Comments Thread For: Dmitry Bivol Impressed, Very Eager To Fight Artur Beterbiev

[ecuasionz]

Bivol is skilled and all, but Beterbiev is too big and strong. Without any powerful return fire coming Beterbiev's way to make him respect you, he will stalk relentlessly until you are dead.

It may take a bigger guy like a Benevidez, or Callum Smith undrained to stop him.

[Tecnoworld]

This is the match I want to see.

Both very skilled, but Beterbiev has stronger blows.

[NC Uppercut]

Yeah Bivol is going to get at least semi-hurt by every punch Beterbiev lands, and Beterbiev throws and lands more hard punches than anyone in the sport. You can hardly find a harder matchup for Bivol, specifically, in any division in all of boxing. If Bivol beats Beterbiev he really will have an argument for P4P king, even though I dont think hes a better boxer, talent wise, than Loma or Usyk, because he will have beaten the #1 most difficult guy for him to beat in the entire sport, who just so happens to be in his division. In contrast you find guys Bivol's size, top technical fighters who aren't rough dirty or huge punchers, Bivol schools all of them but the two guys I named easily. But Beterbiev aint that.

And Beterbiev talent wise, regardless of style, is a P4P top fighter, make no mistake, in all of boxing. He does *****ing everything. He even showed great head movement vs Gvozdyk when he felt like it. Everything.

Back to breaking down the fight. Bivol is going to get hurt with everything. It's going to be a much, much higher level version of Maidana vs Khan, for a broad comparison. Bivol is going to have to show guts, toughness, poise under fire, and survival skills I'm not sure he has, to survive one round at a time and win on points. The problem is Bivol is one of the cleanest fighters in the game, pure outside boxing, no dirty tricks. Beterbiev is like a better Andre Ward, minus the low blows, but with the rest of the roughness. Is Bivol's amateur boxing trainer, a pure technician trainer, really going to have him prepared for Beterbiev, I doubt it.

When the talent is this elite on both sides, and it's a style clash, I'm starting to think it's really the trainer and the camp that decides the fight more than anything. I think we saw that vs Gvozdyk, he actually did have the firepower to ***** Beterbiev up if he landed the right shots and landed with volume, threw more right hands than he did, but he either wasn't prepared to counter what Beterbiev was doing or he didn't execute.

I see Bivol getting manhandled in the clinch if he doesn't come prepared. He needs to work with professional grapplers for that fight not just boxers. The grappling will be what does him in.

Just wondering if you’ve watched any of Biev’s amateur boxing? Vs Usyk, Kov?

[Gamboal00]

Two Russian monsters, slugging it out. We need this fight asap.

Bivol would try to take Beter 12 rounds. Is he strong enough to last though?

[Drigo]

Bivol is the most boring champ in Light heavy...

[petegrif]

Beterbiev is a beast

[whatismyname]

Beterbiev is gonna Ivan Drago the whole lhw division.

[YoungManRumble]

Would be a long night for Bivol as he doesn't have the inside game to sit and **** with Beterbiev but I could see him edge it out on points doing what he does best. Though I could also see Beterbiev just walk him down all night. Another good fight we hopefully get to witness.

[whatismyname]

If I was Bivol, I'd go after Kov and extend that reign

[JakeTheBoxer]

Bivol looks boring but he is the most skilled fighter in division. He is like Andrade. No way anybody easily beats him.