If Kovalev can't get these chickens to fight him should he go to cw?

[Earl-Hickey]

He's a big light heavy and has plenty of room to add some size

If chickens on and andre fraud both duck him there are real challenges at 200lbs

Kovalev vs Usyk, anyone?

[MOMENTO MORI]

yeah he should dare to be great and gain 25lbs.

[Rip Chudd]

yeah he should dare to be great and gain 25lbs.

Kovalev has fought at cruiserweight before

[daggum]

i think he should move up to cruiserweight. he should win the lineal title at 176 and then start having all his fight at 176.

[_original_]

After the Ward fight perhaps, only if he's having trouble with the weight as there seems to be bigger fights at LHW if they can be made. What money/legacy fight is there at CW? I know the division is pretty underrated but not much attention there.

[Foreign Soil]

Nah. CW division is so disorganized, that it wouldn't make much sense even if he can't get more "high profile" fights at LHW.

[Earl-Hickey]

After the Ward fight perhaps, only if he's having trouble with the weight as there seems to be bigger fights at LHW if they can be made. What money/legacy fight is there at CW? I know the division is pretty underrated but not much attention there.

[Champ Wilder]

Usyk is talented as hell! He beat Artur Beterbiev twice and Artur beat Kovalev twice in the amateurs.

[El-blanco]

25 pounds is a huge jump and frame wise you can see those guys are way bigger than Kovalev. Usyk is huge, along with guys like mukabu, kalinga, etc. those guys have to shrink themselves down to 200. He's not going to be able to go there and work guys like he does now. Skill wise he's better than all of them aside from maybe usyk but it's a steep mountain to climb being that undersized.

[ironmike2012]

No, he would be small against 200 pounds. Plus as others said no legacy fight.
If there was a Holyfield (great cw) then yeah.
He needs to clean out 175 first. There is Duck, Ward, Beterbiev, Fonfara etc.