Dmitry_Bivol__Russia__vs_Craig_Richards__England____Boxing_Fight_Highlights_HD(360p)
Dmitry_Bivol__Russia__vs_Craig_Richards__England____Boxing_Fight_Highlights_HD(360p)
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00:00Here is the reigning, defending, undefeated WBA light heavyweight champion of the world,
00:08Dmitry Bivol!
00:14Craig Spider-Richards!
00:20Richards!
00:22I think he's got a real shot at this.
00:24Well again, you're seeing the height there, but Craig Richards is probably about 6'4",
00:28he's one of the tallest light heavyweights in the world.
00:30Dmitry Bivol is 6'4", he's not a big Craig Richards.
00:33He faces...
00:35...the 9-1 underdog, Romp Home.
00:37Giovanni Stratholme.
00:39I think that's what we have to expect from Richards.
00:41Back foot, he's moving the same way.
00:43Body shot downstairs there.
00:45Bivol cutting him off, trying to close the distance here.
00:49We see Richards stepping up.
00:51Stepping up from British Championship level to World Championship.
00:55They've certainly got the game plan, talking to Peter Sims, his trainer this week.
00:59Makes them look like they're doing so much weight, just by pressure.
01:01Set the odds as well.
01:03Will Bivol...
01:05The front foot stop, Nick, what you mentioned is very...
01:07...set for him, become a positive for him.
01:09Yeah, what Richards needs to be careful of, Nick, is just...
01:13...as well, if you look at Bivol, he uses that...
01:15...nice jab to the body from Richards there.
01:17When you're on the receiving end of that...
01:19...circling to the left-hand side.
01:21You're constantly thinking and overthinking, trying to keep...
01:23...a flash opportunity to land it.
01:25And he lands it with such force when he does so.
01:27It's certainly made him very confident.
01:29Bivol coming to his own, he pressures on the front foot.
01:31Defends coming forward.
01:33Doesn't bring it back to a responsible position, and he's in range.
01:35He will get caught over the right of it.
01:37Bivol jab going pretty effectively here in this second round.
01:39And so too did Bivol.
01:41He's getting his own jab.
01:43Oh my goodness me, he walked into that.
01:47Bivol makes them lunges, what he does.
01:49Jab, jab, jab.
01:51Long leavers, Craig Richards.
01:53He is well set for that full counter right hand.
01:55Just how many opportunities does he have?
01:57Put him straight back in his place.
01:59A little bit slow and a little bit low.
02:01It's a jab to the head.
02:05Everything for Richards.
02:07He's going to come off his jab.
02:09You're waiting too long, Craig, but this is the problem when you've got...
02:11...a puncher's reputation, and then your opponent feels...
02:13As he's coming in, Bivol.
02:15Just backing off and circling in circles.
02:18His own waistband.
02:20It's a jab, down, back.
02:22Just push it out.
02:24He's looking for the right hand over the top there.
02:26Bivol feels that power.
02:28It gives them the extra time that they need to go to work.
02:30Delaying the inevitable for me, for Bivol.
02:36Six foot mark, and he's doing so well, Bivol,
02:38to try and out-jab Richards.
02:40So clever, Bivol.
02:44There's the left hook again.
02:46He's got the extra time that he needs to get to work.
02:49Clever again there.
02:51Good job.
02:53He's got through with the follow-up right now.
02:55The success that he's having.
02:57To Bivol's right hand.
02:59As Chris has just mentioned there, very clever of Bivol.
03:01Here in the second round, Bivol.
03:05Talked about the mistakes he makes at...
03:09It's all too easy at the moment for Bivol.
03:12Opened up right hand.
03:14There for Richards, but Bivol is straight back on him
03:16and pushes him back up to the ropes.
03:18That's only picked up.
03:20He'll tee you up, he'll set you up a couple of times
03:22with the left hook, so you'd expect it,
03:24and then bang, the right hand will come over the top.
03:26The domestic level that he won't get away with here.
03:28He just got away with one there, Richards.
03:30Especially the shots are not necessarily power shots,
03:33but the fast and the quite explosive.
03:35Finished him off with a left hook.
03:37Good job from Bivol.
03:40Against a strong defensive boxer like Dimitri Bivol.
03:43Dimitri Bivol threw at him after he landed those two right hands.
03:49Ten seconds, corners.
03:52He's always just ready to just pull, come straight back at you,
03:55and he often counters in combinations when you do...
03:57Bivol, as I said, he's blocking with high hands,
03:59he's blocking with his hands up.
04:01He's got to keep his composure now.
04:03Bivol does land it as well, I think,
04:05in terms of Richards going to the body.
04:07I think you're absolutely right, Paul.
04:09It's hard to see how Richards...
04:13Good job there from Bivol.
04:22I think as well, to the untrained eye,
04:24this has looked like a bit of a rambling.
04:30Bivol just start reaching in and see if you can pick him up.
04:38Good job from Richards.
04:43Good job.
04:46At the moment, Bivol is handling that jab
04:48pretty effectively.
04:56Richards is going to have to start changing things up.
04:58There are other opportunities there,
05:00but Richards not able to exploit them.
05:04He's a guy with a discipline of Dimitri Bivol.
05:07You're not going to get more than maybe one.
05:13Just a few moments ago, we can see it here,
05:15because Bivol inches his front foot into range,
05:17but he's leaning back over his...
05:24Richards is just leaning slightly further forward,
05:26and that just magnifies the impact of the jab with Bivol.
05:30...the pressure that he applies,
05:32the way he just changes the levels of the lead hand position.
05:34As in this fight, I believe he's been very guilty in the past
05:37of just doing enough, which is what he's done
05:39in the previous five rounds, in my opinion.
05:42...as we go into the sixth round.
05:44It's a formula that works for...
05:48Yeah, and there's four counts of right hand, though,
05:50before that.
05:52Bivol being backed up in this fight.
06:00...to range, which is, as I've just been saying,
06:02is what Bivol likes to do.
06:04He'll come in and he'll land it.
06:06Look for the right hand there, and it didn't land.
06:09The problem is, when he throws it out as a single,
06:11that's when he's vulnerable to the counter,
06:13because Bivol, he just comes over...
06:15And the shot, and then he'll back off straightaway.
06:22Switch downstairs.
06:23...where he is in range in relation to it.
06:25The less you throw it, the more the element of surprise...
06:27That type of shot and that type of advice from the corner
06:29is good advice.
06:31So this is it, isn't it? I mean...
06:39Bivol going for it here.
06:47He had the last word there, Richards,
06:49but Bivol...
06:51Richards is not winning this one on points.
06:53There's no way.
06:55Bivol's also good, again,
06:57because of his old amateur pedigree.
07:01Managed to get through here,
07:03and that's when he could be vulnerable,
07:05because Richards...
07:09He was doing this earlier, but certainly got through
07:11with the second time he landed it.
07:13Bivol is comfortable and in control at the moment.
07:17He lands a jab, he'll knock the head back of Richards,
07:19then he'll back off.
07:21Bivol...
07:23Nice stuff there.
07:25But did take one back as well, Richards tried.
07:29As I said, I was talking about...
07:31He'll admire it, and it's just highlighting what he does well.
07:33That's what we were trying to talk about in the first couple of rounds.
07:35You've got it in your artillery.
07:37Let it go and do it.
07:39This accent and his language.
07:41Listen, I think the advice
07:43from that corner...
07:45He wants the W,
07:47and if he can get it, just racking up the rounds like this.
07:49He's certainly second-best here,
07:51but you wouldn't say even so that he lands Bivol.
07:53He's landing three or four from Bivol there,
07:55but mainly they both headhunted.
07:57Stiff jab there again.
07:59See if that changes things up a little bit,
08:01but on with you guys.
08:03This position he's in now, Richards,
08:05the champion.
08:07Two and four, and he's being the aggressor,
08:09and he's dictating the pace as he is now,
08:11and that's been the difference.
08:13No more on the back foot,
08:15no more circling around in circles.
08:17Of distance, and the way he glides in and out of range.
08:19He waits to see what you've got,
08:21and when he knows it's safe to do so,
08:23he'll have a go at it.
08:25Richards has had some success.
08:27Bivol is straight back on him immediately.
08:29He can't just wait
08:31and let Bivol dictate,
08:33which he has done for the previous seven rounds.
08:35One of the two of them,
08:37he's better until they meet.
08:39He's the best in the world by a stretch.
08:41I just think he'll criticise himself
08:43when he watches it back.
08:45I think he'll feel like he could have done it...
08:47You can hear Peter Simms now say,
08:49come on, you've got to let your hands go,
08:51and we haven't seen it.
08:53He may look like he's there,
08:55but actually he's far, far harder too.
08:59There's a lot missing.
09:01One of a really good group of British light heavyweights,
09:03just bubbling under at the moment.
09:05And Richards, he's boxing well.
09:07He's just as we say.
09:11You've done very, very well in the performance,
09:13but I know you're better than that.
09:15And I think...
09:17His back hasn't touched the rubs once.
09:19He hasn't been near them.
09:21That's probably the closest he's been so far.
09:23But of course, neither of them
09:25have really tested that.
09:27There's a lot of criticism when this fight was made
09:29that Richards will be well out of it.
09:31He's losing the battle in terms of
09:33the volume of shots that he's landing.
09:35He's landing good singles.
09:37It's probably been his best round, in my opinion, so far.
09:39The right hand of Craig Richards
09:41has been up.
09:43He's circled around him well, didn't he?
09:45He's keeping his centre.
09:51Craig Richards is the man
09:53that needs to do something a little bit different.
09:57And here I can do both the right and the left.
10:27The counter comes in, but Bivol again responds.
10:29He's been neglected all night for me.
10:57I'm not being critical of Richards.
10:59I'm just saying, he'll watch this back
11:01and if he doesn't get the decision...
11:27He's in a firefight here.
11:37He's not been overawed at any stage.
11:39He's not looked majorly hurt at any stage.
11:41This is decent from Richards.
11:45Richards showing that greater sense
11:47of urgency now, pressing forward.
11:49There goes for the body again.
11:53Looking to finish the round strongly.
11:57He's got the right hand.
12:01But also, Paul,
12:03I'm with Chris on this. I think he'll take a lot.
12:05He's had his success as well.
12:07Lovely from Bivol.
12:09Again, the flashy finish in the last few seconds of the round.
12:11He judges it.
12:13His management.
12:15It's actually a positive win.
12:17He's in here with a world champion.
12:19He tries to do just enough and he hasn't done enough
12:21for the last few rounds.
12:23He's got a crystal palace in South London.
12:31He's saying no urgency at all.
12:33He's just tucking up there, Bivol.
12:39Ethical work right from him.
12:45He's trying to learn that.
12:47Because at the midway point of this fight,
12:49Bivol had a big, big lead.
12:51It tells you what he thinks about the fight, Bivol.
12:53It tells you that he knows it.
12:55A really significant power punch tonight.
12:57To work.
12:59A case for Dimitri Bivol.
13:01Enough rounds in the middle.
13:03In the start, the first and the middle four rounds
13:05of this fight.
13:07Has really put on a very, very impressive
13:09performance defensively.
13:11To the final bell.
13:13It's levels in boxing,
13:15as we always say.
13:17Bivol does take it.
13:19And that'll do it.
13:21Well, Richards
13:23can certainly hold his head high at the end of that one.
13:25Because it will go to the three
13:27scoring judges.
13:29All three. For your winner,
13:31by unanimous decision,
13:33he's still undefeated.
13:35Dimitri Bivol.
13:37Dimitri Bivol.
13:39Bivol had put enough in the bank,
13:41but Richards pushed him so close.
13:43He and Peter Sims will go out of this one.