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Well that's understandable and fair. If I could have found an additional round to flip for Beterbiev then he could have easily won this fight 115-113.
In addition, I agree with Artur. I do believe that he did lose the first fight but in my judgement; Performed much better in this fight as compared to the first one. Actually, they both did.
However and at the same time; I felt Dmitry had done more and outperformed him. I thought that Bivol after falling behind on the scorecards; Willed his way to victory because I believed he wanted it more than Beterbiev.Comment
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but that;s my opinion.. you have yours, so why are you mad at me for? i feel like bena is an easy fight for canelo. history always repeat itself on here... the fanbase that accused other fighters of being scared, etc. always lose at the end. have a great day my boy!Comment
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Boxing is scored on 4 criteria:
1. Clean punches landed. Bivol outlanded (pretty wide) Beterbiev in 9 rounds. He outlanded Beterbiev by over 40% despite throwing 141 fewer punches.
2. Ring generalship. With the exception of rounds 4-6, Bivol fought at the range he dictated, even pushing back the pressure fighter in several rounds, while Beterbiev mostly just followed him around, unable to even cut the ring. He fought and punched when he wanted to, and forced Beterbiev to reset, often with an unfavorable exchange, for most of the fight.
3. Defense. Bivol landed at a rate of over 31%, while holding Beterbiev to a mere 17.6%. Not even a little in question.
4. Effective aggression. Bivol landed by more clean punches, drove the pressure fighter back on several occasions, and turned the tide with his combinations to take full control of the fight, after looking like he'd get stopped on rounds 5 and 6. Beterbiev's biggest moment was a cut opened in the waning minutes of the final round: enough maybe to win the round, but not to win the fight.
Bivol clearly won 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 11, while Beterbiev clearly won 4 and 5. Possible swing rounds were 3, in which Bivol outlanded Beterbiev 17 to 13; 6, which honestly I scored for Beterbiev, but Bivol outlanded him 18 to 11 in that round; 10, in which Beterbiev outlanded Bivol by 1, despite taking more power punches than he landed; and 12, in which Bivol outlanded Beterbiev 12 to 9.
Since Bivol was the clear ring general, had the best defense and most landed clean punches in 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, the question isn't "how did Bivol win", but more "how can you possibly award Beterbiev even as much as a draw".Comment
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Find one boxing writer who isn't motivated by race who says Inoue needs to come to the US to be a star. The only ones I've seen have been black former fighters who didn't even know that Inoue had already fought in the US. They're also the same ones talking ****** fights like "Inoue should fight Tank" on one hand and talking about how great Crawford is for moving up even fewer divisions to fight Canelo.
They're terrible takes. So you have no room to talk about terrible takes for others. At least those who thought Beterbiev would win had some basis in fact to believe so. You didn't even know that Inoue has fought out of Japan 4 times more than Tank Davis or Errol Spence Jr have fought out of their home countries.Comment
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Seeing as Canelo is 6 years older than Benavidez, I'd say that waiting longer favors David. So, you try to justify Alvarez's cowardice by saying that Benavidez can't beat him anyway! And you feel that Benny is a cherry pick for Canelo! Hilarious! 
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