"RIP Mr. Smoke Weed" 6/18 ESPN: Artur Beterbiev vs Joe Smith Jr (WBC/WBO/IBF Light Heavyweight Titles)

Who Wins?

  • Beterbiev KO-TKO-DQ

    Votes: 27 79.4%

  • Smith KO-TKO-DQ

    Votes: 4 11.8%

  • Beterbiev-Smith Draw

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Beterbiev Decision

    Votes: 3 8.8%

  • Smith Decision

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    34
  • Poll closed .
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i think he avoids enough that the ones he eats wont reach his limit fast enough to get him out. im envisioning him kinda bytching up like how loma did against teo. a frustrating fight that hurts his legacy but still goes the distance due to ring generalship.

i think smith kinda cooperated with his ass whooping because he was flustered. smith could have at least boxed around to stretch it out but he got too scared. canelo is not going out like that.
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My thing is..from how you seeing it, if Canelo gets that brave, he gets hurt in ways his fans haven't seen since the lesser Cotto almost stopped him.
 
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NEW YORK – Joe Smith Jr.’s longtime promoter applauded Artur Beterbiev’s superb performance Saturday night.

As precise as the powerful Beterbiev was with his punches against Smith, Joe DeGuardia nevertheless noticed that the unbeaten IBF/WBC/WBO light heavyweight champion continued to land shots on the back of Smith’s head. Smith’s team asked referee Harvey Dock to be mindful of Beterbiev’s prohibited rabbit punches prior to their 12-round, 175-pound title unification bout at Madison Square Garden’s Hulu Theater.

Dock warned Beterbiev for hitting Smith behind his head with 1:20 to go in the second round. Beterbiev appeared to land several right hands to the back of Smith’s head in the first round, and the final punch with which Beterbiev connected caught Smith behind his head.



“I’ve never seen Joe hurt like that,” DeGuardia told BoxingScene.com. “And again, you know, obviously I give Beterbiev credit. He’s a real fighter and a skilled, precise fighter. But we spoke to the referee beforehand. We didn’t like the idea of shots on the back of the head. We were concerned about that. I mean, I saw the last punch was on the back of the head. I saw a couple before. I know the referee warned him once, but you know, look, all in all, you can’t take anything away from Beterbiev. He’s a great fighter.”

Montreal’s Beterbiev (18-0, 18 KOs) sent Smith (28-4, 22 KOs), of Mastic, New York, to the canvas with right hands very late in the first round and again 38 seconds into the second round. The first right hand that dropped Smith landed on the top of his head, whereas the second right that floored him connected to the side of his head.

Beterbiev blasted Smith with a left uppercut and a right uppercut before his right hand landed to the back of Smith’s head and wobbled him with 45 seconds remaining in the second round. Smith remained on his feet after taking those three shots, yet that’s when Dock determined Smith shouldn’t continue.

“We knew going into the fight you’ve got two punchers and anything could happen quickly,” DeGuardia said. “A lot of analysts said, and they had a right, whoever’s gonna hit first and get that right shot in first, you know, could set the whole fight. And that’s really what happened. I think if Joe lands one of his punches or bombs, it’s a different story. But Beterbiev landed. You know, that’s it.”

The 37-year-old Beterbiev became the first fighter to conventionally stop Smith in a professional bout. The first technical-knockout loss of Smith’s career came in August 2010, when the former WBO champion couldn’t continue in the fourth round against Eddie Caminero due to a broken jaw.
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DeGuardia: Beterbiev Was Hitting To The Back Of The Head; We Were Concerned About That

NEW YORK – Joe Smith Jr.’s longtime promoter applauded Artur Beterbiev’s superb performance Saturday night. As precise as the powerful Beterbiev was with his punches against Smith, Joe DeGuardia nevertheless noticed that the unbeaten IBF/WBC/WBO light heavyweight champion continued to land shots...
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Vito Mielnicki To Fight Joe Eli Hernandez On Garcia-Benavidez Undercard 7/30

BY KEITH IDEC
Published Mon Jun 20, 2022, 05:25 PM EDT
Vito Mielnicki Jr. has an opponent for his July 30 fight in Brooklyn.

BoxingScene.com has learned that the 20-year-old welterweight will meet Mexico’s Joe Eli Hernandez on the Danny Garcia-Jose Benavidez Jr. undercard at Barclays Center. The bout between Mielnicki and Hernandez could be scheduled for eight or 10 rounds and will mark Mielnicki’s second fight with head trainer Raul “Chino” Rivas in his corner.

Mielnicki (11-1, 7 KOs) has won three straight fights since Philadelphia’s James Martin upset him by majority decision 14 months ago in Los Angeles. The Roseland, New Jersey native most recently out-pointed Dan Karpency (9-5-1, 4 KOs) unanimously in an eight-rounder that was part of the Errol Spence Jr.-Yordenis Ugas undercard April 16 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

Mielnicki was supposed to meet Martin (8-3-1, 0 KOs) in an immediate rematch last July 31 at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. Martin came in 4½ pounds overweight, however, and Mielnicki instead stopped 11th-hour replacement Noah Kidd in the second round.

Hernandez lost an eight-round unanimous decision to unbeaten Reshat Mati in his most recent fight. Staten Island’s Mati (12-0, 7 KOs) won all eight rounds, 80-72, on each scorecard against Hernandez on the Katie Taylor-Amanda Serrano undercard April 30 at Madison Square Garden in New York.

The 25-year-old Hernandez (12-2, 10 KOs) had won 10 straight fights, nine by knockout, before Mati beat him.

The July 30 card will feature Garcia’s first fight since Spence beat him by unanimous decision in their 12-round welterweight title fight in December 2020 at AT&T Stadium. Philadelphia’s Garcia (36-3, 21 KOs), a former champion in the 140-pound and 147-pound divisions, also will make his debut at the junior middleweight maximum of 154 pounds when he battles Benavidez (27-1-1, 18 KOs) in Showtime’s main event.

Phoenix’s Benavidez boxed to a 10-round majority draw with Argentina’s Francisco Torres (17-3-1, 5 KOs) in his last fight. That November 13 bout at Footprint Center in Phoenix was Benavidez’s first fight in three years.

Brooklyn heavyweight Adam Kownacki (20-2, 15 KOs) will encounter Turkey’s Ali Demirezen (16-1, 12 KOs) in Showtime’s co-feature July 30. Kownacki will try to rejuvenate his career after back-to-back technical-knockout losses to Robert Helenius (31-3, 20 KOs).

Showtime’s tripleheader will begin July 30 with a 10-round bout between unbeaten junior welterweight contender Gary Antuanne Russell (15-0, 15 KOs), of Capitol Heights, Maryland, and Cuba’s Rances Barthelemy (29-1-1, 15 KOs, 1 NC).
 
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While watching the heavier weight class pummel each other is always entertaining, I find that the elite lower weight fighters so much more interesting and entertaining. Alot of the heavier weights really is like watch brutes fight, slow pace, not much action. Watching the Beterbiev fight, his hands are so heavy when he knocks smith down, it doesnt even look like he hits him that hard. Shyt is wild. But then you watch someone like Inoyu connect and it looks and feels like tornado just destroyed the soul of his opponent. The lower weights have more entertaining knock outs now. It wasnt always like that
 
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