Joe Calzaghe vs Sergey Kovalev At LHW

Joe brings out the best in this forum.

 

Clazaghe did not have the chin to stay at light heavyweight. One of the things that really impresses me about Kovalev is his body punching and timing on distance shots.

I think Kursher wins via TKO inside 8 rounds. Calzaghe can run and duck, but he going to have to take some shots here, and I don't think he can.

 

Calzaghe wouldn't even fight Kovalev.

He'd wait until Kovalev was 40+.

Calzaghe struggled with Kessler who hits nowhere near as hard as Kovalev.

Calzaghe would end up like Cleverly, a drunken slump.

One thing about Kovalev is, he's hard to hit, and his footwork is very underappreciated.

This is one fight id love to watch, Kovalev exposing that fraud.

 

Kovalev is looking like an all time great. We can judge the skills, accuracy and power for ourselves. All excellent.

The scary thing is he's a warrior type who to date has shown a decent chin. I'd say he's proven to take a shot better than average based on the Pascal fights. Suppose his ability to take a punch is very good or excellent?

Who's going to beat him?

I think Ward, who is an excellent pound for pound boxer will be Kovalev's ticket to the hall of fame and I expect Kovalev to win. His debilitating body shots will hurt Ward.

 

yeah even with his hometown judges and protective ref, calzaghe was marginally losing that until kesslers injured hand went,

imagine if he was fighting on neutral territory with uninjured Kessler - joe would lose on points. No wonder he ran away in gibbering fear to another division when mikkel asked for an injury free rematch in Daneland.

 

Kovalev wins in competitive but discisive fashion. Calzaghe was fairly hittable with the straight right hand. Calzaghe does have an iron chin thougg; Robin Reid cracked him with hard right hands over and over and Calzaghe was still relatively unhurt by those shots. Reid was not exactly packing feathers in his gloves either.

 

Reid didn't have half the power of Kovalev.

 

I picked Sergei on points. I don't think Calzaghe will get bold or careless enough to let Kovalev do his best work. Joe's movement and speed will keep him from getting knocked out.. But he won't get close enough to get any real work done and those pitter patter shots won't earn him very many points. He likely gets decked once or twice as well.

 

lol cos he wont get in the ring with him.

 

Got to go with Kovalev on this one. His power > anybody Calzaghe fought and unfortunately he's not only powerful but a darn good boxer too. I think Joe makes a fight of it but gets stopped late, possibly even while ahead on the cards.

 

If he beats Ward, hes definitely an ATG and one of the greatest LHW of all time. (Kovalev that is, not Calzaghe!)

Ward,. Stevenson, Beterbiev and maybe a few top ten fighters and then call it a day.

 

I think it will play out like this (hopefully): Kov beats Ward in a nice s c r a p then takes out Stevenson in a firefight. He makes a few defenses until an all Commie clash with Beterbiev, who crushes the Krusher in 7 rounds.

 

Some diabolic posts in here.

 

Hyberbole aside, certainly. Reid was not a big puncher but probably average to slightly above average puncher IMO. Calzaghe's chin should not even be in question. He took big shots from Kessler and Eubank as well.

 

yeh well very diminished eubank and one armed Kessler anyway.

but still, that counts for something and tells us his chin was certainly not bad.
in fact he relied on his chin to make up for his defensive frailties.