Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2018-03-03, nice fight between Dmitry Bivol and Sullivan Barrera: it gets three stars.The undefeated Wba light-Hw champion Dmitry Bivol entered this fight with a perfect boxing record of 12-0-0 (10 KOs=83%) and he is ranked as the No.12 light heavyweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Adonis Stevenson). He fought four times in 2017 winning over Robert Berridge (Bivol vs Berridge), Samuel Clarkson (Bivol vs Clarkson), Cedric Agnew (Bivol vs Agnew) and Trent Broadhurst (Dmitry Bivol vs Trent Broadhurst).
His opponent, Sullivan Barrera, has a record of 21-1-0 (14 knockouts) and he entered as the No.4 in the same weight class. He suffered his only loss when he faced former #1 Andre Ward in 2016 (Ward vs Barrera), after this bout he has won four fights beating Joe Smith Jr (Smith Jr vs Barrera) and Felix Valera in his last two (Sullivan Barrera vs Felix Valera). Bivol vs Barrera is valid for the WBA World light heavyweight title (Bivol’s first defense); undercard of Sergey Kovalev vs Igor Mikhalkin. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Date: 2018-03-03
Where: Madison Square Garden Theater, New York, USA
Division: light heavyweight (175 lbs, 79.4 kg)
Title: WBA World light heavyweight title
Bivol’s previous fight: Dmitry Bivol vs Trent Broadhurst
Barrera’s previous fight: Sullivan Barrera vs Felix Valera
Bivol’s next fight: Dmitry Bivol vs Isaac Chilemba
Barrera’s next fight: Sullivan Barrera vs Sean Monaghan
Bivol vs Barrera full fight video:
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Very entertaining fight and an excellent test for Bivol since he fought this time against to Barrera who is a qualified and experienced boxer. The bar was raised and anyhow, he proved to be the best of both. In spite of being a powerful puncher he posses outstanding fighting skills that fully neutralized the ones Barrera has. He out boxed Barrera during the whole fight because his quick hands and master moves winning all the previous rounds before obtaining the knock out in the last one. He is one of the big start in this tough category who has great chances to become the undisputed champion.
very complete fighter . also has youthful energy on his side. hard to beat for the next few years
It is surprising that Bivol did not pick up the continual head movement to the right of Barrerra earlier in the fight. A very tidy tight fighter and excellent counterpuncher. The right man won!!!
Bivol is a good fighter. He beat Berrera in every dimension of the fight. Hurt him multiple times from the 1st round onward. Really just broke him down. Impressive victory. I’m not sure though that he could beat Kovalev w/ that style. Or Stevenson. Perhaps he can take apart Jack. We’ll have to see how it goes in may. But these 4 are the main guys right now in that div.