Comments Thread For: McGirt: Kovalev Stuck To The Game Plan More Than I Anticipated

[Pigeons]

I'd like to see Kovalev-Beterbiev next. WBO-IBF LHW unification.

Let's see how long Buddy can extend Kovalev's career.

[_Rexy_]

I'd like to see Kovalev-Beterbiev next. WBO-IBF LHW unification.

Let's see how long Buddy can extend Kovalev's career.

Everyone has been wanting to see that fight since 2015

[MDPopescu]

McGirt: Kovalev Stuck To The Game Plan More Than I Anticipated

Sergey Kovalev reclaimed the WBO light heavyweight championship he lost to Eleider Alvarez six months ago. Kovalev controlled the pace throughout the fight, finishing with a flurry in the 12th round and winning the rematch in a unanimous decision.
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... Kovalev simply got dead scared that his career actually ended and he will not make anymore... (during the last 3 years, he acted in a most ****** and wreckless manner, as a professional)...

[MDPopescu]

Everyone has been wanting to see that fight since 2015

I guess you remember that Beterbiev ducked a Kovalev fight offer in Russia!...

[_Rexy_]

I guess you remember that Beterbiev ducked a Kovalev fight offer in Russia!...

No time like the present. Neither guy is getting younger.

[MDPopescu]

No time like the present. Neither guy is getting younger.

... I always thought that Beterbiev would beat Ward and Kovalev (back then and now)...

[_Rexy_]

... I always thought that Beterbiev would beat Ward and Kovalev (back then and now)...

I thought Beterbiev and Bivol would beat Ward, and that he got out of the division at the right time.

Nail probably beats him too TBH.

[WhatDisButtonDo]

Great performance by Kovalev but Alvarez made it easy.

He never pushed the fight except for 10 or 15 seconds in the beginning of most of the rounds and the last round.

He was winging that right that caught Kovalev before from the beginning of the fight. By the time that punch would have any effect Kovalev was expecting it.

The reason that punch worked before was because Alvarez used it sporadically. Kovalev was tired and did not see the punch coming.

Last night Kovalev never got fatigued because of the pacing set by himself and lack of effort from Alvarez. He was expecting the punch so it never caught him off guard.

It still takes a great effort by Kovalev to realize his mistakes and make the necessary adjustments to correct it.

Eh, let's give Kovalev credit. Alvarez knocked Kovalev out the first fight so we forget that Kovalev is the actual hard hitter in this fight. Alvarez was sort of tentative in the first fight before Kovalev got tired.

[ShoulderRoll]

Kovalev actually boxed and fought a smart fight. Seemed to have a better gas tank too.

[MDPopescu]

I thought Beterbiev and Bivol would beat Ward, and that he got out of the division at the right time.

Nail probably beats him too TBH.

... Ward can't be beat by "clean fighters" like Kovalev or Bivol... Only Beterbiev ( I guess) had that chance...