Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2015-06-12, fight not so exciting between Artur Beterbiev and Alexander Johnson: it gets two stars.The undefeated 2009 world amateur boxing champion Artur Beterbiev entered this fight with a pro boxing record of 8-0-0 (8 KOs=100%) and he is ranked as the No.6 light heavyweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Sergey Kovalev). In his last three bouts he beat Tavoris Cloud (=Cloud vs Beterbiev), Jeff Page Jr (=Beterbiev vs Page) and Gabriel Campillo (=Beterbiev vs Campillo).
His opponent, Alexander Johnson, has a record of 16-2-0 (7 knockouts) and he entered as the No.86 in the same weight class. He fought twice last year losing to Eleider Alvarez and defeating Henry Buchanan. Beterbiev vs Johnson is on the undercard of Erislandy Lara vs Delvin Rodriguez. Watch the video and rate this fight!
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Date: 2015-06-12
Where: UIC Pavilion, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Division: light heavyweight (175 lbs, 79.4 kg)
Beterbiev’s previous fight: Artur Beterbiev vs Gabriel Campillo
Beterbiev’s next fight: Artur Beterbiev vs Ezequiel Osvaldo Maderna
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Official video:
Official highlights
Another dominate showing
We will have to wait and see.
My “if I could have it my way” we would see Beterbiev taker on Stevenson. And if he won he could fight Kovalev in a unification fight.
But he got hit clean by a few shots.
If it had been someone with power that might be an issue. So I feel they will keep him in against not hitters for now.
Yvon Michel said there is no plans at all to pit Beterbiev against Stevenson, since he promotes them both :( I like Beterbiev’s patience, the other guy didn’t seem to have much of a chin though (well against Beterbiev, they all seem not to lol)
I have to be honest, I thought that Beterbiev would dismantle Johnson in a faster, more impressive fashion. Johnson showed his mettle, so no disrespect to him. I think that a Stevenson might be too soon for Beterbiev (taking into account what mattsnow81 pointed out regarding their common promoter). Perhaps Beterbiev should take a few more pro fights before stepping up against the tested elite.
I’m a quebecer, so the news for the GYM (Groupe Yvon Michel) are constantly circulating here. The problem is he’s got Stevenson, Alvarez and Beterbiev. He is reluctant to pit them against Kovale or Jean Pascal, another quebecer who has another promoter, INTERBOX.
And Beterbiev and Pascal have the same coach (Mark Ramsay)…
And Yvon Michel is so in love with Al Haymon that he made them all sign with him…
Yes, Michel is one of the promoter Haymon promised the moon to. It seems Golden Boy is not one of the gang, hence the 300 million lawsuit :P
A fight with several knock downs as expected. Johnson started very well with double jabs and being a south pawn complicated a little bit the fight for Artur. However, since Alex was not able to keep the distance he was nailed down by Artur who was very patient but very efficient till get the fight by knock out in the 7th round.
The final punch was in the tempo that is why it was so effective.
I like the way the american commentator says “Better-bee-ev”.