Comments Thread For: Kovalev, Bivol, Beterbiev Create a Red Dawn at 175-Pounds

[Madison Boxing]

Gvozdyk's chin is suspect, other than that he fights intelligently, has height/ range / size on most of his opponents and natural power. He has good footwork / movement but we will see if that is taxing on him when faced with the elite.

In any case he is more proven than Bivol

Yeah he looks better than bivol but i dont see elite.level talent there, time will tell!!

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Red Menace

[Shane1091]

The division is loaded by good eastern europeans and all of them are exciting and have power. I'm sure Chickenson ain't fighting any of them.

They have power but with the likes of Bivol he has the boxing skills to go with it along with Kovalev. With Beterbiev he is a bit a robotic but am sure we'll see the best if him when he has to step it up... Just hope they don't fights Bums milking there belt Kovalev already is.

[Tobi.G]

They have power but with the likes of Bivol he has the boxing skills to go with it along with Kovalev. With Beterbiev he is a bit a robotic but am sure we'll see the best if him when he has to step it up... Just hope they don't fights Bums milking there belt Kovalev already is.

Kovalev is the proven one and we know what he can do but you are right Bivol seemns to be the full package but im looking forward to the Barrera-fight, if he beats Barrera without problems hes for real!

[Randall Cunning]

Why would Kovalev and Beterbiev wait until 2019 to unify? They are already either at the end of their primes or past their primes. The writer doesn't know what he's talking about. If there is no unification fight by July this year, boxing is a joke again. The time is now. These fights have marinated too long already. All these guys (Kovalev, Beterbiev, Stevenson) should have fought each other 2-3 years ago. No need to wait any longer. To suggest otherwise is ridiculous, and exactly what is ruining boxing. Do you want to see good fights or not? Then pro tip: make the ****ing fights before Kovalev turns 35, and Beterbiev turns 34. Those are decline ages. Just look at GGG. Make the fights already, hot dayum. Can't believe the ignorance of some boxing writers. They are already 34 and 33 respectively! Stevenson is already almost 40! Make the ****ing fights already! It's ALREADY too late to get the best fights out of those matchups. Now you want to wait even longer? Unbelievable. Exactly the attitude that is ruining boxing. EXACTLY the attitude.

Sounding awfully like Beterbiev is gunna be lucky to get a fight in 2018. He's still got issues, Top Rank have said he cant fight again with them til hes sorted out his promotional issues, only reason he got to fight last year was because Top Rank won the purse bid. Still got his GYM problems.

[Shadoww702]

The division is loaded by good eastern europeans and all of them are exciting and have power. I'm sure Chickenson ain't fighting any of them.

When he does he's getting put to ZZZzzz

[Shadoww702]

Just because Kovalov lost a VERY controversial decision to Ward and then was allowed to have his nutz pummeled repeatedly doesn't mean he's still not a P4P Top 10. I'm a Ward fan and still don't know who is better...

[slimPickings]

"HBO considers Bivol a prodigy"...Lets see how he fares against Barrera a proven quantity.

[Commie]

Commie takeover of another Division

[Derranged]

Why is Stevenson even mentioned? He’s a bum and even as an American we have to be unbiased enough to call a spade a spade. He ducked every challenge that he could and he is holding the WBC belt ransom. I don’t know how he has avoided fighting a threat for so long.

I wouldn't call Stevenson a bum but he's done fuck all in years. He's 40, inactive and doesn't seem to have much interest in fighting. I can't believe how many people would favor him over Kovalev in a fight.