Newly minted Russian WBA light heavyweight titleholder was not supposed to be challenged today in Monte Carlo. He wasn’t. It only took one round for the up coming potential star to dispose of his Australian foe.
Dmitry Bivol (12-0, 10 KOs) was two classes above his opponent this afternoon. He was always going to be. Australia’s Trent Broadhurst (20-2, 9 KOs) came into this fight almost a complete unknown. He had never competed at this level and had been stopped by Robert Berridge the one time he stepped up even to the midlevel of the sport.
For two minutes and fifty nine seconds, Broadhurst was okay though. He landed a good right hand and tried to get his jab going. He almost landed another right later. The knockdown that Bivol was scored at the round’s midpoint was a bogus one too as it was clearly a push. It didn’t matter in the scoring, however, as the Russian puncher beat the bell with one crisp right hand by half a second. Broadhurst crumpled in the corner and that was that. It was a pretty one punch knockout which is all we really could have asked for here.
