Comments Thread For: Beterbiev Wants To Put Kovalev 'Back In His Place'

[yoshik]

Kovalev accuracy last 5 fights before Pascal : average 29% punch landed
Beterbiev Accuracy vs Cloud and Jeff Page Jr (I don't count before since they are no more good quality fighter) Average 42% punches landed.

I doubt beterbiev stole the win vs Kovalev.

....jumping on Beterbievs train. Shows you you clowns know NOTHING abut either fighter. Kov blows him away in 5. Beterbiev will come to prove a point and get KOd. You people are unbelievable. Pascal beats Beterbiev.

[yoshik]

Unless those Russian judges were ****** I have a hard time believing they'd gift Beterbiev decisions over their fellow Christian Kovalev.

Boy that's a stretch.....how did you come up with that?

[Cutthroat]

Those guys are not the norm they are outliers.

Beterbiev was an amazing amateur, his record is on par with anybody, just got robbed way too many times. Should've won gold like 2x.

What is really impressive is the boxing skills he displayed in the amateurs and his sheer power. I believe he was severely held back in the amateur ranks, his style is better suited for the pros, primarily because he's a power puncher.

[yoshik]

7 and 0 should get you no shot. I don't care what happened in the amateurs. Kovalev is on the verge of stardom who the hell cares what this other scrub is doing at the moment.

Exactly. Beterbiev is no Vasyl Lomachenko

[Cutthroat]

I noticed Kovalev doesn't like getting hit with body shots, against Pascal, even Caparello had him backing down and dropping his guard. Neither guy possesses anything close to Beterbiev's power.

If you look at Kovalev's record, he does not fight power punchers and has 0 impressive wins against any. The hardest puncher he's ever faced was Sillakh, fresh off a KO loss against Grachev.


Beterbiev throws short powerful, accurate punches, he knows how to loop his punches around his opponents guard very well, he works the body very well too. He's a bit flawed defensively, but has an iron chin, never been legitimately knocked down.

This will be a great fight, I will bet my points on Beterbiev.

[Weebler I]

The hardest puncher he's ever faced was Sillakh, fresh off a KO loss against Grachev.

I would say it's Darnell Boone.

[Cutthroat]

I would say it's Darnell Boone.

I forgot about him, but he did hurt Kovalev in their first fight, heard Kovalev barely made it out. Although there is no film I'm inclined to believe it based on Boone's past success dropping guys, as well as Kovalev's history.


I think Kovalev's body is very vulnerable, I just remembered GGG also dropped Kovalev with a body shot in sparring.

[Weebler I]

I forgot about him, but he did hurt Kovalev in their first fight, heard Kovalev barely made it out. Although there is no film I'm inclined to believe it based on Boone's past success dropping guys, as well as Kovalev's history.

I think Kovalev's body is very vulnerable, I just remembered GGG also dropped Kovalev with a body shot in sparring.

Fair point, Pascal seemed to hurt him with a body shot too. I think Beterbiev's biggest challenge will be cutting distance and getting close enough to do real damage.

[The Hammer]

Beterbiev ducked Chilemba.

Kovalev has never been afraid to fight anyone, anywhere, anytime.

[SugarRaRobinson]

Sounds like your hedging for Kov , I say let them fight it out to see . Furthermore if it's true what happened in the amatures , then Biev has a right to feel a bit undersold . If u were Biev and u know damn well that Kov was ur bi.ch back on the Eastern European chitterling boxing circuit , wouldn't u feel some kind of way if he came to the states first and became this meteoric superstar ? I think Biev is Kov's ghost from Christmas past !