WBA gentle heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol says the important thing for him to defeat IBF/WBC/WBO champ Artur Beterbiev is to make him uncomfortable, as usually wanted to win their struggle this summer time.
Bivol (22-0, 11 KOs) notes that Beterbiev (20-0, 20 KOs) has proven a “weak facet” in a few of his fights, and he plans on exploiting that once they meet in Saudi Arabia.
For Bivol to take advantage of the weaknesses that he’s seen in Beterbiev, he’s going to need to maintain from getting knocked out early as a result of he’s going to be on him.
Bivol strikes properly, however he can not run for twelve rounds to maintain Beterbiev from trapping him repeatedly in every spherical. He’s not that kind of a mover.
Bivol is sweet at backing straight up, however he’s much less efficient going facet to facet to flee strain. He hasn’t had to do this throughout his profession as a result of the one good fighter he’s confronted is Canelo Alvarez, who was a lot smaller than him.
“All of us have a weak facet, and all of us have a very good facet,” mentioned Dmitry Bivol to Matchroom Boxing, speaking about his undisputed conflict with Artur Beterbiev this summer time.
“Even him, we noticed a number of the moments that wasn’t good,” Bivol continued about Beterbiev. I “simply must create as many moments as I can to make it not snug fo him, and I shouldn’t let him create moments that aren’t snug for me. That’s it.
“We don’t have to consider it an excessive amount of. Simply do your work, and I’ve to do my work. I do know I can win if I do my work properly. Yeah, he does numerous strain, and generally I exploit this pressuring on my sparring,” mentioned Bivol about Beterbiev being a very good strain fighter.
“It takes numerous effort. It’s not straightforward to strain on a regular basis, and, in fact, it’s not straightforward to maneuver ahead, too. I consider it’s the toughest check,” mentioned Bivol about his struggle with Beterbiev.
