Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2017-11-11, disappointing fight between Artur Beterbiev and Enrico Koelling: it gets two stars.The undefeated 2009 World amateur champion Artur Beterbiev entered this fight with a perfect boxing record of 11-0-0 (11 KOs=100%) and he is ranked as the No.9 light heavyweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Adonis Stevenson). He fought twice last year winning over Ezequiel Osvaldo Maderna (=Beterbiev vs Maderna) and Isidro Ranoni Prieto (=Beterbiev vs Prieto).
His opponent, Enrico Koelling, has an official record of 23-1-0 (6 knockouts) and he entered as the No.19 in the same weight class. He suffered his only loss when he faced Mirco Ricci in 2015 (=Koelling vs Ricci), since then he has won seven consecutive fights defeating Ryno Liebenberg in his last two (=Koelling vs Liebenberg I). Beterbiev vs Koelling is valid for the vacant IBF World light heavyweight title; undercard of Jose Carlos Ramirez vs Mike Reed. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Date: 2017-11-11
Where: Save Mart Arena, Fresno, California, USA
Division: light heavyweight (175 lbs, 79.4 kg)
Title: vacant IBF World light heavyweight title
Beterbiev’s previous fight: Artur Beterbiev vs Isidro Ranoni Prieto
Beterbiev’s next fight: Artur Beterbiev vs Callum Johnson
Beterbiev vs Koelling fight video:
(Free embeddable video hosted on Youtube and not uploaded by AllTheBestFights)
Official video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGPPEVi_tTg
Beterbiev was disappointment.
Not sure why you people think this was a disappointment.
Koelling is a very defensive fighter,is known to take a shot and had never been stopped. Beterbiev boxed just as he should have.
Pretty much what I expected.
Koelling made the fight boring, not Beterbiev. Koelling only chance was based on Beterbiev fading in the later rounds. Artur threw more than 1000 punches in the fight but was wise to vary the intensity and speed in order to have energy left.
Even if you have power, it may be difficult to KO a fighter who keeps his hands high, moves his legs and head and do not throw any punches so he can’t be countered.
Awfully boring, I was scared Beterbiev would lose his KO record. The European was a paper champ.
A B, Another Blast, Any Bother; not likely.