If Kovalev wins...

Hopkins was 50 and MUCH smaller
Stevenson aint **** but a punch
Pascal's a good but not great fighter


The guys obviously a monster. But those 3 wins arent all that amazing


Hopefully Beterbiev and some of the other Ruskies provide him with some super stern challenges

 

Kovalev doesn't like being hit and is a bit reckless I'm going I put a bit on an early pascal ko I the odds are good. pascal could surprise him early with something big with his speed and powe that kovalev hasn't seen yet

 

Pascal will get reckless, if you can't stop Lucien Bute you got problems. :thumbsup

 

It doesn't matter who Kovalev fights he will never get the props he deserves.



He'd be up there in the top 10 after those fights.

 

6 pounds aint much smaller. :deal try 15-20lbs

 

With all the ducking that goes on in boxing, relying on resume too much is unfair

These would be 3 of the harder challenges in the division, so youd have to give him props for actually being willing to challenge himself, unlike so many others

H2H in the division he's a monster

He's got the GGG problem in that he's so dangerous the other guys in the division duck him - so you really cant rely too much on resume anymore - you have to look at what he does with guys others have fought

No one's done that to Hopkins, even if he was 50 and smaller

Adonis is running from him so he should get automatic points for that - making another fighter too scared to step in the ring with you

And Pascals a good fighter who can bang. Dont give him much of a shot here at all cause Kovalevs too strong too good, but it would still be a good win


I dont presonaly know enough about the history of the division to answer the OP, but H2H he looks a bloody nightmare

 

That was all? Damn that alien sure got a heavy head :good

 

I don't really want to rank them, but I think all 32 of these guys have a pretty good case for outranking Kovalev, and at least 20 of them are out of his reach no matter what he does:

Bob Fitzsimmons
Philadelphia Jack O'Brian
Harry Greb
Ezzard Charles
Archie Moore
Jimmy Bivins
Sam Langford
Gene Tunney
Tommy Loughran
Bob Foster
Harold Johnson
Joey Maxim
Maxie Rosenbloom
Michael Spinks
Billy Conn
John Henry Lewis
Willie Pastrano
Jack Dillon
Jack Delaney
Paul Berlenbach
Jersey Joe Walcott
Kid McCoy
Young Stribling
Jimmy Slattery
Battling Levinsky
Tommy Gibbons
Mike McTigue
Bernard Hopkins
Glen Johnson
Antonio Tarver
Dariusz Michalczewski
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