Bivol-Beeterbiev III: Betebiev played it safe for a trilogy?

Dmitry Bivol and Artur Beeterbiev will meet in a trilogy game if the Saudis want to return them to fight. Promoter Bob Arum says Saudis are “In love” With this slight heavy game, though the fighter is not a “The important draw.,

Currently, Bivol (24-1, 12 kos) maintains the 175 lb indisputable championship after defeating Beeterbiev (21-1, 20 kos) for a decision of the majority of 12 rounds on its resale on February 22 in Riyadh.

Saudi trilogy push

Many boxing fans saw it as a draw, as I did, but two of the judges went with Bivol in what some heard was to calm the controversy over their first struggle on October 12. This writer had Beterbiev winning the first and saw the resale as a clear draw. Bivol did not win any struggle due to his career and withholding.

Whatever Bivol would have to win the resale last February in a true sense, he lost it when Beterbiev defeated the day’s lights in the twelfth round. Artur stopped in Bivol throughout the final round, making a mess of his face. The judges gave it to Bivol, but he really did not win this struggle. This should have been a draw.

Resale

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“Neither Bivol nor Beterbiev are not a great tie. They are great fighters, but they are not a large number. Their promoters and their promoters are not big.

“ The Saudis, rightly, are in love with this party, and have supported the fighters in both fights paying the large purses. The biggest purses they had ever had. So, if they want the struggle to pass, the Saudis do it and, obviously, the only way the fighters will be is to fight with each other. It should have a rubber party due to the proximity of the two fighting.

“This would be a final title to the competition and I hope that their next fights would be against each other,” Arum said about Beeterbiev and Bivol.

Strategic readiness?

Interestingly, Beterbiev dominated the rounds of two to six and stopped punching the rounds from seven to eleven o’clock. It was strange. At the same time, in the twelfth, Beterbiev lit him as a light switch and resumed effortlessly the defeat of Bivol’s tar.

It was very strange. Some boxing fans believe that Beterbiev intentionally had a strong intention in Bivol to ensure a third struggle with each other, because if Artur had won, there would be no sense in a trilogy match. It would be 2-0 against Bivol.

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