My Initial Thoughts On When The Chelyabinsk Krusher Meets The Cinnamon Boy Of Guadalajara.

While I know this is a bit of a stretch, and it's always not applicable across the board. But, sometimes there is some truth to be found by comparing the punching power of fighters through shared opponents. Especially when they've shared two.

Okay, I think we can all agree after seeing him pulverize poor Groves and eviscerate N'Dam, Callum Smith is a fairly heavy handed fighter right? Well here he is sharing the ring with teak tough war horse Nikola Sjekloca, he beat and beat and beat on poor Nikola, and to no avail, he just couldn't manage to put him away. Not even in 12 rounds. It was a by the numbers victory, nothing spectacular, in fact, i's quite a dull watch.

Callum Smith vs. Nikola Sjekloca

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Here's Anthony Yarde facing Nikola, who had still yet to be stopped. Yarde beat the stuffings out of him, dropped him 2 times and stopped him in the 4th round. He utterly destroyed him. Almost unpleasant to watch.

Anthony Yarde vs Nikola Sjekloca

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Now onto the second shared opponent of theirs. The thoroughly average punching bag Norbert Nemesapati. Callum pounded on him throughout, finally dropping him in the 6th, forcing his corner to pull him out. It was a beatdown, but a long drawn out one.

Callum Smith vs. Norbert Nemesapati

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Here's Yarde absolutely mangling poor Norbert, he took him out in three, in an a borderline hard to watch pulverizing. He dropped him twice in the second round, and his corner mercifully pulled him out at the end of a ghoulishly one sided 3rd.

Anthony Yarde vs. Norbert Nemesapati

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Not saying this is definitive proof or anything, but evidence is pointing in the direction that Yarde is a waaaaaay bigger puncher than Callum Smith.

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Well here's Callum, who's not close to being the puncher Yarde is, absolutely demolishing Rocky Fielding in all of a whopping 2 minutes and 45 seconds, dropping him three times in the process. Now mind you, Rocky wasn't just standing there letting Callum tee off on him.

Callum Smith vs. Rocky Fielding

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Now here's Rocky just standing in the phone booth like a moron with Canelo, who was literally teeing off on him, granted, he did drop Rocky 4 times. But in 3 whole rounds.. How pathetic. For further evidence of Fielding fragility, Rocky was also seconds away from being brutally KO'd by Christopher Rebrasse, otherwise known as the Paulie Malignaggi of Super Middleweight, who has a grand total of 6 KO's in 34 matches. I scored it on here. Since the internet has been scrubbed of all footage, here's the only remaining evidence. He had him out on his feet the next round as well.
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Canelo Alvarez vs. Rocky Fielding

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Now what does this prove? Absolutely nothing definitive. But as Kovalev vs. Canelo draws near..... it is some real food for thought.

But to speculate.... Canelo at 168 is nowhere near as powerful as Callum Smith, and Callum Smith is nowhere near as powerful as Yarde, and a tired Kovalev ate flush bombs from the very large Yarde, didn't go down and powered through them. Now if Canelo can even get past hat punishing jab of his, who's to say he can come close to hurting him. But another question that needs to be answered is, how hard does Kovalev punch compared to Jacobs and GGG? To hazard a guess.... at 175, probably a lot harder.

Remember folks, weight divisions exist for a reason. Smith and Yarde aremore than solid proof of that.

 

A little more to munch on.... in regards to the power differential between Kovalev and Canelo.

Non Drained Fonfara teeing off on a shot to hell Kovalev KO4 victim Nathan "KO4Clev" Cleverly for 12 rounds.

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Here's Non Drained Fonfara going 9 with Kovalev KO3 victim Campillo.

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A DRAINED to SMW Fonfara teeing off on a non drained full fledged Julio Jr.

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Canelo teeing off on an even more shot to hell and drained Julio Jr. for 12 ROUNDS.

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Do you now understand the power difference between Kovalev and Canelo? Yes, even still.

 

Holy ****, I just rewatched Canelo vs. Fielding for the first time since December. Canelo was clearly gassing by the third round. Jesus. Thankfully for him he'd done enough damage in the first two he was able to get it over with.

 

That analogy isn't applicable here. The reason Szpilka got taken out by Chisora and Kownacki quicker than he did against Wilder is truly all down to a style clash. Wilder likes to lay back and look for the perfect punch, and if you do that, Szpilka who in the center of the ring is defensively quite sound, the way to take him out and quickly, is pour on the pressure, which Wilder doesn't do. However had Wilder went in there windmilling like a maniac from the opening bell, Artur doesn't see the second round.

Whereas Smith and Yarde, while they don't fight exactly alike, they both are consistently landing clean shots repeatedly on two fairly defenseless targets from the outside, so that gives a far truer comparison than that one.