Dimitry Bivol resembles a maniac in his ultimate days of coaching for his four-belt 175-lb contest in opposition to knockout artist Artur Beterbiev on October twelfth on the Kingdom Area in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
There’s clearly a lot fear with Bivol as a result of he is aware of what he’s up in opposition to combating Beterbiev, and he acknowledges what’s at stake. If Bivol will get knocked out, he can say goodbye to the rematch with Canelo Alvarez and a profitable battle in opposition to David Benavidez. He might not wish to admit it, however these fights would fill his checking account fairly properly and put a smile on his face.
Bivol (23-0, 12 KOs), WBA gentle heavyweight champion, appears obsessed and has a determined look to his coaching within the ultimate 13 days earlier than D-day in opposition to IBF, WBC, and WBO champion Beterbiev (20-0, 20 KOs) of their headliner, reside on DAZN PPV.
The way in which the 33-year-old Bivol is coaching, it appears apparent that he’s going be treating the battle like an newbie contest, seeking to rating factors like a fencer, hitting with the white parts of the gloves, hoping to win a 12-round unanimous determination.
From the appears of Bivol’s current exercise video, he’s not going to be taking any dangers in opposition to Beterbiev by staying in shut. Bivol is utilizing the identical three-foot step again model that Shakur Stevenson employs, which means that it’s going to be a cat & mouse affair. Bivol will play tag after which dart off to stop getting nailed.
Beterbiev has different concepts. He fights with a extra professional model, and will likely be specializing in carrying Bivol down with highly effective pictures to the top and midsection to rework him into his twenty first consecutive knockout sufferer.
Followers on social media nonetheless overwhelmingly imagine that Bivol will outbox Beterbiev as he did in opposition to Canelo Alvarez two years in the past in 2022. Lots of them have by no means seen Beterbiev battle earlier than, so that they’re simply going by the one or two fights they’ve seen from Bivol in opposition to Canelo and the very gradual Gilberto Ramirez. This may very well be an eye-opener for the pro-Bivol followers, who will see that he’s not what they thought,
It doesn’t look the safety-first strategy that Bivol makes use of will likely be efficient in opposition to Beterbiev, as a result of when he does come ahead, his head and physique will likely be there to be hit. Bivol is sort of a poor man’s model of Oleksandr Usyk, however with out the facility that he possessed when he was within the amateurs.
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