It was a good win and I give Canelo credit. For obvious reasons (at least they seem obvious to me) it was by no means a great win.
Not as triggered as you were when Canelo laid Kov out and beat GGG the second fight. VIVA CANELO MOTHA****A
Good knockout, but it was a lifeless and dull fight lacking aggression by both. Canelo had his gloves up for most of it. Job done though and kudos, lost most rounds but got a great out of there in style
Kovalev might not be shot but he's hella close to it. Just because he can still pump out a jab for 10 rounds doesn't invalidate him having no right hand (something even Dre noted as had I), his punch resistance being clearly badly diminished, him clearly not hitting anywhere near as hard as he did in his prime which is what made him so formidable, and having had very little time to recover after a tough fight 9 weeks ago with a rank novice who came within a whisker of knocking him out. Kovalev is a very old 36 and Clenelo wouldn't have dared whispered his name in a darkened room in a secluded house in the middle of nowhere if Kov was even remotely close to his prime and we all know damn well he wouldn't. It was a cherrypick of the most vulnerable 175 champ out there who has looked like a mere shell of his former fearsome self for years now. The difference between the 2010-2014 Kov and the one of today and recent years is night and day and I've been telling you all he was past his best since 2014.
You think I just make stuff like this up Old post This way past his best drunkard version of Kovalev has only managed to drop and really hurt one opponent in his last six fights due to his power which has clearly diminished and that was Shabranskyy who has shaky whiskers. Kovalev couldn't drop or hurt Ward in their rematch after wobbling him down to his soul with a jab and dropping him in a praying position with a right hand in their first encounter. He couldn't badly hurt or drop Mikhalkin. He couldn't drop or hurt Alvarez in either of their fights (19 rounds of combined action) And he couldn't hurt or drop Yarde until the later ran out of gas. Prime Kovalev hurt, dropped, or brutally stopped almost everyone who shared a ring with him (including some of the most iron-jawed toughest SOBs out there) and there's no goddamn way in hell any of those fighter's don't get badly hurt, last as long as they did, or their backs don't taste the canvas against a prime Kovalev. Watch. Literally night and day This content is protected
This. All Kovalev had left was a jab and a little foot speed , which was giving Canelo a hard time, but he had absolutely nothing in his right hand and his timing and handspeed was looking labored after the 3rd round.
Greatness is beating up on an old man when you were a 1/4 fav to win? Canelo lowers the standard again.
Kovalev aged overnight after likely not recovering from the brain trauma he took from the yarde fight
The turnaround on this board is pathetic too, close to worst ever next to GGG--Alvarez II and Mayweather--Pac. All of the "experts" here picked Kovalev. He showed up in the same form as he did against Eleider in Feb, same gameplan and everything. He had a better Alvarez in front of him this time. I expected Kovalev to jab a lot and Canelo to take a tight decision without ever being hurt, but Canelo exceeded my expectations by slumping Kovalev over.
