“Before Saturday, the final bell in a Beterbiev fight always came early. The end of the twelfth round was a moment that eluded all, a point in time that moved forever away; a sort of bloody Zeno’s paradox where every aspiring Achilles might gain ground, only to give it back—before finally laying sprawled across it in varying states of trauma and consciousness. Thus, expectations for Beterbiev–Bivol, when they drifted toward carnage, were influenced primarily by Beterbiev and the reputation produced by twenty knockouts in twenty professional fights.”
Read The Good Left Undone: Artur Beterbiev Decisions Dmitrii Bivol to Become Undisputed on Hannibal Boxing.
In Between Rounds 