Kovalev's skills

[therealpugilist]

Kovalev has serious issues with balance and squaring up, but otherwise he has a very solid set of skills. Good with distance, good jab, good combinations, good counter-punching. He relies too much on retreating backwards to avoid shots but his defense is far from bad.

The man is dangerous for many reasons besides power.

that wont be a good idea, considering Ward throws lead lefts hooks(leaping), lead rights, and steps into his jabs very well......

[TheBoxingXpert]

Kovalev has serious issues with balance and squaring up, but otherwise he has a very solid set of skills. Good with distance, good jab, good combinations, good counter-punching. He relies too much on retreating backwards to avoid shots but his defense is far from bad.

The man is dangerous for many reasons besides power.

Kovalev's balance and defense issues are not just serious, they're VERY serious. As for his skills, he doesn't have the neccessary ones to beat Ward.

It takes an ability to constantly throw enough fast punches to bother Ward's defense. I would probably have picked Calzaghe over Ward, if they ever fought. Calzaghe got the tools to bother Ward. Kovalev doesn't. No one at 175 does.

[Kigali]

Kovalev's performance against Chilemba was actually pretty good. Nobody has ever floored Isaac or beaten him clearly before. Chilemba's losses to Bellew and Alvarez were both very close and could have gone either way.

Tony Bellew beat him clearly....so did Alvarez.

The only thing that could have gone either way is your sexuality.

[kafkod]

Dude, it's not about getting it right on a 50/50 fight. It's about predicting the exact outcome and how the fight would play out. Check the comments in the thread, if you doubt it.

And what's more, it's not just this fight. My predictions are correct all the time. Just like this one will be when Ward spanks Kovalev. Our posting history is documented here, y'know?

Ward will secure me yet another correct prediction on my unstopable winning streak and more haters like you will pop up to say "you just got lucky!". Will I still be lucky when I have predicted 10 "50-50" fights, without ever being wrong? Ward-Kovalev may seem 50-50 to casuals, but not to experts. More like 90-10. Their skills are worlds apart.

You have exposed yourself with your comments on Kovalev as someone who's opinions are not to be taken seriously on that subject. If you were saying that Kovalev was a good fighter, with skill as well as power, but Ward was even better, I could respect that, but ..

Let me put it this way, a friend of mine thinks that Slash is a better guitarist than Hendricks. I disagree with him about that and we have had endless discussions on the merits of both.

But when somebody once said to me, "Hendricks was ****, no skill at all, just thrashed the strings and relied on volume and feedback" I knew there was no point trying to explain to him what Hendricks did that made him a great guitarist. That's the way I feel about you re Kovalev.

[therealpugilist]

Tony Bellew beat him clearly....so did Alvarez.

The only thing that could have gone either way is your sexuality.

daaaaaaaaaaayuuum...that was low, yet funny...i like your style...bwahahahahahahaha

[Kigali]

daaaaaaaaaaayuuum...that was low, yet funny...i like your style...bwahahahahahahaha

He walked right into it....as if nobody saw those fights but him...or youtube doesn't exist.

[RussB23]

Caparello stepped on his foot. Kovalev lost balance because he had the full force of a foot of a 175lb man on his foot, so he fell.


Guys on here trying to pick apart Kovalev's childhood, life, story and family history for the next 3 months, trying to convince yourself and everyone on NSB why you believe Kovalev will lose...


Meanwhile, on November 17th, Kovalev will easily outclass and destroy Andre Ward..... and then all of this will be pointless

How is he going to "outclass" a guy with superior defense and boxing skills? Pretty dumb statement, if kovalev wins its going to be due to his power shots . He isnt going to outclass Ward simply because his skillset is inferior. The only thing he does better than ward is have more power.

[Madison Boxing]

lol i love how the hopkins win is totally discredited now as him being old. There were so many of you, and so many experts tipping hopkins to outbox him and saying kovalevs limited, just like you are now with ward.

[RussB23]

Kovalev has decent boxing skills but not on Wards level, he does have legit knockout power though that cant end the fight at any time thats what makes it a dangerous fight for ward. Kovalev's main weapon is his right hand and i see Ward taking that away from him and outboxing him to a unanimous decision.

[Madison Boxing]

unfortunately you can keep trying to convince yourselves, but your golden boy son of god is getting his head taken off in november. 5 years of **** fights and inactivity isnt going to prepare him for kovalev. Ward cant bully kovalev on the inside like he does other fighters, cant wrestle him