Teddy Atlas sides with Dmitry Bivol in rematch with Artur Beterbiev
Legendary boxing coach Teddy Atlas offered his professional perception and prediction for the upcoming Artur Beterbiev vs Dmitry Bivol rematch on February 22 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The highest two light-heavyweights on this planet first met on October 12 within the first undisputed conflict at 175lbs in a four-belt period.
The extra aggressive, advancing Beterbiev gained through combined choice towards Bivol with scores of 116-112, 115-113, 114-114.
As their rematch quick approaches, the 68-year-old boxing coach from Staten Island took a glance forward to what’s assured to be one other thrilling, shut contest.
Firstly, Teddy expressed his disappointment that the Russian born Artur Beterbiev was compelled to take a Canadian passport as a way to maintain his world title.
“I don’t suppose that Politics ought to have been injected. The man’s a fighter. The man’s preventing for his household; he’s preventing for his beliefs, he’s preventing for his profession, he’s preventing for his residing. I don’t suppose it’s truthful that he had something imposed on him. There’s sufficient imposed on you once you’re moving into a hoop. You’re getting right into a squared circle, right into a chamber of reality, that fairly frankly, these individuals making these choices have by no means been in that form of place to face the form of truths {that a} fighter faces in a single evening. They haven’t confronted that in an entire profession of politics, an entire profession of choice making.
“He himself hasn’t dedicated any crimes. He himself hasn’t achieved something towards humanity. He himself has not spit out any beliefs of something that’s dangerous to individuals. He’s solely achieved one factor: put together himself to get within the ring and face whoever is the person that’s in entrance of him so he can obtain what he desires to attain, which is recently to be undisputed champion, which is to achieve success, which is to prevail, which is to be a man that makes his household proud and takes care of his household, and no matter else it’s that speaks to a person like this. I feel he’s a prideful man. Why does he should have any sanctions imposed on him? Due to what’s happening in his nation? I didn’t see him go and choose up a rifle and go and take any stances that Putin, or whoever it’s that’s operating that nation, has made a stance on.”
New Yorker Atlas then previewed the Beterbiev-Bivol rematch, “The rationale I picked Bivol to win the primary battle it’s the identical purpose I’m gonna choose him now. Everybody thinks that Beterbiev is the man that has the higher hand within the psychological space as a result of he’s so mentally robust and mentally centered, and the opposite man [Bivol] is extra skillful athletically.
“However Bivol is the man who’s mentally collectively, who’s mentally robust. That man is mentally robust. That man is decided, that man is a monster. I feel Bivol is a monster in his thoughts, too. I feel he’s mentally robust in his thoughts, too, and I feel that he’s realized issues from the final battle.
“He bought solutions to questions that he didn’t have the solutions to moving into. He wasn’t one hundred percent positive that he may deal with the boogeyman. No one’s ever positive. No one. Irrespective of the way you mission. And he projected a stoic projection as a result of he’s robust mentally, however inside I do know he nonetheless needed to surprise ‘can I deal with the boogeyman’. He bought the reply. Now he is aware of he could be in there with the boogeyman. I feel that internally it should make a distinction with him, the place he’ll be extra constant in sure areas, the place he might have moved an excessive amount of and allowed Beterbiev to have the ability to push him again and steal ends of rounds by preserving him defensive. Now he’ll be capable of get a superb combination of motion and punching. I’ll go along with Bivol within the rematch.”
