Sergey Kovalev vs Dmitry Bivol

kov krush biv (UD)

 

Youth.

Kovalev is one of my favourite fighter's ever but Bivol would probably edge him out over 12 now. I'd prefer a better styles match up with Beterbiev for Kova....

 

Kovalev had no problems with pascal but bivol looked average against an older rusty pascal so I’m picking Kovalev

 

Why are there two options with “Bivol by UD.”? This messes up the polling and quite frankly offends me. Mods can you fix it? Thanks, its really causing me such anxiety just looking at it.

 

You know the last two fights of Bivol have not been impressive to me. Yes he beat a limit puncher in Joe Smith and Struggled with a Pascal. Styles make fights, one thing i'm learning about Bivol is that he can be caught and caught clean. Of course Sergey has his problems to but, this fight would take place on both of the backfoots an outside affair. In which i do believe Sergey has the advantage, now if Bivol makes it a dog fight slips Sergey's shot's and volume punches from mid to close range i'd pick Bivol!

 

bivol UD

 

I think Bivol is actually the more skilled of the two but hes a SMW, not a LHW. Kovalev T/KO

 

Bivol doesn't have the size to rough Kovalev up, and it's not his style to go for the KO. Kovalev with Mcgirt now wants to just box instead of looking for the KO. In style vs style Kovalev has a rock solid jab and more power than bivol. This will probably wear Bivol down. Kovalev by UD if not stoppage.

 

Don't count Kov out
TKO

 

As skilled as Bivol is, Kova is the better judge of distance and slightly more skilled at fighting at his distance. Hes longer, better at range, and way heavier handed. Worst matchup for Bivol imo, or Gvozdyk.

 

Pick 'em.

 

I actually give Bivol a decent chance. While Kovalev has longer reach with jabs, Bivol uses angles damn well and should be able to avoid most straight shots. Kovalev hits harder, but Bivol has better defense and faster hands. If Dmitri uses his superior footwork, to close the distance from an angle, he can force Kovalev to fight at short range, where he is not very comfortable. Definitely a fight I'd love to see.