Dmitry Bivol’s management will file an official protest for his 12-round majority decision loss to Artur Beterbiev on Saturday night. The former manager of the former WBA champion Bivol, Vadim Kornilov, planned to protest the score of 116-112 from one of the judges, although many fans also had that score.
Team Bivol choosing to clear the water will not change the outcome of the fight. Beterbiev (21-0, 20 KOs) was the better man, the aggressor in the second half of the fight, landed the better shots, and had Bivol on a rampage during the championship rounds.
When the fight was in play in rounds 9 to 12, Bivol was on his biketrying to escape the pressure of Beterbiev. The judge who scored the fight 116-112 obviously noticed that Beterbiev was in control during the last crucial rounds of the championship.
“We will hold a protest on Monday. I think the judge will have at least some responsibility for what he did,” Bivol’s manager, Vadim Kornilov, told BoxNation.
The reason Bivol lost was not because of the judge, who had it 8-4 for Beterbiev. He didn’t fight hard once he felt Beterbiev’s power in the seventh and was on the back foot from that time on. Any fight Bivol had in him was removed after he was hit with a flurry of shots in the seventh. You can see. Turning the sound off from the DAZN commentary team helped.
Beterbiev was unloading bombs on Bivol, and after that seventh round, it was one-sided in Artur’s favor. Bivol is one of those fighters who loses his courage after being hit hard and doesn’t want to take additional risks. We saw that in his fight against Canelo Alvarez, Joe Smith and Lyndon Arthur. When Bivol is hit, it changes its style and goes into first rescue mode.
“Bivol controlled the fight. Listen, he crashed the fight. He burned Artur Beterbiev,” Eddie Hearn told BoxNationgrumbling about his fighter, the loss of Dmitry Bivol to Artur Beterbiev on Saturday night.
“It was a lifetime of work where he should have walked out of the ring as the undisputed world champion. His Excellency (Turki Alalshikh) said: “Wrong decision, I will have a rematch.” We should have had an undisputed champion here.”
Hearn may live to regret leading Bivol into a rematch with Beterbiev because he is likely to be knocked out in the second fight. Once Bivol loses the rematch, his value to Hearn and his company Matchroom will be worthless. Hearn would be better off living for the rematch between Bivol and Canelo Alvarez. That’s what you need to focus on. If Hearn can convince Turki to help convince Canelo to fight Bivol again, there’s a lot of money to be made in the second fight. That’s what I wouldn’t do.
A blind man could see that Beterbiev had caught Bivol and destroyed him in the rematch. Beterbiev understood Bivol’s game and broke him with pressure the second time.
