Comments Thread For: Adonis Stevenson-Sukhotsky, Beterbiev Set For 12/19

[kafkod]

Stevenson is going from HBO Championship Boxing on Saturday night to ShoBox on Friday night. I guess the next step in his devolution will be an appearance on Friday Night Fights.

Congratulations to the dumbest man in boxing for completely f.......g up his career!

He's paying Al Haymon to f**k his career up for him. That's even dumberer.

[MrRolltide91]

Outside of Hopkins & Kovalev, who else can he fight? Division isn't exactly stacked.

And I'm not defending him, I don't even like him.

Jean pascal

[MDPopescu]

You didn't see Beterbiev destroy Cloud on Sep. 27? Here it is. That said, Stevenson made a big splash, then fizzeld out with a series of ducks, and has now reverted to fighting an unknown. You can understand the distaste for him these days.

At 13:24 you may see Jean Pascal paying his respects to Beterbiev...

[MDPopescu]

I've found out that, at the amateurs, Beterbiev has a record of 1-1 against Atoev (at the light heavyweights) and 0-2 against Usyk (at the heavyweights) -- with Usyk being definitely bigger...

[kafkod]

At 13:24 you may see Jean Pascal paying his respects to Beterbiev...

Yeah, Pascal and Beterbiev are stablemates. I found this clip of them sparring on Youtube. In his interview Pascal says how strong Beterbiev is, and it does look like Artur is bullying him at one point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga6jM_3jRlM

It was Pascal who was originally scheduled to fight Cloud on this bill but he pulled out due to a dispute about expenses and Beterbiev stepped in as his replacement.
Beterbiev looks amazingly strong at 175 but I'm wondering if he can stay there his whole career. He finished up as a heavyweight in the amateurs and this was the first time he had to made 175 as a pro.
As a member of the Russian amateur team though, he will have learned all about discipline and focus, so hopefully the weight won't be a problem for him.