By: Sean Crose
WBA gentle heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol put his belt and his undefeated 21-0 report on the road Saturday in Saudi Arabia when he battled the broadly unknown 23-1 Lyndon Arthur in a struggle scheduled for 12. Both males seemed sharp within the first, although Bivol dominated the tempo. By the second, Bivol was already tagging Arthur with energy photographs. By the tip of the around the defending champion was actually placing his punches collectively. Bivol hit his man shortly and at will within the third. The struggle was changing into a one sided beatdown.
Bivol continued to bang away within the fourth, as Arthur was on the lookout for a clear shot he couldn’t appear to land. Arthur was in a position to assert himself within the fifth. Was it sufficient, although? Bivol went again to dominating Arthur within the sixth. The seventh was basically extra of the identical. Aruthur continued to carry out gamely within the eighth, touchdown to Bivol’s physique. Yet Bivol labored to the physique himself. Indeed, Bivol went on to make straightforward work of his sport challenger within the ninth.
As expert as he was – and he was nothing if not expert – Bivol wouldn’t perform a constant assault that may finish the struggle early. And so, by the tenth spherical, the struggle appeared practically stagnant in it personal unusual approach. As if he knew he is perhaps disappointing the fan base, Bivol stepped in and put Arthur down with a blistering mixture on the bell ending the eleventh. Bivol tried closing the present early within the twelfth and last wound, however the gutsy Arthur was in a position to keep standing till the ultimate bell.
Needless to say Bivol was awarded a unanimous resolution win, courtesy of the judges.
