Comments Thread For: Beterbiev Drops Gvozdyk Three Times, Stops Him in Tenth

[MDPopescu]

I prefer Broner...

Seriously though... You know I've been a fan since day one, so no big revelation here...

I first watched him back in Sep 2014, vs Tavoris Cloud... and I immediately said here that he would be a stylistic nightmare for Andre Ward...

[Shadoww702]

I'm very glad that I went to this fight and watched it live. It was a brutal affair with both landing some wicked power punches. Gvozdyk taking Beterbiev's best until his body couldn't anymore and he wilted. I was pretty surprised at how many Ukrainians were in the arena. Great atmosphere for a fight.

Why were they booing Beterbiev??? NM I didn’t realize Philly had a huge Ukraine fan base?

[Shadoww702]

I always thought highly of Beterbiev. You could see from the first round his punches were damaging Gvozdyk much more than the other way around. Gvozdyk started gassing from around the 5th. I think Bivol would give Beterbiev the most trouble. At this point he would stop Kovalev and Canelo would be a fool to fight him. Not only is Beterbiev fundamentally sound but he hits really hard and can take a punch.

He also looks HUGE!!! I could see him making CW. Bivol is too small he get TKO’d. Bivol doesn’t hit hard enough and has moments where he blanks out

[Shadoww702]

... "mauling" is a term which comes from Rugby... (by the way: there's a World Cup running right now in Japan -- and, today, All Blacks just "mauled" Ireland pretty badly... )

Always in the teaching mode. That’s would of been funny seeing the Irish vs. an all black team??? I’m more into real football! I root for USA and Mexico in World Cup and then have to root for Italy. I like Spain and Argentina a lot as well.

I’m sure it’s out there but you have any links of Kov. Vs Bieve??? I didn’t realize they were so close in age?? And WOW! Kov. Went on to be a star and Bieve. To the wastelands???

[The Big Dunn]

It wasn't only about bis chin... Beterbiev hit him hard to the body, temples, top of the head, a.s.o. ...

The body shots in the 5th and 6th really hurts gvodzyk

[MDPopescu]

1) Always in the teaching mode. That’s would of been funny seeing the Irish vs. an all black team??? I’m more into real football! I root for USA and Mexico in World Cup and then 2) have to root for Italy. I like Spain and Argentina a lot as well.

3) I’m sure it’s out there but you have any links of Kov. Vs Bieve??? I didn’t realize they were so close in age?? And WOW! Kov. Went on to be a star and Bieve. To the wastelands???

1) I'm an old man, tbh...

2) I'm rooting for Italy since the '80s... but I usually like Brasil (no matter what)!...

3) There's no link for Kovalev vs Beterbiev (they fought somewhere in Russia...)

[MDPopescu]

The body shots in the 5th and 6th really hurts gvodzyk

... precisely... Beterbiev took his time (he knew what he's doing)...

[JimRaynor]

Jeez pure fatigue.

[1hourRun]

Jeez pure fatigue.

That power tho.

[JimRaynor]

That power tho.

I don't know, I wasn't extremely impressed with his power. Don't get me wrong, he hits hard, but hes not other wordly. I always sensed that Gvozdyk's chin wasn't that strong, but last night he showed that he was able to take multiple flush shots from Beterbiev without going down, in the end it was the body work and lack of conditioning that did Gvozdyk in.