Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2016-06-04, disappointing fight between Artur Beterbiev and Ezequiel Maderna: it gets two stars.The 2009 world amateur boxing champion Artur Beterbiev entered this fight with a perfect boxing record of 9-0-0 (9 KOs=100%) and he is ranked as the No.9 light heavyweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Sergey Kovalev). He fought twice last year beating Gabriel Campillo (=Beterbiev vs Campillo) and Alexander Johnson (=Beterbiev vs Johnson).
His opponent, Ezequiel Osvaldo Maderna, has an official record of 23-2-0 (15 knockouts) but he is not ranked as he hasn’t fought since May 22, 2015 when he defeated Rolando Wenceslao Mansilla. His two losses occurred in 2013 against Edwin Rodriguez and Thomas Oosthuizen. Beterbiev vs Maderna is valid for the WBO International and WBA-NABA light heavyweight titles. Watch the video and rate this fight!
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Date: 2016-06-04
Where: Bell Centre, Montreal, Canada
Division: light heavyweight (175 lbs, 79.4 kg)
Title: WBO International and WBA-NABA light heavyweight titles
Beterbiev’s previous fight: Artur Beterbiev vs Alexander Johnson
Beterbiev’s next fight: Artur Beterbiev vs Isidro Prieto
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Official highlights
Beterbiev looked a bit rusty in the first rounds, but as soon as he connected cleanly with the right hand, Maderna’s night was over. Beterbiev has to fight Kovalev.
For a fight that had 4 knockdowns in it, it was awfully boring. All those knockdowns looked soft, except maybe the first one. As Atlas said, Maderna was just looking for a way to quit. There are rumors that only 500 people paid for their tickets, maybe a repercussion to the Bute doping affair.
@ATBF could you be so kind to post this video again because it cannot be opened as is.
New video posted!-)
Beterbiev looking a lot bigger than Maderna, who was just being pushed by the jab the whole time. Too one sided match, the russian was just too strong for the argentinian and no wonder, this was his first light heavyweight bout.
and Maderna missed the first weigh-in by 2 pounds