We all seem to be so confident that Kovalev will knock out Agnew in the early rounds. But will he really? Tt wouldn't be the first time an unknown fighter pulled off the upset. Remember Buster Douglas and Nobuhiro Ishida?
I've seen a few clips of Agnew, and if I was to predict I'd say this fight resembles Matthysse-Dallas Jr a lot.
He describes his boxing style is like winky wright with roy jones jr handspeed. Hard to say, like kovalev's trainer says about agnew, it's hard to find any video of him and he hears a lot of praise about him. He is taking agnew serious. Kovalev seems like his taking agnew light, today at weigh in kovalev gave agnew a pair of mini boxing gloves with his signature. He said to agnew he won't get the belt but he can hang the gloves in his car Interview with agnew:Sam Colonna, who now trains Andrzej Fonfara and recently said in an interview that you have the best boxing abilities pound for pound today. How does it feel to get that support back home in Chicago and to know that you and your former stable mate are fighting two of the best light heavyweight champions in world? It feels really good to know that we’ve come this far, and that I have a lot of support back home. What do you think is going to happen with Fonfara and Stevenson? I don’t know, but I think if he goes into that fight with the right mentality, and know you’re strong and got the best ability, anything can happen. Would you be interested or willing to fight Fonfara in Chicago after your fights? Yeah, you know, it would be something big to fight each other in Chicago. We both have big followings back home. Ya know, a lot of people don’t know me, but I gotta lot of supporters in Chicago. I want to come back to fight in Chicago after this fight. In addition to fan support, how does it feel to know that a lot of young black fighters in Chicago, most notably welterweight prospect Alex Martin, see you as a role model? It feels good. I didn’t know a lot of people looked up to me like that there until recently, but it feels good. Unlike a lot of Chicago’s best black fighters, you were able to make it. Why? Most of the time, early in their careers when they are very good and tough prospects they get hooked up with the wrong people who just use them and throw them away after a few paydays. Basically, they get put into fights too early in their careers, and it ruins them. Is that why you chose Malcolm Garrett as your promoter? I chose Malcolm because a lot of other promoters were coming to me but a lot of these other promoters that were coming to me had a reputation for using fighters and not enough of those promoters had a reputation of building champions and taking care of them. Malcolm also had a good relationship with my uncle and my brother. Do you think it has worked out? Yeah it has worked out (laughs). I mean I’m fighting for the world championship (laughs). You come from a fighting family. Why are the Agnews into boxing? (Laughs) I don’t know. I just come from a family of it. I guess over the generations it has just been adopted and just passed on and passed. We are just trying to keep it rolling. How long can you trace back? Obviously your uncle, “Mighty” Mike Evans, boxed, but who else? My uncle boxed; my father did the amateurs; I had another uncle who boxed; I had four God brothers who boxed; my little brother, Frankie, boxes now and one sister boxed. A while back you described your style as someone who fights like Winky Wright but has the hand speed of Roy Jones Jr. Can you explain that in more detail because most fans haven’t seen you fight? Well, if you knew Winky Wright, then you know it was hard to penetrate his defense. He didn’t have a flashy defense or nothing like that but he always had his hands up at all times and it was hard to penetrate his tight defense. It was kinda like trying to knock down a brick wall. And like Roy Jones Jr., well, I’ve got hand speed. Everybody has been talking about who Kovalev is going to fight next. Who are you thinking about fighting after Kovalev? I don’t know. Ya know, whatever deals come to us and whatever my manager has in store for me and my family is what we will take. I’m ready for anyone they put in front of me, so whoever wants to step up is who I’ll take. One more question. What does “L.O.W.” mean? Leader of war. Anything else you would like to add? Just that it’s my time.
Kovalev is a 37-1 favorite. He's not losing this fight. Agnew hasn't fought anyone and will get pounded.
