Shakur Stevenson believes that Dmitry Bivol will be winning this Saturday night if he ends up stronger than in his first fight with the Unified Lakim Champion in the heavyweight category Arthur Beterbiev last October. BIVOL (23-1.12 ko) in Riyadh.
Mental warfare
In the second half, the buffalo mentally and physically pulled from the pressure that Beterbiev put on it and refused to fight. In the war sense, he was on a complete withdrawal from the sixth and never decided to dig and fight after filming several big shots from Arthur.
For fans enjoying the look of pure boxing, they were depressed to see the buffalo falling apart the way he did, but it was not unexpected if you had followed his entire career. We have seen the same behavior of him in his fight against Joe Smith Jr. -ai Lyndon Arthur. The buffalo is fine when it is on top, it landed all the shots, but when it hits it hard, it turns and retreats and remains in that way.
Beterbiev’s similar wolf exposed that mental weakness in the first fight with Dmitry, and you can bet that he is ready to complete the vulnerable prey in the rematch. This could be short and brutal on Saturday, making many buffalo fans dissatisfied. If they had studied his past struggles, they would have known what his future had. It’s okay when it’s a lightweight trace, like a smaller Canel Alvarez, but he goes to pieces when he is pressing.
“If the buffalo ends up stronger this time, I think he won the fight,” said Shakur Stevenson Dazn boxgiving his two cents on Saturday a rematch between Arthur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol.
Bive’s security style
It is understandable why Shakur is on a buffalo tape; They are the birds of the pen. Bivol is a fighter safety risk, just like Shakur, and therefore never became popular despite being held by WBA title from 2017 to 2024. It’s a long seven -year -old Reign, and a buffalo should become a star holding on the title for so long. He was not because of his style of struggle that is not risky.
“This is a man [Beterbiev] In the mission, and the buffalo will have to climb a very high occasion, “said journalist Dazn Claudia Trejo.” If that was what he could do at that age [39] With only 80%, imagine what he could do to 100%, “Claudia said, talking about Beterbiev, who came out of his knee surgery for his first fight with Bived on October 12th.” No politics. That. [the rematch] was performed very quickly. “
“When I saw that, I thought,” This can’t happen because I can’t turn so quickly, “said Ade Oladipo about the removal of the Beterbiev-Bivol that happens so quickly. I always call for a boxer who enters their bag with tools like a mechanic and find a tool for a problem.
“He has to risk a lot more in this fight,” Trejo said about the buffalo. “He will have to sit, he will have to throw him out and will have to go to his leg. What I saw in the first Beterbiev-Bivol 1 was Beterbiev to do what he was doing best, which literally goes after his prey.”
The buffalo should remain more in the pocket in the rematch, but it will not. It has a habit and the habits are difficult to remove. It’s like a person who says he’ll stop smoking. Many of them cannot carry a habit. The buffalo is the same way. Talk about being more aggressive but once he gets Taste of the eyelash Beterbieva will head for the races, and it will be the same as last time. If the judges want to make a buffalo undeserved victory and put the path to the trilogy, they can, but it will be an unpopular decision.
“I think Beterbiev has a set of skills to just swallow his way through anything, and he is only Boogeyman in that division. A light heavyweight category is his division,” Claudia said.
“He literally emptied the tool bag,” Ade said about the buffalo. “He threw everything he could in Beterbiev. I thought the buffalo was struggling with the perfect fight. The problem was that I thought Beterbiev also fought with the perfect struggle.
Last time updated 17.02.2025
