Comments Thread For: Kovalev-Mohammedi To Land in June or July, on HBO

[Weebler I]

Noooo just wait for stevenson

Kovalev has to defend against his IBF mandatory or face being stripped.

HBO better put on a strong co-feature because this is a garbage fight.

[Jloro]

Kovalev has to defend against his IBF mandatory or face being stripped.

HBO better put on a strong co-feature because this is a garbage fight.

Oh damn. Well at least we can see kovalev put another guy to bed haha.

[daggum]

mohammedi ali will beat kovalev via rope a dope

[STREET CLEANER]

I respect more a champ when he defends against his mandatories

[paypayvay]

Atleast he's giving us GGG matchups because he's already fought top 3-4 fighters in his division. Unlike this guy who is being put in top10 p4p without beating anyone in the top5 in his own division. Arguably not even top10 guys lol.

that's ridiculous .

Geale was top 4 when GGG beat him .

[The Big Dunn]

Nothing wrong with KOv defending against his mandatory as part of his HBO contract. This allows him to fight Stevenson later this year on ppv or NBC, assuming Stevenson is serious about fighting him which we can't be sure about.

Kov beats pascal, his mando, and Stevenson this year and he deserves FOTY again.

[North Star]

Nice! I am already looking forward to the next fight for Kovalev. He is must see TV along with Golovkin. I anticipate the day when they have both guys on a double header.

[SN!PER]

Kovalev is going to beat up Arthur Abraham's younger brother.

[Hougigo]

Kovalev has to defend against his IBF mandatory or face being stripped.

HBO better put on a strong co-feature because this is a garbage fight.

They should just put it in Russia and broadcast it.
Co-feature will probably be one of her guys.....not expecting anything big

[MDPopescu]

His fans say that "No MW wants him", "Cotto and Canelo ducking", "Quillin doesn't want it". But it doesn't matter because it's a weak division with no stand-out fighter. And beating 5' 7" JMW's like Canelo and Cotto is not going to help either.

LHW has Hopkins, Pascal, Stevenson in the top 3(excluding Kovalev himself of course); and Kovalev beat 2/3 of that list. In GGG's case, it doesn't matter if he beats Cotto, Quillin and Martinez, the top 3 other than himself. Martinez is old, injury prone, been KO'ed by short/small Cotto, lost to Murray. Quillin has beaten no one of note. And Cotto is too short and small for a guy who will be a LHW on fight night.

... Andy Lee, Quillin, Saunders, Lemieux, Jacobs, N'Dam are also there... Canelo wants to be there... While Cotto doesn't even count.