GGG vs Kovalev. Who has the better killer instinct?

Sergey kovalev. look at the destruction of sillakh, campillo and cleverley.

 

I like both guys but GGG will always be ahead for me

 

I rate GGG better... but SK has more killer instinct then anyone around today... when this guy smells blood he's deadly!

 

I think GGG is more, seek and destroy mode.
Whereas Kovalev just sees a weakness and knocks people out.

Which one best describes killer instinct?

 

Kov huts much harder

GGG hasn't fought anyone like a bhop

 

Kovalev hasn't lost his desire to hurt opponents even after killing one of them in the ring. I think that answers this question.

 

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GGG is a good fighter but the hype is annoying...its easy to look like a killer in over 30 fights and have only fought like 3-4 top ten guys...none of them were punchers either

 

This ^ is more what I saw. He wanted to make damn sure of the victory, which ultimately gives him the future and the life that he wants. I suspect that yeah, he could have pushed harder, but in the circumstances the win was what counted, and when your entire future's hanging on it and the win's in the bag it ain't the time to taking that kinda risk.

It could very easily have gone badly wrong for Sergei if he'd gone for broke earlier in the fight, only to find the Old Warrior smiling back when the next round was rung in.

Even in the 12th when he was clearly going for the stoppage it looked like Kovalev only really started going in hard after BHops gave him the tongue and he might well have held off otherwise.. massive props to BHops for staying on his feet, but it wouldn't have taken more than another 10 or 20 seconds (even though Sergei himself looked like he didn't have much punch left in him either).

Nonetheles - a patient controlled and conservative fight from Kovalev. Kid did just what he had to do.

 

You can argue about their skills but there were plenty of people expecting Stevens and Rubio to test Golovkin's chin because they were considered punchers. You can't just rewrite things because he 1) took their best shot without flinching (Stevens) and 2) utterly destroyed them (Rubio). And I don't really know what you mean by "easy." We can argue about that but that's a whole different discussion.

 

Kovalev is the more aggressive boxer, which makes the discipline he showed against Hopkins very impressive. GGG is pure offense, always stalking, but he tends to pick his opponents appart more methodically compared to Kovalev's offensive bursts.

Uh... Stevens and Rubio are two of the bigger punchers at 160. You could actually say that Sergei is the one that hasn't fought punchers/had his chin tested.

 

You have to also look at a fighters opposition when tagging them as big punchers


everyone with decent talent and an ok punch looks like the next coming of Tommy Hearns until they fight real world class guys

Stevens and Rubio never ko'ed anyone of note or world champions....every fighters ko ratio dips a bit when the opposition gets stiffer

Stevens has a decent left hook but he aint no big puncher....Rubio has an intimidating ko ratio but everytime he stepped up he lost and didn't get em out of their...who did he ko of note...Lemieux GTFOH