Dmitry Bivol’s management will file a formal protest against his 12-round majority decision loss to Artur Beterbiev last Saturday night. Former WBA light heavyweight champion and former manager of Bivol, Vadim Kornilov, plans to dispute the score of 116-112 by one of the judges, although many fans had that score.
Team Bivol choosing to pollute the water will not change the outcome of the battle. 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 running during the championship rounds.
When the battle is at stake in rounds 9 to 12, Bivol was on his biketrying to escape the pressure from Beterbiev. The judge who scored the fight 116-112 clearly noted that Beterbiev was in control during the crucial final rounds of the championship.
“We will file a protest on Monday. I think the judge should at least be responsible for what he did,” said Bivol’s manager, Vadim Kornilov, speaking to BoxNation.
The reason why Bivol lost was not because of the judge, who had it 8-4 for Beterbiev. He didn’t put up much of a fight when he felt Beterbiev’s power in the seventh round and he had retreated from that round on. Whatever fight Bivol had, he took it out after being hit by a barrage of bullets in the seventh. You could see it. Muting the DAZN commentary team helped.
Beterbiev dropped bombs on Bivol, and after that seventh round, it was one-sided in Artur’s favor. Bivol is one of those fighters who lose courage after being hit hard and don’t want to take any more risks. We saw that in his fights with Canelo Alvarez, Joe Smith, and Lyndon Arthur. When Bivol gets popular, he changes his style and goes into safety mode first.
“Bivol was in control of the war. Listen, he was famous in battle. He blew Artur Beterbiev,” said Eddie Hearn on BoxNation, complaining about his hero, Dmitry Bivol losing to Artur Beterbiev last Saturday night.
“That was a lifetime achievement where you should have been walking out of the ring as the undisputed world champion. His Excellency [Turki Alalshikh] he said, ‘Wrong decision, I’ll do it again.’ We should have had an undisputed champion there.”
Hearn may live to regret directing Bivol to a rematch with Beterbiev because he may be knocked out of the second fight. If Bivol loses the rematch, his value to Hearn and his Matchroom company will be nil. Hearn would have been better off campaigning for a Bivol rematch with Canelo Alvarez. That’s what he needs to focus on. If Hearn can convince Turki to help persuade 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.
The blind man saw that Beterbiev had found Bivol and was going to destroy him in a rematch. Beterbiev has found Bivol’s game and will break him with pressure for the second time.
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