I think a truly great era for the Light Heavyweight division is almost here. Regardless of what happens against Hopkins Kovalev is a force and will remain so for quite a while being only 31. Stevenson is turning 37 in a few days and probably won't be around too much longer but Adonis and Haymon are already doing an excellent job of making him irrelevant anyways. The prospects ascending are impressive and should start making their arrivals to the top of the division fairly early into 2015. Artur Beterbiev Eleider Alveraz Egor Mekhontsev Oleksandr Gvozdyk Yunieski Gonzalez Vasily Lepikhin Vyacheslav Shabranskyy Marcus Browne Umberto Savigne Medzhid Bektemirov Enrico Koelling Damian Hooper Erik Skoglund Isidro Ranoni Prieto Umar Salamov Oscar Ahlin ......... Ryno Liebenberg Radivoje Kalajdzic Guys possibly moving up at some point Andre Ward Andre Dirrell George Groves James Degale Gilberto Ramirez Callum Smith Guys that have failed but could still do something or remain relevant Andrzej Fonfara Ismael Sillakh Cedric Agnew Blake Caparello Thomas Williams jr
LOL. If there are Russians involved GOLDEN shouldn't be used and should be, The Tin Age, or even, The Plastic Age of boxing. So far, all the Russians in the US have only succeeded in crushing empty tin cans, so the Tin Can era is appropriate. Maybe in another 2-3 generations when Russians absorb so real American skills they may have a chance at the Gold.
Didn't you have to change accounts after a Ukranian beat GRJ? Aren't you a Korean who pretends to be black?
Erik Skoglund is my man, and fellow swede. He defended his EU-title a couple weeks ago. Against some Italian guy, I can't quite remember his name. Anyway it was a total shut-out, one judge scoring it 120-106 to Erik without any KDs or point deductions. It was the same guy that gave Jurgen Braemer problems, who BTW is ranked number four by the Ring. I expect alot out of Erik, and he is still only 23 years old.
really? I can't see it myself. Dawson, Pascal, Hopkins, Cleverly etc. Wasn't that exciting to me :? IMO the division has really come to light in the last year, and the upcoming fight is the most exciting one in recent memory. Then hopefully the winner will get Stevenson. Good times. Plus the upcoming talent pull that will make a name in the next 5 years. Really heating up imo.
All of Hopkin's fights are exciting specifically becasue in most of them, he is the underdog and expected to lose. How many here on ESB predicted that Hopkins would lose to Shumenov, only later saying that Shumenov was a bum? LOL. Once again, BHOP is the underdog, and the handwriting's on the wall for Kovalev's ESB future status!
Your pro-Kovalev agenda is bleeding all over your post here. Sillakh applies with what you've said, but Agnew and Caparello were not "guys that have failed but could still do something or remain relevant," those two are guys who never deserved title shots in the first place, most people had never seen fight before, and have never fought anyone of any relevance before being a tune up stepping stone for Kovalev to blast out. Quit acting like they ever accomplished anything significant, were discussed or known by people with any significance, or were ever regarded as being future top contenders just to make your man Kovalev seems like he has fought more than 2 or 3 real contenders ever.