly when there isn't open scoring.

And plenty of cards seem to be scored in very peculiar manners or in such a way the scoring allows them to dig one fighter or another out a hole, despite logic and reason indicating they shouldn't of won some of (if not all) of the questionable rounds that were given to them.