Sergey Kovalev gets KTFO'd in the amateurs

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it was a beautiful counter, i think a lot of guys would've went down from that shot, not sure that makes him chinny tho.

[A_Jeffrey]

how old was Kovalev in that vid? I think it's a pretty old video

[Light_Speed]

Interesting video. He also got dropped by Boone but at least he didn't get KO'd like Stevenson.

Kovalev still over-commits his right hand and doesn't bring it back so he's definitely suceptible to left hook counters, but now he puts the straight left hand behind it and it's a powerful shot. So if you wait for his right hand and try to counter him with a left hook, he might still land first.

[AboutBillions]

Bump, Yall' must have forgot ... The strait Left from Stevenson will send TarzKovalev back to the jungle.

[Daddy T]

Ggg supposedly knocked kovelev the f out in sparring. Crazy to think if it's true.
he also said before he didn't think he had the power to be a professional boxer.

these sparring rumours are getting out of hand. Nobody ever claimed he knocked kovalev out in sparring ... just that kovalav wasn't giving them what they wanted from sparring.

[SN!PER]

Don't bring a knife to a gun fight! If you wanna beat Kov, knock him out before he can hurt you. Nobody wants to box Kov for 12 rounds, that's a suicide mission.

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these sparring rumours are getting out of hand. Nobody ever claimed he knocked kovalev out in sparring ... just that kovalav wasn't giving them what they wanted from sparring.

It may not be true but, Its not unbelievable though KOV would have been agressive like he always is, and GGG would had answered back. In the video KOV is wearing a head guard and the punch that land didn't even look hard, yet KOV he lost his senses before he hit the ground

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it was a beautiful counter, i think a lot of guys would've went down from that shot, not sure that makes him chinny tho.

Well you cant strengthen your chin, you can see him lose his senses before he hit the ground. He's wearing a head guard, and his opponents arms are not as big as Stevenson's.

[MDPopescu]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ULtn1mnbPI

Dont know how to embed

Yeah... This vid is a short version from a Russian longer vid...
It was the Uzbek Abbos Atoyev who KOd Kovalev...
Abbos Atoyev (from the same "Soviet Block") is best known for winning gold in the light heavyweight competition at the 2007 World Championships and at middleweight in 2009.

Ismayl Sillah beat Atoyev easily as an amateur... So...

(The "Soviet school" boxers have very few things in common with your "slick boys".)

[MDPopescu]

how old was Kovalev in that vid? I think it's a pretty old video

I think that the Atoyev fight was back in 2007...

Kovalev wasn't even one of the most successful Russian fighters at the amateurs -- Matvey Korobov and Artur Beterberiev were better than Kov at that time...