WBA title holder Yevgeny Tishchenko considers the victory of the world champion according to WBC, IBF and WBO light heavyweight as confident Artur Beterbiev against the Briton Callum Smith.
On Saturday in Canada, Beterbiev defeated Smith by seventh-round technical knockout and defended the WBC, IBF and WBO light heavyweight world titles. The 38-year-old Russian now has 20 victories (20 by KO) and no defeats. Bivol, who has 22 victories in 22 fights, holds the WBA championship belt. At the end of December in Saudi Arabia, Bivol beat Briton Lyndon Arthur by unanimous decision.
— In general, the fight went as I expected, that Arthur would win this fight with an advantage. But there were episodes where Smith attacked successfully. In the fourth round, Arthur had a prolonged attack against the ropes, then during the next round and a half he took a break, it wasn’t entirely clear. This is because he was functionally tired or realized he could finish the fight and didn’t want to finish Smith too early.
In general, he worked competently, clearly his left hand was very good. Direct blows constantly hit, disturbed the opponent, did not allow him to concentrate, tune in and constantly worried Callum. It was quite effective. Beterbiev hit when the opponent was not expecting it and the accuracy percentage was very high. And the episode with the end of the fight was a good moment, everything coincided, he hit him exactly and realized that the opponent was in a groggy state, after that he did not let go and put the matter to rest,” Tishchenko quotes “Championship.”
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