Bob Foster vs Sergey Kovalev At LHW

Are you pulling our legs here or being serious?

 

:rofl

 

Style wise, Kovalev has the skills and power to defeat Foster. The trouble with this thread is Foster is an all time top ten great at light heavyweight, while Kovalev has much of his career ahead of him.

I do think Kovalev has shown enough to rate as a top 20 all time light heavyweight in a head to head sense. He's much more than a one trick pony puncher. He targets the head or body well with both hands, fights smart, and is rather technical for a big puncher. He has also shown good timing and accuracy to negate faster fighter, which is one of the toughest things to master in boxing!

 

:rasta

 

He has nothing on Saad for all these attributes.

 

I don't see anything funny about Kovalevs power, didn't an opponent of his die:huh

 

Yes. And it wasn't even the prolonged beating or a vet of too many wars that shouldn't have been in the ring that normally results in tragedies. It was a young 27 year old propsect being groomed for big things, who was boxing well before Kov opened up in the 6th with combinations to his head and stopped him in the 7th round, he collapsed and died in the hospital. Messed up.

Kov is for real, these guys don't know what they are talking about. The punches he is knocking these guys out with are jabs, straight body punches, off balance arm punches with his feet not set...its nuts. I've never seen power like this.

I swear he even looks like he's pulling his punches these days and still knocking guys out. You can laugh now but a few years from now, you'll be talking bout this guy as one of the hardest hitters in history.

 

Shut it.

 

Kov dropped someone with a body jab

Only a Liston could do such a thing

 

:happy rejoice rejoice. He is an Atg puncher.

 

Yeah, exactly, someone.

Someone shockingly average.

 

No

 

Let's face it, Kovalev was expected to lose, like a typically strong, powerful but unskilled type like Hopkins was used to feasting on. Kov totally surprised me and impressed me as well. The guy has skills and I think he'll deal well with this Beberbiev dude.

 

Beterbiev beat Kov in the amateurs twice, and is an absolute monster.

I think he'll be a harder fight for Kovalev than Adonis would actually.