RBR ***Official*** Sherdog Sanctioned Beterbiev vs C. Smith 10 PM ET 1/13 ESPN / ESPN+

Winner?

  • Beterbiev

    Votes: 25 80.6%
  • Smith

    Votes: 6 19.4%

  • Total voters
    31
  • Poll closed .
I have a lot more respect for Yarde after seeing that. I thought that Beterbiev might have been slowing down, but he looks better than ever.
I don't think he's slowing down. Every now and then he has a performance where he looks a bit human but then he'll come back with one of his best performances. People have been saying he might be slowing down for like 5 years now
 
Yarde was always a tougher stylistic matchup for Biev than Callum Smith. Yarde is athletic as hell and a little awkward. The people saying Callum would put up a better showing than Yarde were smoking something.
Indeed. It's funny because I said all of this before the fight. That Yarde is the superior athlete compared to Callum. Much more explosive, sharper, has lots of dog in him, etc. There's one dude here that was acting like I was the one smoking something by saying that lol.
 
Meh. Was hoping for a better scrap. Beterbiev got the job done but I hoped we'd see more of a war.

The Moloney fight was fight of the night.
 
To beat Beterbiev, I think you have to be more of a brawler type. His fight with Yarde was more competitive although still lopsided. Dancing around and trying to outbox him won't work. You have to hurt him early or just outgun him on the inside.

Benavidez might be the only guy stylistically that could pull that off.
 
Literally stole his soul... Mortal Combat stuff right here
 
One thing I hate about ESPN's interviews with losing fighters is that they spend the entire time trying to get the loser to blow the winner while they sometimes spew hyperbole in their face.
 
Wonder if Smith's team will press the testing issues. His brother looked kind of pissed & was mugging Biev a bit.
 
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