Good job Bivol finished strong because it would have been a robberyI’m happy as a pig in slop at that decision. It had the air of a routine defence for Bivol and it was a pretty uneventful fight but a huge sense of foreboding descended on me at the final bell as Canelo raised his arm and saluted the crowd. Thankfully the judges gave the right decision albeit by way too narrow a margin.
Fuck a rematch, Bivol v Beterbiev is the only fight to make. We never got to see Kovalev v Stevenson so to miss out on this too would be a tragedy for the LHW division.