Beterbiev.

Gvozdyk is the future of the 175lb division.

Beterbiev was workman like last night, won every round against a solid spoiler, onwards and upwards with his career.

 

You cannot take anything from that fight last night. FFS nobody mows down everyone. In addition; everyone claiming to know how Beterbiev/Kovalev would play out is simply engaging in specious speculation.

 

even if you are right about kovalev looking bad in fight 2 which I agree with, the vast majority of people here had kovalev well upand say the right by ward didnt actually hurt him, and there were 10 low blows.

 

it's really sad that you as a MOD of this forum
1. don't know how to score fights
2. are wrong about every pick ever.
3. when you are wrong make up excues.

 

You are wrong on 2 points!
1: Kovalev was hurt by that right! How else can you explain why he was running away from Ward after he got tagged.
2: There was nowhere near 10 low blows in that fight. The belt line was considered a legal blow during pre-fight instructions. That body shot that crumpled Kov over in the last round and set up that right, was a very clean and legal shot, no doubt! The last body shot was very close to call. If you wanted Kov to win, then it was low. If you Wanted Ward to win, then it was good.

 

Kovalev looked to be in a slight but definite decline before the first Ward fight.
I thought Ward would take a close but clear decision the first time, and a wide UD in the rematch.

Both of those predictions were a little off but if there's one thing I'm in no doubt about, it's that Kovalev isn't the beast he was 2 or 3 years ago.

That said, I'd pick Beterbiev to out-brutalise a prime Kovalev. Today's Kovalev gets put to sleep by him.

Beterbiev vs Gvozdyk and Bivol are more interesting, but I'd still pick him to beat both.

 

Don't know about his chin but Kov certainly got his nuts cracked by thay cheating scumbag Ward

 

A good, unbiased referee would at least have taken points from Ward & DQ'd him fit that final blatant low barrage. But Ward knew he had carte blanche

 

I feel like you could def top the rankings if you trusted your first instinct more tbh, you tend to switch from time to time and sometimes it tends to backfire hard LOL.

You also pick a lot of underdogs.

 

I had the impression that Beterbiev was carrying Koelling for 11 and a half rounds. He just didn't seem to have any sense of urgency until the final round. Maybe he was testing himself to see what going twelve rounds is like. Still he was dominate and methodical. Koelling did not put up a heroic fight, however, he did fight smart and didn't make things easy for Beterbiev.