Comments Thread For: Kovalev-Pascal: Chilemba-Lepikhin Added To HBO Show

[JakeNDaBox]

Main Events and Interbox announced Wednesday that the NABF Light Heavyweight Title fight between Isaac "Golden Boy" Chilemba vs. Vasily "The Professor" Lepikhin will be the opening bout of the HBO World Championship Boxing tripleheader featuring the Unified Light Heavyweight Champion Sergey "Krusher" Kovalev vs. Jean Pascal in the main event and heavyweights Vyacheslav "Czar" Glazkov vs. Steve "USS" Cunningham in the co-feature on Saturday, March 14 live from the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The HBOŽ telecast begins at 9 :45 p.m. ET/PT. [Click Here To Read More]

[MDPopescu]

The Russians move to Canada.

[Hougigo]

This is opening?

Wow... like this fight

[The Hammer]

Fairly even matchup.

Lepikhin almost died after an auto accident and couldn't box for several years. He isn't as lethal a puncher as some of the other East Europeans like Kovalev, Shabranskyy and Gvozdyk.

But he's decent enough to make this an interesting fight.

[have_not]

Nice fight, this is a helluva card!

[smoothsmg]

Nice fight, this is a helluva card!

Yes, and the fact that HBO will actually show more than two fights is such a great thing.

[richardt]

I like Chilemba but he almost always seems to come up a little short.

[CTC JOHNNY]

This card is starting to sizzle up a bit !!!

[bazookajoe]

Best card I've seen in a while for a Canadian show.

That's one hell of a triple header... Looks like HBO opened up the vault for this show

For our collective benefit !!!

Edit: i can't truly call a winner in all 3 fights.