Artur Beterbiev vs Enrico Koelling | ON THIS DAY FREE FIGHT | Beterbiev's 1st Championship

the ivf vacant light heavyweight championship will be on the line better bf has been so effective rarely has he gone past the fourth round in his professional career the only time was back in 2015 against alexander johnson and for coaling he understands he's the underdog he's the challenger in this one with the type of pedigree that better bf comes in with ibf title is on the line at 175 again brian kenny teddy atlas and mark kriegel here top ranked boxing on espn teddy how are you good brian a few years removed but it's good to be with you again who knew we'd be back together if you're watching this fight you want to see how it ends by the way teddy i know it's tough in this day and age but pay close attention better be ev is known to just touch a guy and down another guy goes thank you appreciate that tip very much that's why i love being with you i learned something all the time he has surprising power teddy in that it doesn't seem to be explosive i'll roll back tapes and say how did that guy how did he not get that knock down anything he seems to hit people with is very very punishing he's calm measured and economically brutal no one's been past the eighth round i thought that question was to me but go ahead and take him off be my guest pronounce yourself you're here yeah he walks toward his man methodically patient takes his time again teddy i mentioned only 11-0 as a pro but again vastly experienced in the russian avatar system yeah he's been in the olympics matter of fact he's been in two of them 2012 2008 as you said representing russia and calling an experienced accomplished amateur too 2012 olympics representing his country his home country germany the thing here for me is will calling try to win now people are going to say teddy's run for the world title what do you mean is he going to try to win his style is to survive he's not a busy guy he puts those earmuffs on that peekable defense and he does that he blocks he survives he gets through rounds but if he's going to win here he's got to do more than that and if he does more than that he might get knocked out but he gives himself a chance to win what will you do mr calling collings says one of his best uh chances is that perhaps betcha bia will underestimate him i'm not sure that's a strategy or just wishful thinking yeah people in germany told colin you know you're crazy going to the states he's never been to the united states at all comes to fresno said you're going to fight better vf in the united states better bm does not think in those dimensions he thinks there's someone in front of me i'm going to go forward i'm going to hit them hard like that sharp right hand collin gives you opportunities when he puts those deer moves on he gets to the body better beer yeah maybe his corner will tell but that body is available to him also the uppercut you can split that guard and you can do one other thing you see that jab right right behind you you throw the right hand if you better bf you can blind them with the jab and then you can shoot the right hand right down the pipe 10 seconds oh he's doing some decent work here in the first round again the dangerous man is better bf poland doing decent work here in round one [Music] [Music] colin moving forward here with some success lands her right hand again federer biev is the favorite in the fight the man expected to rise toward the top and fill in the spot vacated by andre ward former world champion and after his two wars controversial fights with wars with sergey kovalev it's worth noting that this is for ward's old ibf belt fenerbia was the mandatory ward dismisses the notion that he retired as opposed to fight better bf as clickbait what's undeniable is that retirement at the age of 33 as a rich man was a better prospect more attractive prospect to him than facing betrayal and you can see colin have success can go in an active throw in his hands but better bf comes back and just lands two strong right hands he does have so much power again we just went to round one and we went to the corners bernardo as soon as here with the team and he was in the corner for polling bernardo what should we to keep moving not stay against the ropes and not give opportunities for better bf to tee off on him teddy do you think colin can be busy enough to keep to keep getting better before of course he can't brian but the question you guys are talking about a lot of different things and i'm listening to you but to me the only thing that matters is is you're going to take the risk that's inherent with winning and it's multiplied by 10 in this fight because if he opens up with this guy who's 11-0 with 11 knockouts there's a chance that he goes to the floor but if he doesn't well there's a chance he survives he goes 12 rounds but he loses what do you want victory or survival early in the round is definitely letting his hands go he goes up on brooks at this point but again just to lay it out better vf is the type of guy to be throwing five punch combinations explosive shots but he will hit you with one shot that you just don't see short chopping shot and will put you down well if he's going to hit him with one shot that he doesn't see he being the guy that doesn't see it calling it's going to be the right hand it's gonna be the jab that's gonna set it up the delivery system the blinding spot right on his eyes like that and then the right hand right right behind it to go in between that peekaboo guard goling figures his best chances are not in these rounds he's in the latter rounds where he has an edge and experiences going deep and fights too much to be taken out of him by then final second round two imagine the right hand to look for well better be looking to deliver that right hand right down the middle split the card that's not gonna do the job if the jab is there first the job might get done round three archer better biev and enrico colling the first of our two fights here tonight save mark center fresno california brian kennedy teddy atlas and mark kriegel teddy question with only six knockouts in 24 fights does colling have enough to keep betrayed off so he can get to those latter rounds no because he keeps his hands in his pockets i don't care if he had 25 knockouts he still wouldn't have enough because he doesn't move his hands colin's saying that and look i know what he is i know he's formidable he told us i'm a it's very european i'm a sportsman i want to see how i stand against the best and we're thinking hey kid that's not how it's done around here but that is the attitude got bothered a little bit with that left hook a little bit behind the air why'd he get caught he reached it with the right hand a little bit and calling which he doesn't do a lot he countered with that left hook only now against the ropes but he'll flash out a jab he landed at the scoring shot having a measure of success against better bf here in the first three rounds i tell you to craigle's question here's where the x factor the secret weapon can be calling can allow you to sleep you know if he doesn't go to sleep himself but by not being busy and not throwing many punches all of a sudden he drew a counter left hook before guess what better beer was caught by surprise teddy being a little hard on our sportsman also he is that he's that anomaly as a fighter he's a well-adjusted middle-class kid sounds like you bernardo azsuna was in the corner there to listen to pedophilia bernardo again mark ramsey wanted better bf to bury his offense he wants him to go downstairs bring down that high guard and then go upstairs with the right hand so he wants him to be a lot more active but not be predictable comes in probing behind the jab again if i'm better be if i'm in his corner i'm telling him one thing i'm telling him did you ever watch the filio stevenson years ago you were an olympian he was a three-time gold medalist three different olympics he used to catch him with one punch blind you with the jab straight right hand right down the middle that's there for pedophile against coleman and he just landed teddy like three top jabs before it's all i guess setting things up got to be your right hand right behind you and i don't mean jab then right hand i mean like good music i mean right hand right behind me in rhythm final seconds here round three holing fights back off the ropes as you see the patience of archer better being here in round three exceedingly disciplined fighters [Music] [Music] ground four scheduled for 12 for the ibf light heavyweight belt park tour of better biev coming in the favorite in this fight again world champion pulling an olympian but making his first trip to the us and so far making a good account of himself it seems now that nothing calling can do can hold off that to be up he can't establish any distance teddy [Applause] it's worth mentioning ryan that has received pre-flight encouragement from gsp george st pierre who texted him before the fight trust your instincts just win brother and stay away from the people who suck your energy that's the ufc yeah maybe if you can kick you have a chance i took that one person suck your energy fight week is uh is draining [Applause] i disagree ground four here better bf now lives in montreal with his wife and his four young children coming over from russia and now getting into the public consciousness and possibly with andre ward and his two big fights [Applause] right now i think it's a guy that i can't pronounce today but thank god i have a bullet prize winner almost winner writer a real literary guy next to me doesn't make me a pronunciation expert well it might god's okay alexander does think he's if he's your best guy how come you don't know his name i know his name i just don't know how to pronounce it he's sitting right behind us but bostick is here with vasil lomachenko they're both pretty damn good fighters and in the same stable adonis stevenson is the guy who is the lineal champion but his level of inactivity and not fighting the top guys kind of he loses that veneer of stevenson's the best punch out of the punch he's a southpaw and he's got a murder with a straight left hand a power punch to a southpaw but i think that this guy's got a little bit better than him but he's a champion can't do much better than that the man who beat chad dawson but now it's up for grabs to the public consciousness better vf trying to make it happen with [Music] [Music] again the claim to fame from better bf for a long time was that he was a guy who beat kovalev twice in the amateurs and again as far as this fight goes we're seeing i i think it's about music about jazz about rhythm yeah we're seeing more punches obviously from better be input we've seen them poke it off they're not seeing them in symphony we're not seeing them in rhythm we'll see it back like that we're not seeing them one after another the way that you hear beautiful music you're hearing percussion about symphony exactly i knew there'd be a reason i find the reason i have you here tonight thanks a lot i appreciate it there'll be times when you watch better be a fight though where nothing seems to be happening and that's why i say don't blink don't go away it can take very little before a man goes down and where i want to see you know what mark's talking about as far as that rhythm without the break is i just want to see the right hand right behind the jab down the middle i thought at the end of the last round he began to assert his will and established a little rhythm then we heard the bell he's always in certain as well he wakes up in the morning [Applause] what i want to see him do is not break up the rhythm the pattern of the punches i want to see a jab that blinds but jay was just apply like that but then a right hand right behind him igor mario hanson i mentioned to filio stevenson igamario hanson won the heavyweight title big surprise against floyd patterson that's what he did blinding him with the jab right hand right behind him he tried a right hand there teddy around the guard of pulling that's not a bad choice against the guy who goes into those earmuffs go around the glove polling trying with the hook and he landed as well as carling seems to have at least a decent rhythm here firing back and then misses with the right hand that's a decent sway decent rhythm right now it's also a decent looping right hand now to the body [Applause] here at the save mart center save bart center fresno california brian kennedy teddy atlas mark kriegel and bernardo asuna working the corners for us arcturu better be and enrico colling of germany here round six scheduled for 12 for the ibf belt at 175 pounds good choice of a punch by beta bf right there the looping right hand look i want to see the straight right hand i'm still going to say it but a good choice there because again you put those earmuffs on you go into that pickable the opening sometimes is not the conventional way not the straight way it's the looping way around the glove better vf smartly stands back avoids that right hand he also went with the jab to the body as well teddy to open things up gotta become have more of a versatile attack so far hasn't had an awful lot of success against enrico coleman oh he's like arthur abraham except again without that explosive power [Music] only throws a right hand to the body springs to the side to get out of danger not as caveman like as abraham abraham was pretty pretty raw i mean he won the world title he was fun to watch give all the credit in the world successful but he was caveman like coming with looping shots all night long you see how this you know fights past five rounds it's really better bf's credit that he only has one fight past five no one's been able to stand up against him past that i would pay 20 bucks right now to see some caveman from colon i don't think he punches of course it's not his nature that's why he said in the first round pretending he's in the fight i mean that's the thing that's always he's out of here i don't think he is he's losing rounds he's dumping rounds you don't think he's dead he's there but i don't see him winning rounds teddy is is it a failure of will or is it a failure of talent no it's a failure of temperament it is you are what you are it's your temperament you want to call it will be a little fancy fine i'll call it will but i'm going to say it's personality and personality you could argue over vocabulary of a scorecard for that so teddy you give every round to archer better be it yeah again it's not will he he's not having this real broken mind it's just a matter of he's a safe guy about right there colin let fly two hooks missed is better if better bff has decent defense he'll get out of range but there's a sharp jab like holy he's trying he's trying this round look there are people in life that because of the upbringing they become what they become maybe something happened to him early in life where he became this careful guy a more precise guy a more thoughtful guy but that's what he is that's what calling is teddy he came all the way over here to fight an undefeated guy who knocks everyone out he's not that timid he's different in the ring right now you want to make stuff up and you want to make a novel glad that's what writers do [Music] there we um [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] [Music] now [Applause] 10 seconds 10 seconds [Music] let us know with us now praise enrico calling he's gone where no man has gone before to the beginning of the eighth round with archer better beard well done i think we have a slight difference of opinion and how we're viewing this all due respect no i thought i was next to captain kirk for a minute star trek but that's what happened to get it right i'm so happy he's here that no yeah spice it up a little bit fans a little disappointed with the lack of action so far archer a better viewer again looking for the ivf belt and rico colin again into round eight bernardo asunas listening into the corner to the german being spoken there bernardo what should we know well what they want him is to have a little bit of self belief he's already gone and taken the best punches of better bff now they want him to show what he's capable of doing and also in the corner they're very aware that the latino fans here are not very appreciative of the european style ryan i'm going to tell you right now i'm going to piggyback off that he is showing what he's capable of he's been showing it for seven rounds this is what he is absolutely that's what he's capable of doing he's a controlled guy and careful guy that's a guy that's not gonna go out on the edge see the punch stats there comfy box stats stunning to me i'm not counting the punches but better vf has that type of fast edge which backs up what teddy has been saying there you go ted thank you you and the stats align teddy you're in colin's corner what do you tell him be something that you haven't been does the trainer have a right to tell the guy that yeah tell us something you've never yeah go out there something you've never been be what you need to be tonight it's not enough tonight to survive and at the end of the night to say i went to distance you have to live with yourself this is gonna be over within a matter of minutes but for years you're gonna have to live with the regret did i do enough and if the answer comes back yes it's gonna live with you a lot longer than anything in this ring tonight maybe the answer is he did do enough maybe that's when he turns off the light tonight he says to himself he did do enough can we hold better be up to the same standard hey you're the knockout artist you're the guy supposed to be the force in the division should you knock him out no he's being smart he's doing what he's supposed to do he's winning the rounds and not putting himself at greater risk that he needs to but again if i'm in the corner of calling i'm just saying son you got minutes to turn this around but you got years to live with the regret if you don't do more why did why does it incumbent on calling to take risks but not better [Applause] [Music] better be of the reason why i'm not holding him to the same standard it's because he's with him and guess what that's the job at hand winning the fight i'd say now over the last round and plus teddy i absolutely hear you with it the punches are coming from better bm but i know what mark is saying in that for a lot of this fight better be methodical slow taking his time economical yeah it's not as if he's putting his foot down on the accelerator either but he doesn't say that all right why is it necessarily a failure of character on on i'm not saying it's character see that's where you put words in my mouth writer you i'm talking about that it's just his temperament it is what he is it's not a failing it's a fine character but it's a character that's not going to get him as far as right now a world title that's wrong now let's talk about something else let's talk about benjamin we talk a lot that's not me how about that about killer instinct should better be if he saw anymore no because again he is doing what he has to do he's got the fight in hand and at the end of the day that is your mission that is what you're trying to accomplish again this is round nine this is the ibf belt so teddy to your point right this is the shot of the title it's the world title fight and let it hang out now there's ever a time look from pulling there to the body that landed and again here you are in the ninth round you know you have you have a matter of minutes left and to mark's question earlier if i'm in the corner i'm just saying look whatever it is that's holding you back from doing a little bit more you got x amount of minutes to not let it hold your back but i got a message for you very important you listen to this you will have years as i said earlier years not finished to refresh what you didn't do here in the ring tonight and if that's not strong enough and moving enough then it's never going to happen what i'm suggesting is maybe colin can look himself in the mirror on the other hand for bet to be a it's worth something in terms of the economics of this sport his reputation taking a chance on knocking this guy out no i disagree with you get the title tonight and then go make money all right poland coming back with a hook there in the straight right hand by better bien [Music] a business here art tour better bev looking to stay undefeated teddy atlas hasn't winning every single round against enrico colling of germany round 10 scheduled for 12 for the title mark craigo has a good decision right now wait now you're putting things in his mouth now that's not fair and you're the guy with no more powerful allegories you're right i've known teddy for a long time i've always been of the opinion that teddy's a closet writer i'm a fairly gifted one but also with the writer's sensibilities no matter how he might try to deny it moves in on the ropes lands a crucial short hook [Music] everything is guarded there's backfist landing everywhere [Applause] [Music] the closest bet to bia came to leaving boxes when he was 16 years old his father paid for his boxing gear for the russian junior national team richard won a gold medal then five days later his father passed a traffic accident and it's still something he just won't talk about yeah we asked him yesterday about it say how did it affect your career obviously he stepped away from uh obvious music stepped away for a short period of time how did he get back going and he said to you mark i'm not i don't want to speak about that he didn't even want to get into the depth of the motion that's still there but he also said i will try to fulfill the promise i made and he was referring to that time in his life this is the first fight in the career of calling in the united states most of them been in germany i don't know that he's going to want him here again at least not to get in the ring [Music] he would be in for a rough night and he's in the deep waters now round 10. he's absorbed quite a bit of punishment he stays on his bike back peddling trying to stay out of danger and better be up now might have the opportunity to put the hammer down this is the second time fighting in the u.s had better be if moses fights have been in canada he has traveled very well and obviously not nearly as far to perhaps get this world title see this is what i want i want a right hand right behind one of those jabs come on pop up like that see there it is again the music is stopping and then starting again i don't want it to stop i want to be jeff and then the right hand again the lead right i better be out all right just a bit here at the end of round 10. if you notice those shots are still the looping right hand whether it's up top or down below [Applause] [Music] [Music] right oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the straight right hand did split the guard and that was the best shot of the fight again thank you brian nicole giving birth a couple weeks ago to the little joseph atlas positive nine pounds 21 inches future heavyweight chat it's a big boy he's gonna have a good reach congratulations teddy do you elaine nicole put the kid in the ring we're gonna teach him he said future heavyweight champ yeah i see a lot of guys win heavyweight titles [Applause] slowed down now he sits upon the ropes better bm let go step out of that locker room like the last mile to the death chair and then go up those steps and get in that ring and do battle with another man i would never ever but he's locked up he's giving his best and you're taking issue with this template it should be taken somebody's got to point it out you're not gonna someone else i don't take an issue with it i think the guy's actually doing his best no he's he's doing what he's capable of doing i said that from the beginning i'm not knocking before i'm saying he's not going to be a world champion because of it somewhere in the middle i think it is what it is it's better all he's can do you've repeated yourself but yes he's doing all he needs to do to be the next life heavy great champ for the world mark you're saying that he's ventured a little closer to the klitschko line mark's trying to create drama i came in with great expectations you know like a lot of fans if you want to see a knockout but if you had watched the tape you would know the guy's not capable of that this is what he does [Applause] we're going to keep it right here to continue this as better vf has had more success i know what you're saying again fans can come away try saying wait this is the knockout artist where is it now there's where he split the guard and drove pulling back and hurt him okay the body punch and then trying to do a little tyson stuff there going from the body punch and then the uppercut not as effective obviously tyson got the results more often than not and again putting a few punches together for making them up and to me those were in well-placed punches those were just thrown punches landing on the arms landing on the gloves but not designed well-placed punches not discipline punches he's gonna knock him out and he'd be in better be if he needs discipline punches well that's it we've seen over the last generation fight either vladimir klitschko or with floyd mayweather saying hey if you're winning all the rounds what actually both of whom you're savagely criticized right correct so do you let your hands go and better be if he's winning every round and look at this point he is just beating down on calling he won't need much more he won't need anything really to win this fight except to stay on his feet teddy has given him every single round as we go to the final and 12th round by the way this is where colin thought he would bear best and go in 12 rounds obviously that is another one not turned out to be but he would be the first guy to take him to this to this full distance better vf comes out a little more aggressively here to start the 12th round as he pours in let's see if he does try a little bit more in this round again you can sense the energy level of better bf is the pilot light is just it's a it's at a nice low flame and it just keeps going is that not a criticism of a fighter with a world title on the line his reputation the world watching i hear you i hear you somewhere between the two of you offers i think the truth lies esteemed now he goes better just bouncing shots lightly off the head he has an immense amount of power even on the shots he doesn't wind up on again kind of like the show business world you know sometimes you just gotta finish the act you know and get on to the next stand the next act and in that act you'll become a star and that's what this is for me tonight this act is just about getting the belt get the belt and then after that in the next act you could be a stop holy is hurt now as better bf has definitely started putting more on those shots more shots are coming out culling is hurt his legs are portraying him that's a hard body shot by better viewers that was percussion but that's why i said when market has me rounds and rounds earlier poland takes a knee as he goes down as he has been beaten down by better vienna there's no question better in this round has upped the action and that's his style you know this is where he gets his dividends from all that pressure this is what he does better vf moves in with the right hand you know marketer asked me earlier can calling do something late because that's his plan and i said no too much to be taken adam and you've seen that right now better bf has never had to stand in the ring and listen to a decision as a professional and down goes polling and that's it he will still not have to listen to the cards a knockout win and the light heavyweight championship to artur better be out that's closing the show i think it's hugely significant that he did knock him out however long it took there was just much more aggression from better bf teddy let's go through it yeah let's look at the first knock down here brian finance of the body was saying earlier with that pickleball the bodies open there's the uppercut split the guard and a little delay but it was the uppercut that split the guard that really got things going downward in there the looping punch behind the ear he chose that punch earlier he saw the peekaboo he saw the defense he saw the opening was not in the conventional place it was behind the air and that's what he took that's exactly what i was saying from the beginning let's take a look and how the damage was done round after round pressure constant pressure and then later on their hands moving more and more the body tyson light left hook to the body left uppercut there's the jab there's the right hand behind the glove and there at the end is the punch that was there the uppercut the left uppercut then the right half and uppercut and then the first knockdown right there an accumulation of punches and then the second knockdown and the end of the night with the right hand behind the glove ladies and gentlemen referee dr lou moret calls into the spot with an official time of two minutes 33 seconds of the 12th and final round declaring the winner by way of knockout and now the new ibf light heavyweight champion of the world [Music] [Applause] you

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Length: 39min 57sec (2397 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 11 2021