Can Kovalev make a come back...

You really just aren't too smart. You can't admit that you were rather epically owned, I literally wrote that and you were still somehow unable to understand that.

I tried to go a bit easy on you initially, but you deny you said something, and then I quote where you said it. Thats epic ownage dude. Then you post a long, rambling, and feeble attempt to rationalize what you said. It was clear your post from months ago lumped those three together h2h. And that would actually be intellectually preferable to the excuse you later carved up. You think Ali, whose prime was about 15 years after Rocky, and who, unlike Rocky, depended on being the larger fighter, is not subject to size and generational limitations, but that Rocky is? Absurd. But go ahead and make another long rambling message to try to explain away your stupidity. It will only make you look more feeble.

 

I don't think Kovalev's style translates well to a move up in weight. He relies too much on punching power which will not have the same impact @ CW that it does @ LHW. He's no Bernard Hopkins or Roy Jones jr. Moving up is a BAD idea, IMO...

 

You bashed him... But you didn't call him KANalev or a similar pejorative. Impressive!

 

Financial reasons, most likely. Kova has been at 175 for a long time now. And at the age of 34 it might be a lot harder to make the weight than it was at 30, when he won his first title. -

 

If I could emoji, it would be a facepalm right now. You are so stupid you can't even follow you're own line of thought. Lets take this slow. You said in your post from months ago that Ali was probably your#1 h2h. You also mentioned Rocky and Tunney, implying that they would contend for the title. Later, you claim that you just thought that the latter two deserved to be options, not that they would be #1, because the division has evolved. By nature, as 2+2 is 4, that means that you think the division hasn't evolved beyond Ali, as he was your #1 pick, and even though he generally relied on a size advantage unlike Rocky. All of that is not only self defeating, it still contradicts your earlier position that Kovalev is too small to move up. Again, epic fail on all counts, and you just keep making it worse for yourself

 

Just noticed this. No, I think you are hypocritical and inconsistent. H2h, the shw atgs of the past 30 years would beat anyone. Therefore, if I were to say that Kovalev is too small for CW, which I probably do believe, it would be consistent. It looks absurd when you do it though, since you think the massively smaller hw's of yesteryear would beat the atg SHWs of today. Even more since you think that there is a magical line around 1960 where everyone beforehand is too old and slow, but afterward it's all good. Be consistent.

 

I'd give Sergey a fair shot at beating anyone not named Ward at 175lbs so I think it's silly for him to leave. He's still arguably 2nd best in the division and capable of thrashing Stevenson.

While it may sound silly I'd love for Ward and Sergey to fight again, I thought the 20 rounds they tangled were intresting and dynamic. I sometimes feel blessed that I can appreciate both fights from a non biased perspective. There's nothing like observing a fight without a vested interest, annoying ethnocentric views and Xenophobic attitudes. There are handful of posters on here capable of nuetral fight breakdowns and it's the only reason I visit.

 

Kov looks a bit old for the age of 34. Some people tend to age overnight.

 

Unless he's fighting stevenson next, I dont see him losing again in a while.