"Alien" Hopkins vs "Krusher" Kovalev Post fight Discussion thread

[King_]

Not to mention he lacks a jab also which is going to make it very difficult for him to find Hopkins so he can land those mid range punches on his chin. Therefore one can expect a lot of movement and circling from Bernard in order to exploit this flaw of his game.

He lacks a jab? I'm not sure where you're getting this info from....? Kovalev has a great jab.


He's gotten a knockout this year with a jab to the body

[Cechmate]

Kovalev is gonna get his wig pushed back.

[jas]

No but we can. If Hopkins wins you get all of my points and I change my avi to any of your choosing (pm it to me) for a month


If Kovalev wins you send me the same amount of points and I send you an avi and you rock it for a month.


How does that sound?

Lol I got loads of other avi bets totalling to over a month so let's just do 3 days

[jas]

Kovalev is gonna get his wig pushed back.

This kid knows what's up.

[champion4ever]

He lacks a jab? I'm not sure where you're getting this info from....? Kovalev has a great jab.


He's gotten a knockout this year with a jab to the body

That might be very well true but he lacks a consistent one. The one in which Jermaine Taylor implemented against Bernard Hopkins in defeating him twice and by mostly fighting off the back foot; Which is not Kovalev's style.

However, if the Krusher does have a great jab, then I just haven't seen it aside from the KO of his most recent opponent to the body and that was mostly from a power jab.

Mostly of what I have seen of him is catching guys fighting off the front foot, who've chosen to stand and trade punches with him at mid range or by laying on the ropes, while he swarms them with a volume of short and circular power punches while leaving his chin exposed in the process.

[King_]

Lol I got loads of other avi bets totalling to over a month so let's just do 3 days

Lol okay. 3 days is cool. We'll talk about it after the fight

[Hougigo]

Somebody kept asking about the purses

Purses for #HopkinsKovalev: BHop $1M (plus % of profits), Kovalev $500k (plus % of profits), Ali $100k, Abregu $75k. #boxing

— Dan Rafael (@danrafaelespn) November 8, 2014

[mathed]

Somebody kept asking about the purses

Purses for #HopkinsKovalev: BHop $1M (plus % of profits), Kovalev $500k (plus % of profits), Ali $100k, Abregu $75k. #boxing

— Dan Rafael (@danrafaelespn) November 8, 2014

Damn Abregu getting treated like a scrub when he is going to serve Ali up on a platter. Dude has been fighting plummers, he won via SD against a dude that was 17-3 in his last fight.....he's getting KO'd.

[BTL]

Somebody kept asking about the purses

Purses for #HopkinsKovalev: BHop $1M (plus % of profits), Kovalev $500k (plus % of profits), Ali $100k, Abregu $75k. #boxing

— Dan Rafael (@danrafaelespn) November 8, 2014

How much do percentage of profits come out to?

[BTL]

That might be very well true but he lacks a consistent one. The one in which Jermaine Taylor implemented against Bernard Hopkins in defeating him twice and by mostly fighting off the back foot; Which is not Kovalev's style.

However, if the Krusher does have a great jab, then I just haven't seen it aside from the KO of his most recent opponent to the body and that was mostly from a power jab.

Mostly of what I have seen of him is catching guys fighting off the front foot, who've chosen to stand and trade punches with him at mid range or by laying on the ropes, while he swarms them with a volume of short and circular power punches while leaving his chin exposed in the process.

Idk if u watched his fights but sergey works everything behind that jab, so it is very consistent. .. most people are riding off sergey as him being just a slugger but hes not, hes actualky a nice boxer with power... whats a trip is most of his punches dont look like power punches but just punches... very fluid. .. if sergey fights like he akways does with just a little bit of extra pressure he finishes bernard.