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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Sergey Kovalev aced the interview. Then he got the job.
And this weekend in Las Vegas, he heads into the office for the first time.
The three-belt light heavyweight champion scored the most significant victories of his career in his last two fights battering Bernard Hopkins over 12 rounds and stopping Jean Pascal in eight and returns to the ring Saturday night against top-ranked IBF contender Nadjib Mohammedi.
The 30-year-old Frenchman is a 10-year professional with 37 wins and 23 knockouts in 40 fights, though hes never fought for a world title and dropped a unanimous decision in 2010 to the same foe Welshman Nathan Cleverly who was halted in four rounds by Kovalev nearly three years later.
Kovalev concedes to having not done a whole lot of Mohammedi research.
I know almost nothing about him, he said. [Click Here To Read More]
And this weekend in Las Vegas, he heads into the office for the first time.
The three-belt light heavyweight champion scored the most significant victories of his career in his last two fights battering Bernard Hopkins over 12 rounds and stopping Jean Pascal in eight and returns to the ring Saturday night against top-ranked IBF contender Nadjib Mohammedi.
The 30-year-old Frenchman is a 10-year professional with 37 wins and 23 knockouts in 40 fights, though hes never fought for a world title and dropped a unanimous decision in 2010 to the same foe Welshman Nathan Cleverly who was halted in four rounds by Kovalev nearly three years later.
Kovalev concedes to having not done a whole lot of Mohammedi research.
I know almost nothing about him, he said. [Click Here To Read More]
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