There was a point during the months-long struggle to secure a fight date for his mandatory title defense when Sergey Kovalev and his team strongly considered jumping ship in favor of a lucrative showdown with Saul Canelo' Alvarez. Had he taken that fight instead of his eventual August 24 meet with England's Anthony Yarde, it would've meant waiting until late October or early November, which would put nine months between fights. Enough time had dragged along in waiting out an Alvarez date, however, to where the three-time and defending light heavyweight titlist was able to revisit plans to defend his crown versus Yarde at home in Chelyabinsk, Russia.
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