Is Sergey Kovalev an ATG?

Good... That's what you get for talking nonsense and not paying attention to your crooked sidewalks. Froch still has more depth to his resume.

 

Youre tripping

 

good but i believe they both fought pascal?

Anyway, frochs resume speaks for itself, its a chain of world to elite.

 

Many don't even know what Kessler did before his loss to Calzaghe and then hyped him when Ward beat him later but don't know anything more about him other than the Froch fights.
Kessler has a very solid resume of top SMW wins
Mundine between SMW title reigns
Beyer 3 time and reigning champ
Siaca when champ
Sartison future champ undefeated
Lucas when world rated and former champ
Andrade when world rated
Haussler former European champ

When faded
Beat undefeated champ Froch and champ Magee

 

Hmmmm you're not making a strong case for kessler

 

kov has a fair case for elite (or at least repeat titlist) pascal and that draw with surefire hof ward.

froch has elite kessler, titlist bute and elite taylor as well as pascal. Groves is just the pudding.

froch is ahead, just by sheer dint of aiming so high ever since he hit the world scene. He is not a great fighter ever but theres no questioning the respect he garnered and deserved for winning some of those high points. He carved out his own elitedom.

Sergey is of course elite too, and stands very close.

 

Wdym when he finally stepped up? OG was a prospect going into the Stevenson fight, and he had fought tough competition before.

 

According to Boxrec these are the top 13 fighters in Light Heavyweight History:

Archie Moore
Roy Jones Jr
Tommy Gibbons
Joey Maxim
Michael Spinks
Antonio Tarver
Bob Foster
Billy Conn
Tommy Loughran
Dwight Muhammad Qawi
Virgil Hill
Harold Johnson
Sergey Kovalev


The records of the following men are too old to compare:
Tommy Gibbons
Joey Maxim
Billy Conn
Tommy Loughran
Harold Johnson

Archie Moore
May has a record of 10-2 (5 KOs) in world title fights.
May has a record of 8-8-1 (2 KOs) against former, current, and future world champions

Roy Jones Jr
Has a record of 22-3 (14 KOs) in world title fights.
Has a record of 19-9 (8 KOs) against former, current and future world titlists.

Michael Spinks
Has a record of 14-1 (9 KO) in World Title fights.
Has a record of 7-1 (2 KO) against former world titlists.

Antonio Tarver
Has a record of 3-3-0 (1 KO) in World Title fights.
Has a record of 7-5-1 (2 KO) against former or current world titlists.

Bob Foster
Has a record of 14-1-1 (11) in World Title fights.

Dwight Muhammad Qawi
Has a record of 6-4 (6 KO) in World Title fights.
Has a record of 8-8 (7 KO) against former world titlists.

Virgil Hill
Has a record of 24-5 (7 KO) in World Title fights.
Has a record of 11-7 (3 KO) against former or current world titlists.

Sergey Kovalev
Has a record of 13-3 (10 KO) in world title fights.
Has a record of 6-3 (4 KO) against former or current world titlists


Sergey’s competition is a bit light compared to other former Light Heavy Weight greats, but he’s on par with Antonio Tarver. I personally would consider him a shoe in HOF, maybe an ATG for his weight class, not even close to ATG for top boxers ever to do it.

 

Tarver vs. Kovalev resume
1. Best win: Tarver by a mile (Jones II)

2. Harding, Johnson, Jones III, Griffin, Woods, R. Johnson, Green>Alvarez, Ancient Hopkins, Chilemba, Pascalx2, Cleverly

Bad loses near prime:
Kovlev stopped twice. Tarver looked like crap against Hopkins

Titles:
Tarver--4x 175 champ, was the man at 175 after beating Jones and Glen Johnson.
Kovalev--3x champ, never ruled the division bc of Stevenson.

Ams:
Tarver by a mile

Conclusion: Tarver's career is better than Kovalev's

 

No Ezzard Charles...no credibility.

 

I think Roy Jones of Virgil Hill stop Kovalev no problem.

 

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