Is kovalev shot at this point?

[Southpawology]

Shot fighters dont avenge their previous KO loss in dominating fashion.

[R_Walken]

Right. Fighters can be in wars coming up and make little. They can even be avoided in their prime. Being on the decline can often earn them their most lucrative fights against one of the few superstars. Being good and foreign doesn’t help u get fights against the cash cows. Lose a few times, make a comeback and you just might make more as a “name” opponent to a Star.

Pretty Much nailed it

That’s how the sport been operating for decades .

If a fighter is Top Shelf And isn’t backed by a Powerbroker in the Sport. He’ll almost certainly get avoided by All the fighters of his actual era that have clout and backed by the Powerbrokers in and around his weight class. They’ll just wait him out. That fighter will almost certainly spend his prime never fighting many if any at all the other elites of his era. Being able to showi his true Greatness , he’s too dangerous and almost guaranteed doesn’t have the clout in the sport to be a attraction .

But once he’s in the Championship Rounds with the real Undefeated Champ of the sport Father Time. That fighter will start getting all the calls to fight the current eras stars , They get to make their name bolster their Resume with the illusion that it was bigger W then it actually is when they take his scalp


Boxing is so f.ucked. A business based on popularity contests and who you’re associated with that masquerades as a Sport, Those 2 factors almost always determines a fighters Career Ceiling.Takent or Skill is just a small part of the equation

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Did him going 12 with Eleider Alvarez showed you he can still fight at elite level?


Seeing guys like Yarde and a middleweight calling out the Krusher and him not wanting anything to do with the other LHW champions makes me wonder if he is just cashing out

He’s declining but is still a very technically skilled fighter and everyone knows the power is the last thing to go. He remains a tough fight for anyone at 175.

[Phenom]

He’s declining but is still a very technically skilled fighter and everyone knows the power is the last thing to go. He remains a tough fight for anyone at 175.

He was very cautious in his last fight I think his punch resistance is gone

[champion4ever]

He's been knocked out twice and Canelo Alvarez is calling him out so he must be.

[El_Mero]

I dont think he's shot. But definitely not in his prime.

[daggum]

canelo will ko him with a jab

[FrankieClutch]

He wasn't shot until Canelo mentioned his name.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

He was very cautious in his last fight I think his punch resistance is gone

That video isn’t available in the UK but I rewatched the rematch recently anyway.

I think it’s more stamina than punch resistance, in round 6 he ate a clean right hand from Alvarez and took it well, he definitely fades after 6 though and that’s when he looks vulnerable. I think the cautiousness came more from what Alvarez did to him in the first fight. Kovalev’s aura of invincibility has been taken away you can see he no longer has that confidence he had when he was dominating Cleverly, B-Hop, Pascal etc.

[champion4ever]

He's definitely been exposed twice by TKO; So the answer to your question is yes otherwise, Canelo wouldn't have been calling him out.