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Shawn Porter won Bivol 8-4 over Beterbiev


Shawn Porter felt that Dmitry Bivol dominated Artur Beterbiev, winning by a wide score of 8-4 in their light heavyweight undisputed championship fight last Saturday night in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Porter. said that Bivol’s movement took away Beterbiev’s offense and didn’t allow him to land his punches.

Porter felt that the jabs that Bivol (23-1, 12 KOs) landed were enough for him to get the majority of the rounds in the fight. Going into the battle, Porter predicted that Bivol would win. The judges scored it 114-114, 115-113 and 116-112.

Porter didn’t consider that Beterbiev would hurt Bivol, which would force him to run and put him in survival mode for the entire second half of the fight. He questioned his age and his recent knee surgery going into the fight.

He figured the surgery would slow Beterbiev down enough for Bivol to win, but he looked almost as good as he did in his last fight. The only difference is that Bivol was on his bike the whole time trying to stop himself from being knocked out. He achieved that goal, but still lost.

Losing a decision was better than getting knocked out, because Bivol now gets another payday in a rematch, which he wouldn’t have gotten if he stood and fought Beterbiev and got knocked out.

“I thought Bivol fought a great fight, but you can’t win a fight of this caliber fighting moments in fights. He fought in leaps and bounds. He fought not to be knocked out. He fought to survive,” Lionell Thompson told the Porter Way Podcast channeltalk about Dmitri Bivol fighting in survival mode in his loss to Artur Beterbiev last Saturday night.

“He tried in moments, but when Artur hit him, you could tell. Sometimes, in a close fight like this, boxing is about perception. It’s about what looks better. You saw when Artur Bivol would strike; sometimes he ran for a minute before throwing a punch.

“Artur was throwing and missing, but it looked like he wanted it more, and of course the punches hurt because he’s on that bike and he’s holding on. He only fights in jumps. Bivol, I think if he fought more he would have stopped if he fought more, and I think the judges saw that too.

“I think he fought in spots and tried to steal the last few seconds of the round. You saw a lot of his shots hit his gloves, but a lot of Bivol’s shots also hit Artur’s gloves. It looked good. It looked fancy, but that’s why Artur was able to come back right away.

“I think the judges gave it to Artur because in those exchanges. When Bivol’s shots hit Artur’s gloves, he’s like, ‘Okay,’ but when Artur’s shots hit his gloves, you saw that he was on that bike, like, ‘Oh, no.’ So, when you really sit down, I let Artur win. It was a close fight, but I think the right man won. I do want to see a rematch.”

It was clear that the punches from Beterbiev that hit Bivol’s gloves were still causing a lot of damage to his head as he took off each time like a hot frying pan was burning him. He didn’t look happy after being hit.

“I had it 115-113 for Artur. I let Artur win the last three rounds. In one round I thought Bivol was going to cough it up. I thought it was the tenth or the eleventh. I thought he was going to cough it up,” said Lonnie B.

It was more than one round where Bivol looked close to being knocked out. There were several of them, but he survived by running away. If Beterbiev had been a little quicker to cut off the ring on Bivol, he would have knocked him out.

“I think that’s why the judges gave it to Artur, because there were moments in the fight where Bivol mentally broke down, and you could see he was mentally fighting like, ‘No, I can’t stop. I can’t.’ He got on that bike and continued to survive,” Thompson said.

Bivol looked like he was ready to quit in rounds 8, 10 and 11 when he was under fire by Beterbiev. In the 12th, Bivol did not try to fight, but moved and held. He either thought he had the fight in the bag, or he hoped to survive. Again, going the full 12 rounds meant that Bivol could get a rematch because the promoter and team would muddy the waters by claiming he should have won, even though they didn’t believe it. Bivol knew he wasn’t winning, so he didn’t make a fuss about his loss.

“I felt like every time he had a moment, Bivol would take that moment away from him,” Shawn Porter said. “I felt that the majority of the moments that Beterbiev had, Bivol was able to take it away from him and control it and not let him capitalize on those moments. I let Bivol win the battle 8-4.”

The only way Bivol could take away the “moment” from Beterbiev in the last five rounds was by moving, but he couldn’t throw punches. It was self-defeating. Bivol took the moments away from Beterbiev, but he paid the price as he lost the fight due to not throwing punches.

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