why were people Hypercritical of SERGEY kOVALAEV LAST NIGHT?

[killamoneymike]

Exactly. People act as if Agnew was some shot fighter, or one that was never good. As far as I could tell he was pretty DAM good. Just not ready for the power of Kovalev, no one is. But he looked like he had a few tricks up his sleeve and wasn't undefeated for just no reason. Well Kovalev dropped him 3 times and stopped him, with a jab to the body. Thats impressive enough for me.

[ImStillHere]

If you go back in the '60s or the '70 you could have seeen that such ******ities were not allowed...

Thats BS, Why are you lying? Fighters always fought the best competition? Do you really want me to disprove this or will you just admit this is a blatant lie?

[MDPopescu]

Thats BS, Why are you lying? Fighters always fought the best competition? Do you really want me to disprove this or will you just admit this is a blatant lie?

You young, doe...

[jas]

Mdpopespcu has forgotten more about boxing than you hAve ever learnt imstillhere. You are out of your depth.

[thechampizhere]

Sergey looked scary last night.. I don't know what fight people were watching but Agnew ran for his life the entire fight.. This was similar to ggg vs Stevens, but at least Stevens did try to let his hands go and you see the outcome.. If Agnew would have let his hands go the fight would've been over early.. Kovalev has legit scary power in both hands, a jab to the body ended it and he was hitting the same spot from the first round with that left jab to the body, **** is, that left jab is like a Manny Pacquiao straight left.. I would like to see ggg vs Kovalev.. Two cerebral assassins..

[slimshandy69]

Sergey looked scary last night.. I don't know what fight people were watching but Agnew ran for his life the entire fight.. This was similar to ggg vs Stevens, but at least Stevens did try to let his hands go and you see the outcome.. If Agnew would have let his hands go the fight would've been over early.. Kovalev has legit scary power in both hands, a jab to the body ended it and he was hitting the same spot from the first round with that left jab to the body, **** is, that left jab is like a Manny Pacquiao straight left.. I would like to see ggg vs Kovalev.. Two cerebral assassins..

good post. if andre ward or mayweathe rput in a perfornace like that some people on here would be going mental.

[Mikhnienko]

Believe me: I don't like Russians per se...
But I always liked their school of boxing...
... I'm beginning to think that I'll not live long enough in order to watch a fight between a "slick Russian" and a "slick American"... (I don't include here the Ukrainians -- they developed a different pro boxing style)...

... maybe Golovkin will fight Ward, though...

Aren't too many slick Russians even if they have the skills and athletic attributes they still usually fight too aggressive for fans to classify them as such. Kostya and Nazarov were slick but very heavy handed and aggressive, Pirog was genuinely slick but Martinez didn't want any part of him.

Currently Golovkin has a very high all around skill level and subtle defensive skills you could classify as slick similar to the best pressure fighters like Chavez sr or Duran but again the power and aggression means people won't classify him as that. Korobov is very athletically gifted and fought more as a boxer/puncher/counterpuncher in the amateura but has adopted a much more aggressive Jirov type style in the pros.

If you're talking about all FSU boxers Lomachenko and Usyk are probably the slickest and Lomachenko vs Russell would fall into that category and should be a good one.

[US Dirk Killer]

Kovalev a bum

[US Dirk Killer]

7 rounds like a split decision robbery by kovalev standards

[MDPopescu]

Aren't too many slick Russians even if they have the skills and athletic attributes they still usually fight too aggressive for fans to classify them as such. Kostya and Nazarov were slick but very heavy handed and aggressive, Pirog was genuinely slick but Martinez didn't want any part of him.

Currently Golovkin has a very high all around skill level and subtle defensive skills you could classify as slick similar to the best pressure fighters like Chavez sr or Duran but again the power and aggression means people won't classify him as that. Korobov is very athletically gifted and fought more as a boxer/puncher/counterpuncher in the amateura but has adopted a much more aggressive Jirov type style in the pros.

If you're talking about all FSU boxers Lomachenko and Usyk are probably the slickest and Lomachenko vs Russell would fall into that category and should be a good one.

In my perspective, we may label as "slicks" fighters from the "Russian School" guys such as Lemeshev, Tszyu, Pirog, Golovkin, Kovalev... the "Russian slicks" are very different from the "American slicks"...

The "Russian school" seems somehow more "minimalist" as compared to the North American and even the Ukrainian ones... But in terms of "minimalism", the "Cuban school" topples the Russian school...

That's my perception...