Is Sergey Kovalev an ATG?

mmm even then 49 year old hopkins was ripe to be plucked. Smith smashed him next fight.

 

Oh give up.. I love posts like this.. they're so disingenuous.. to assess all those names properly you'd have to spend weeks & weeks of watching there fights.. you'd have no life! I bet you've barely watched a single fight for most of those on that list.. I suspect many of them barely have more than a handful of fights on film anyway! So Where do you get this ****? You probably just google searched a top 50 LHWs list lol

I mean come on.. how many fights of Philadelphia jack o brien have u watched?? LOL a guy who was born in Victorian times, fought with straw gloves & fought when sports, gambling & the underworld went hand in hand.. corruption was rife! Let alone half of these guys he fought have only parts of there resumes listed due to lack of records at the time..

It's all second hand info you'd have to go off a lot of the time..

I've watched some of these old timers fight & have a fairly sound idea of what I'm watching.. & some look totally archaic technically! It's all just opinion but I believe technically & combined with his physical attributes Kovalev could stack up in any era.. but maybe I'm wrong.. I just don't have the time to study the minutiae of every era.. not many do!

 

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Arguably hof but not an atg.

 

How is Ward clearly an ATG but Kovalev is only "arguably" HOF? He's by far the best win on his resume and was the man at 175 for years reclaiming the title twice since his first reign ended. He's easily one of the most accomplished 175ers of the last 50 years so he's CLEARLY a HOF with a VERY good case for being an ATG.

 

If he beats canelo i would put him in the hof but that wouldn't make him an atg.

 

Not only two h2h wins but Ward's resume and accomplishments dwarf that of kovalev are you serious? Froch alone is light years better than anyone kovalev beat. Like i said earlier if he beats canelo he should be in the hof. Ward had one of the best resumes in boxing when he was active he was damn good.

 

If he's loses to Clenelo it's because he's totally shot. It has no barring on his legacy win or lose. Clenelo is not a Light-Heavyweight fighter. Totally ridiculous statement to suggest that he needs that win to be considered HOF worthy lol... Especially with the abysmally low modern standard.

 

It was a close fight but he didnt beat ward and gets no credit for it. With that said i know what you mean. Who's his best win?

 

Kovalev isnt prime but he's not shot and if he loses it's because he lost to a better man. Canelo is coming up in weight to 175 and will probably be the underdog in the fight like he was against ggg.

 

A close fight that can go either way isnt a robbery people need to stop with that nonsense. A robbery is pea-jcc rjj in the Olympics kovalev-ward doesn't fit that description. Ward cleaned out a division in grand fashion kovalev never did that nor did he move up in weight. You cant give kovalev credit for none wins it doesnt work like that. Should we do what ifs for every fighter who ever fought a close fight when rating them?