Bellew could barely eek a win against a muscle laden injured Clev. A fit Clev at his proper weight peppered Bellew's bonce with lightning fast super combos. Haye would get messed up by Clev, whose only true defeat was against Kovalev. Hopefully boxing gives the baying public the fight everyone wants to see - Clev v Haye. Clev TKO3 victory.
I can see the parallels.... Clev managed to win his last fight despite being outboxed and outclassed due to his opponents body breaking down.
Clev had nothing at CW. Didn't have any power at LHW and that was even more apparent at CW, Bellews actually a better puncher at CW than he was LHW. Before Kovalev he was actually a solid LHW... Good movement, high volume, decent IQ. Somethings been missing since that fight. The pre Kovalev Clev wouldn't have gone to war with Fonfara, he would have used his advantages to outbox him to a fairly easy and decisive decision win. Haven't been impressed with Clev at all against live opponents since Kovalev. Lost clearly to Bellew in the rematch, fought Fonfaras fight and lost a clear decision(great fight but a bad performance from him) and was getting outboxed by Braehmer before his body gave out.
