Comments Thread For: Sergey Kovalev vs. Isaac Chilemba: The Obstacle

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By Cliff Rold - One might find fights that will sell more tickets or draw more money, but for many entrenched boxing fans there is one date on the calendar this year. November 19. That's the Saturday in Las Vegas when unified light heavyweight titlist Sergey Kovalev...
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[Larry the boss]

A **** fight, coming off a loss and still get a shot at unified titles..Ward-Kovalev better be next

[Citizen Koba]

A **** fight, coming off a loss and still get a shot at unified titles..Ward-Kovalev better be next

Mmmmm. Hard to think of a better opponent they could have found. Have a lil look down the LHW rankings. Stevenson? No. Eleiders fighting Sad Chad. Joe Smith or Fonfara? No. Beterbiev? Just fought. Braehmer? Good luck with that. Pascal III? Cleverly II? Fatass Jr?

Yeah, sure Kovalev has to be an overwhelming favourite, but Chilemba's a tough dude who's good at making guys look bad. Kinda like the Bika of 175. As good a fight as could have been made waiting for November.

[Marvlus Marv]

Chilemba is one of Duva's fighters so it's an easy fight to make and besides Kovalev hardly needs to prove himself against a top 10 - we know he's the best, but Ward is going from fighting mediocre tune-ups to Kovalev. It's a quantum leap he's going to be making come November. He appears to be underestimating the Krusher.

[Butt stuff]

Mmmmm. Hard to think of a better opponent they could have found. Have a lil look down the LHW rankings. Stevenson? No. Eleiders fighting Sad Chad. Joe Smith or Fonfara? No. Beterbiev? Just fought. Braehmer? Good luck with that. Pascal III? Cleverly II? Fatass Jr?

Yeah, sure Kovalev has to be an overwhelming favourite, but Chilemba's a tough dude who's good at making guys look bad. Kinda like the Bika of 175. As good a fight as could have been made waiting for November.

Chilemba's scrappy style (I agree with what you said; the Bika of 175) might show some gaps in Kov's game that Ward would take advantage of. It could possibly give us more of an indicator of how that fight will go down if Chilemba can get inside and smother/frustrate.

I think it's an interesting fight, very possibly just another mismatch but you never know!..

[BillyBoxing]

A **** fight, coming off a loss and still get a shot at unified titles..Ward-Kovalev better be next

A MD loss to the number 4 of the division.

[PunchyPotorff]

A **** fight, coming off a loss and still get a shot at unified titles..Ward-Kovalev better be next

Common knowledge. It is next.

Mmmmm. Hard to think of a better opponent they could have found. Have a lil look down the LHW rankings. Stevenson? No. Eleiders fighting Sad Chad. Joe Smith or Fonfara? No. Beterbiev? Just fought. Braehmer? Good luck with that. Pascal III? Cleverly II? Fatass Jr?

Yeah, sure Kovalev has to be an overwhelming favourite, but Chilemba's a tough dude who's good at making guys look bad. Kinda like the Bika of 175. As good a fight as could have been made waiting for November.

Exactly. If Kovalev crushes the crafty and slick Chilemba, it's definitely a statement leading up to the Ward fight.

[NEETzsche]

A **** fight, coming off a loss and still get a shot at unified titles..Ward-Kovalev better be next

it's funny, people act like alvarez is a big fight for stevenson but kovalev fighting the guy who beat alvarez (in reality) is a **** fight? goes to show who is the real champion at LHW

[Cinci Champ]

Mmmmm. Hard to think of a better opponent they could have found. Have a lil look down the LHW rankings. Stevenson? No. Eleiders fighting Sad Chad. Joe Smith or Fonfara? No. Beterbiev? Just fought. Braehmer? Good luck with that. Pascal III? Cleverly II? Fatass Jr?

Yeah, sure Kovalev has to be an overwhelming favourite, but Chilemba's a tough dude who's good at making guys look bad. Kinda like the Bika of 175. As good a fight as could have been made waiting for November.

ya i have no problem with either ward or kovalevs fight both give fighters chance at a tuneup and lets them stay active and pocket some money. the other option was neither of them fight before their fight. was smart decision tho make the date public before hand tho so that these fights can be seen for what they are and thats stay active fights