Bivol’s swollen face: Bederbiev’s rematch approaches

Dmitry Bivol’s face seems to be permanently swollen Of the strong blows, the unified semi -weed champion, Artur Beterbiev, landed in his fight 112 days ago on October 12 in Riyadh. You can still see the swelling under both eyes of hard blows that knockout artist Beterbiev (21-0, 20 kos) hit him.

The swelling speaks

It is essential that Bivol discover a way to minimize the blows with which Berbiev hits him in his revenge because the last thing he needs is to have more swelling in addition to what is already there.

Bivol (23-1, 12 ko) lost that fight for a majority decision of 12 rounds, but is having a second chance. He will face the undisputed champion Beterbiev in 22 days on February 22 in Riad.

The promoter Eddie Hearn believes that Artur will start faster in the rematch and fight more aggressive instead of waiting halfway. Of course, Bederbiev will begin faster because he knows that he cannot afford to catch up with Bivol after the way he was in the full race of the entire second half.

Hearn is still denying his fighter, the loss of bivol, and believes that he deserved victory. The British promoter is blind to how Dmitry ran from the sixth round and was not interested in fighting after Bederbiev began attacking him. He didn’t like power, and you can’t blame him.

Eddie had a connection after the loss of bivol, the belly without stopping on how he should have won and Blah-Blah. It was a classic example of a painful loser.

Hearn still believes

“I thought Bivol still won. It was a closed fight. The problem with Dmitry was the championship rounds, which I think Bernerbiev won. That made it my opinion into a closed fight, ”said Eddie Hearn to File room boxing About Artur Beterbiev vs.’s first clash. Dmitry Bivol on October 12 of last year in Riad.

“I still had Dmitry winning the fight. I was talking on stage, me and Frank (Warren). I think Bederbiev will get faster this time because he managed to get Bivol until later in the fight. It started a bit slow.

“This time, I think it will come out quickly. Dmitry will have to be very active and very intelligent. He will also have to go through horrible moments in the fight, but no one will win this fight for a landslide. It will be another great fight between two great generational ones, ”said Hearn.

It is good that Hearn is not one of the judges who worked in the first Beterbiev-Bivol fight because he would have made a disaster of things if he had marked it for Bivol. There would have been a fans’s uproar, angry with the strange choice of Hearn, seeing it as a favoritism for its losing fighter

“This is the type of fight, Frank, if it is not a season of Riad, does it probably not happen?” Said Ade Oladipo on the shock of Betaerbiev vs. Bivol 2.

“I think it would eventually have happened, but it would not have been such a big fight because the profile they are getting from Riyad’s season,” said Frank Warren.