Round-by-Round: Artur Beterbiev vs. Dmitry Bivol II | PPV - 22 February 2025

[a force]

That’s a shocker than Deon Dwarte’s scored the 6th to Bivol.

That’s a clear Beterbiev round to everyone else that I’ve seen.

If that goes the other way it’s a majority draw.

[leelee88]

Had Bivol winning fight one by 2 or 3 and Beterbiev by 7 5 this time

[Ruthless-RKO]

That’s a shocker than Deon Dwarte’s scored the 6th to Bivol.

That’s a clear Beterbiev round to everyone else that I’ve seen.

If that goes the other way it’s a majority draw.

Yup! That’s true. Didn’t see that.

Imagine.

Don’t know what he was watching that round.

[a force]

That’s a shocker than Deon Dwarte’s scored the 6th to Bivol.

That’s a clear Beterbiev round to everyone else that I’ve seen.

If that goes the other way it’s a majority draw.

Yup! That’s true. Didn’t see that.

Imagine.

Don’t know what he was watching that round.

I don’t know why I still get surprised.

Steve Gray who scored Buatsi - Smith 110-119 somehow managed to score a clear Smith round to Buatsi as the only one he gave him. The other two judges scored that round to Smith.

[squiggy]

The A.I. "fourth judge" had it 116-112 Bivol. Which is very plausible.

[coneye]

Trilogy makes sense now. But as porter said… how many of them do you want… but it’s the best option.

But id kinda still would would like to see Bivol get a crack at 168 undisputed (he says he can make it easy and he looks smaller at the weight).

I’d still also like to see Bert vs opetia

Think Bert stops Opetai and does it easy

[knockout]

also joe is defo getting that dr uzzy touch, 267 looking like that when he used to look softer at like 245

Indeed

[forcefraser]

For all the hype Billy Nelson gives us on Bakole, he sure pulled him out quick last night

Blatant money grab?

[gregregegg]

Trilogy makes sense now. But as porter said… how many of them do you want… but it’s the best option.

But id kinda still would would like to see Bivol get a crack at 168 undisputed (he says he can make it easy and he looks smaller at the weight).

I’d still also like to see Bert vs opetia

Think Bert stops Opetai and does it easy

See I think jai stops Bert and does it easy… but I know there’s people like you out there so that is why I think it’s a good fight…

[funso banjo baby]

Commentator says Oct is too soon for the rubber match. Yeah, 8 months is way too soon


Also one of the commentators said 'bivol will not back off'

Oh really

[DrDuke]

Bivol has finally taken the win he deserved!

It was nice to sing his enterance song in karaoke yesterday.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Just saw on TNT coverage before the scores were read..

Woodhall had it 114-114
Frampton had it 114-114
Crolla had it 115-114 Beterbiev

What was the comms like?

[big lennox]

I had Beterbiev winning by a round. I gave rounds 1, 7, 8,9 and 11 to Bivol.

Round 10, I had as even, and the rest I gave to Beterbiev.

[joshj909]

Just saw on TNT coverage before the scores were read..

Woodhall had it 114-114
Frampton had it 114-114
Crolla had it 115-114 Beterbiev

What was the comms like?

Comms weren't too biased, leaning towards Bivol at the beginning, Beterbiev in the middle and Bivol towards the end. They had most rounds clear one way or the other. Generally thinking Bivol won but said they wouldn't have argued it either way if Beterbiev managed to take the close rounds.

[DrDuke]

I scored it like Mannix, 115-113 for Bivol. 1-1 on paper, while I have it 2-0. Anyway, they'll probably make a trilogy.

[cormack]

justice was served

[revporl]

That was an epic, I thought it was the right result, but I wasn't scoring it rbr so not 100% sure. Bivol dominated the start and the end and seemed to go to sleep a bit in the middle. I guess the optics of the first fight was that Berb was moving him around the ring a lot, despite his superior punch output and that this was less the case this time, especially in the last few rounds.

Quick question though.. has DAZN got all of the Queensbury fights now, as well as the Matchroom ones? I don't subscribe currently and £24 p/m seems a lot to me, but if it's the case that they have a monopoly on our 2 biggest promoters, plus a bunch of other stuff, £120 for a years sub starts to sound reasonable, despite the outlay. Is all the Saudi stuff PPV though?

Sky look poor these days, and I suppose I could get the occasional NOWTV 24hr pass thing and treat it as a PPV if they have anything worth watching on.

[Ruthless-RKO]

justice was served

First fight wasn’t a robbery.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Quick question though.. has DAZN got all of the Queensbury fights now, as well as the Matchroom ones? I don't subscribe currently and £24 p/m seems a lot to me, but if it's the case that they have a monopoly on our 2 biggest promoters, plus a bunch of other stuff, £120 for a years sub starts to sound reasonable, despite the outlay. Is all the Saudi stuff PPV though?

From April 1 Yh.

Don’t forget they have GBP cards too

And from the Summer, there’s a chance they might even get Top Rank.

I can see the prices rising though

[Boxerbeetle]

That was an epic, I thought it was the right result, but I wasn't scoring it rbr so not 100% sure. Bivol dominated the start and the end and seemed to go to sleep a bit in the middle. I guess the optics of the first fight was that Berb was moving him around the ring a lot, despite his superior punch output and that this was less the case this time, especially in the last few rounds.

Quick question though.. has DAZN got all of the Queensbury fights now, as well as the Matchroom ones? I don't subscribe currently and £24 p/m seems a lot to me, but if it's the case that they have a monopoly on our 2 biggest promoters, plus a bunch of other stuff, £120 for a years sub starts to sound reasonable, despite the outlay. Is all the Saudi stuff PPV though?

Sky look poor these days, and I suppose I could get the occasional NOWTV 24hr pass thing and treat it as a PPV if they have anything worth watching on.

All the big cards are PPV on DAZN.

[golden_labrador]

That was an epic, I thought it was the right result, but I wasn't scoring it rbr so not 100% sure. Bivol dominated the start and the end and seemed to go to sleep a bit in the middle. I guess the optics of the first fight was that Berb was moving him around the ring a lot, despite his superior punch output and that this was less the case this time, especially in the last few rounds.

Quick question though.. has DAZN got all of the Queensbury fights now, as well as the Matchroom ones? I don't subscribe currently and £24 p/m seems a lot to me, but if it's the case that they have a monopoly on our 2 biggest promoters, plus a bunch of other stuff, £120 for a years sub starts to sound reasonable, despite the outlay. Is all the Saudi stuff PPV though?

Sky look poor these days, and I suppose I could get the occasional NOWTV 24hr pass thing and treat it as a PPV if they have anything worth watching on.

All the big cards are PPV on DAZN.

reminds me i have to cancel my free trial

[Ruthless-RKO]

Now they just give you a 7 day free trial.

Remember they did a full month of you bought PPV

[Coco]

Quality night of boxing, the Smith v Buatsi was the best in terms of excitement

I reckon we can see where Bakole and Zhang are in the bigger picture

Sheeraz looks short of world class

Bert and Biv were close enough again, number 3 would be good, I reckon at 40 Bert is just on the slide

[Boxerbeetle]

That was an epic, I thought it was the right result, but I wasn't scoring it rbr so not 100% sure. Bivol dominated the start and the end and seemed to go to sleep a bit in the middle. I guess the optics of the first fight was that Berb was moving him around the ring a lot, despite his superior punch output and that this was less the case this time, especially in the last few rounds.

Quick question though.. has DAZN got all of the Queensbury fights now, as well as the Matchroom ones? I don't subscribe currently and £24 p/m seems a lot to me, but if it's the case that they have a monopoly on our 2 biggest promoters, plus a bunch of other stuff, £120 for a years sub starts to sound reasonable, despite the outlay. Is all the Saudi stuff PPV though?

Sky look poor these days, and I suppose I could get the occasional NOWTV 24hr pass thing and treat it as a PPV if they have anything worth watching on.

All the big cards are PPV on DAZN.

reminds me i have to cancel my free trial

I cancelled mine straight after the show yesterday. The monthly subscription is such a ripoff considering the high number of PPVs they put on (must actually be higher than Sky in their PPV pomp?) and the lack of other content. I'm honestly amazed they have any regular subscribers tbh.

[forcefraser]

Boxing is such a subjective sport. I thought Bivol edged the first fight, but can see how some had it for Beterbiev

Last night though I just cannot make an argument for Beterbiev winning the fight.

Bivol was outstanding. From rounds 8 to 11 in particular it was some of the sweetest boxing I've ever seen

The way Beterbiev patted Bivol on the back and smiled at the bell, he knew he'd lost that fight

Benevidez v Bivol or Beterbiev would be immense.