Dmitry Bivol’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, still insists that he won the fight against Artur Beterbiev last Saturday and that he should be the undisputed light heavyweight champion today.
If Hearn has his way, Bivol will get another opportunity to fight unified champion Beterbiev for his titles. We don’t want Bivol to fail to engage like last time, lose, then have Hearn complain about winning and make a fuss about wanting another rematch. Fans don’t want to see endless rematches.
Hearn wants a rematch for his beaten fighter, Bivol (23-1, 12 KOs), but it’s out of his hands.
His Excellency Turki Alalshikh will have to decide if he wants Bivol to challenge undisputed champion Beterbiev (21-0, 20 KOs) next or if he should get in line to earn the shot by one of the governors, David Benavidez, David defeating Morrell. or Joshua Buatsi.
Bivol fought well in the first four rounds, but didn’t do much in the last eight rounds. There were very few punches landed by either fighter during rounds one through four. Hearn says he had Bivol win either four of the first five or all the rounds.
Of course, it wasn’t possible because there wasn’t enough offense from Bivol to win by more than two. The bump stats were very close, but Beterbievs’ shots were much harder.
“I’m not going to go back into my shell. “I get a bit stuck on my emotions in battle.” I double down. We won the fight, and we want a rematch,” said Eddie Hearn Matchroom Boxinginsisting his fighter Dmitry Bivol deserved the win against Artur Beterbiev, he is now demanding a rematch.
“The 116-112 scorecard made me rattle, and I thought it was unacceptable. I was amazed at how three judges, none of them gave Dmitry Bivol that fight if you look at the general reaction. I truly believe Dmitry Bivol deserves to be the undisputed champion.”
Hearn should not have been rattled by the 116-112 scoreline as it was clear that Beterbiev took over the fight in the final six rounds. Bivol did nothing but use his Sugar Ray Leonard style, which he copied from Ray’s fight against Marvin Hagler. This fight was considered controversial by many fans who saw it years ago.
“I thought Bivol boxed incredibly well. He did give away a few rounds at the back end of the fight. He should have been more active in those rounds. For me Dmitri Bivol was the winner. If you really know your boxing, you know what Dmitry Bivol did in that fight.
“If you look at most of that fight, he was brilliant. Artur threw so many shots, but how many did he land cleanly? Where I sat three rows behind, they all gave it to Dmitry Bivol.
“Beterbiev took quite a beating later in the fight. He barely landed in the early part of the fight. I felt after four or five rounds, it was either clear or I gave Beterbiev one round,” Hearn said.
Again, neither fighter landed many punches in the first half of the fight, but Beterbiev was by far the one connecting with the harder punches. You could hear Beterbiev’s shots when they landed, and they made a lot of noise.
“That particular judge didn’t get it right,” Hearn said of the judge who scored it 116-112 for Beterbiev. “I had it 8-4 (for Bivol). 7-5 is really unbiased. From where I sat, six feet from the ring, I felt Dmitry Bivol was in control of the fight for the majority of the fight,” Hearn said.
The judge who scored it 116-112 clearly saw Beterbiev dominating the second half, as many did, and he won at least two of the first six rounds. It’s easy to get to that identical score because Bivol didn’t do anything in the second of the fight. He did not win the first six rounds. At best, Bivol won three of the first six and then settled in the last six.