Beterbiev vs. Bivol was supposed to be a big night for boxing, instead all anyone could talk about was judging. Peter Klein expresses his frustration about this latest boxing controversy.
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00:00The boxing world stunned, well not stunned, but Beterbiev ends up getting a majority decision win over Dimitri Bival and it's frustrating because we talk about like, oh, boxing can't get out of its way, boxing can't get out of its way, boxing can't get out of its way.
00:30And you Google it today, and like, all week, and I don't think I was like, I don't think I fell for the hype or anything like that, I think that this is just a, like, I looked at this fight as one that was a long time coming, and it was a fight of two guys who are at the top of this weight class right now, finally meeting each other in still, even though advanced age a little bit, still toward the peak of their prime.
00:59And so like, this was, I was talking all week about how this could be the start of a classic rivalry, and this is going to launch both of these guys into another level of superstardom and launch the winner probably into a top three or four spot in the pound-for-pound rankings right now.
01:13And instead, coming out of this fight, you Google it, and top stories right now, Dimitri Bival's team expresses their frustration following Beterbiev fight, Roy Jones Jr. reveals his exact score.
01:25Turkey Alashik must tell Arthur Beterbiev that Dimitri Bival rematch must happen.
01:32Um, all of these things.
01:35And oh, why, this wasn't a robbery.
01:37Did the judges get the scores right?
01:39All of these different things.
01:41Um, these scores rattled me.
01:43We must get a rematch.
01:45I feel empty coming off of this.
01:47It is so boxing that you have what should have been one of the fights and one of the like tentpole moments of the year, and instead now we're talking about judging, we're talking about controversy, we're talking about all these things that boxing just can't get away from.
02:01And it's so incredibly frustrating to come out of this whole build and have that be the thing that ends up doing this.
02:13And so I, um, I think that boxing has come a real long way in the last few years, in terms of the matchmaking that we are getting.
02:23And we can certainly question how we are getting there based off of Turkey and Turkey Alashik and Saudi Arabia and all of that.
02:31But we have got to a pretty good spot, I think, with this group.
02:35And so with this sports story right now.
02:38And so when these things come up, it's just a reminder that we still have a long way to go.
02:42Like you have this, you have like Usyk and Fury are fighting in December, and it's for the unified championships, but not undisputed because we had to strip a guy and give it to another dude over there.
02:55And then you have like big fight controversy again.
02:58We can't keep doing this in boxing.
03:00I don't think, again, I don't think this is going to be the death of boxing or anything like that, but it does kind of halt some momentum and just kind of harshens the mellow a little bit for everything that was going on.