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Eddie Hearn makes shocking revelation in explosive interview after 'disgusting' Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol result

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Published 12:00 13 Oct 2024 GMT+1

Eddie Hearn makes shocking revelation in explosive interview after 'disgusting' Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol result

Hearn was furious.

Tom Jenkins

Tom Jenkins

Eddie Hearn has slammed the majority decision win for Artur Beterbiev over Dmitry Bivol on Saturday night and revealed that the Russian's corner knew he had won before the result.

Beterbiev handed Bivol his first-ever professional defeat and became the first undisputed light-heavyweight champion of the four-belt era.

Both fighters came into the bout flawless, with Bivol boasting a legendary win over Canelo Alvarez and reigning as WBA champion since 2017.

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Beterbiev also came in undefeated but sports an incredible record of never going the full distance in a fight, with all his opponents falling to a knockout blow.

Despite it being tipped as one of the fights of the ages, not everyone was happy with the result as Eddie Hearn slammed the decision claiming Bivol was 'robbed' of victory.

"How can we not talk about what just happened in the ring? Do we just want to forget about it," he explained.

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"We forget that in one of the biggest fights of our generation, the most important fight in Dmitry Bivol's life, you give him four rounds in that fight.

"It's absolutely disgusting, you heard the whole corner in the tenth round, they said 'You have to knock him out to win this fight'. They got in the ring and stood backed up to their corner, they knew Artur Beterbiev had lost this fight."

Hearn also revealed that Beterbiev had found out he won the fight prior to the scorecard announcement, which should never happen in top level boxing.

"Then the word gets around that Artur Beterbiev had won a majority decision. I'm absolutely baffled and disgusted of a scorecard of 116 to 112. 115-113 I don't like it," he added.

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Bivol vs Beterbiev- Getty
Bivol vs Beterbiev- Getty

"Eight-four to Artur Beterbiev, you want to give him [Dmitry Bivol] four rounds, he boxed beautifully in there tonight."

Former professional boxer Tony Bellew also agreed with hearn that Bivol should have emerged victorious.

He wrote on X: "I've got Bivol winning that! The last round was so close again but I just feel Bivol landed the better shots all night long.. Great combinations, Great fight. Beterbiev was outstanding! Nearly 40 years old and he's finishing fights as strong as he did when he was 20! Well done to both warriors."

Featured Image Credit: Getty/DAZN

Topics: Boxing, Eddie Hearn, Canelo Alvarez, Tony Bellew

Tom Jenkins
Tom Jenkins

Tom Jenkins is a Social Editor and Journalist for SPORTBible. Specialises in Football and F1 but has experience covering a variety of sports such as MMA, Boxing and Cricket. Suffers weekly as an Evertonian.

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