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wait why are people bickering about the scores?
zurdo won 2 and 3, but neither was very convincing, and he may have stolen the 10th... possibly. other than that, he was walked down by the smaller man, couldn't land shit, and had sweat flying off his head from bivol's shots any time he forced an exchange. so 118-110 or 117-111 is about as good a scorecard as you can get for this fight.
he looked spectacular. i think he made zurdo realize really quickly that despite being smaller, he can crack well enough, and it made ramirez fight a lot more cautiously than we've seen in the past. and considering his style is to basically walk people down into the ropes and fuck them up, bivol basically took away all of his weapons. it was awesome watching the guy who looked 2 weightclasses smaller control the center of the ring.
when zurdo got bivol on the ropes, they had a fight, both landing. when bivol walked him down and pushed him to the ropes, it was a beatdown.
i was sort of nervous for bivol to get check hooked, because he keeps his left hand really low... but ramirez just couldn't time it, or see it. in fact, the few times that he tried to right hook him late in the fight, bivol landed his own, crisper left hook on the inside.
a glorious performance, i hope beterbiev folds yarde double quick and they put this one together. i can't imagine a better fight than bivol vs beterbiev in 2023.
zurdo won 2 and 3, but neither was very convincing, and he may have stolen the 10th... possibly. other than that, he was walked down by the smaller man, couldn't land shit, and had sweat flying off his head from bivol's shots any time he forced an exchange. so 118-110 or 117-111 is about as good a scorecard as you can get for this fight.
he looked spectacular. i think he made zurdo realize really quickly that despite being smaller, he can crack well enough, and it made ramirez fight a lot more cautiously than we've seen in the past. and considering his style is to basically walk people down into the ropes and fuck them up, bivol basically took away all of his weapons. it was awesome watching the guy who looked 2 weightclasses smaller control the center of the ring.
when zurdo got bivol on the ropes, they had a fight, both landing. when bivol walked him down and pushed him to the ropes, it was a beatdown.
i was sort of nervous for bivol to get check hooked, because he keeps his left hand really low... but ramirez just couldn't time it, or see it. in fact, the few times that he tried to right hook him late in the fight, bivol landed his own, crisper left hook on the inside.
a glorious performance, i hope beterbiev folds yarde double quick and they put this one together. i can't imagine a better fight than bivol vs beterbiev in 2023.