Biggest Jump up in competition (Yarde V Kovalev) etc

[mlac]

Yarde has not even proved himself at domestic level, ducking frank buglioni and Hosea Burton.

Best win is faded euro level guys like Sjekloca who was 40 years old.

His last win was 38 year old Travis Reeves, ranked 66 on boxrec

Travis Reeves > Sergey Kovalev

Any others?

off the top off my head a green Joseph Parker had not fought a top 50 heavyweight in the world before he was thrown in with Carlos Takam a top 15/20 HW.

He had just fought Jason Bergman (top 100+ HW) > Carlos Takam (top 15/20 HW)

[hmc87]

Gary Russell Jr. Lomachenko

GGG Danny Jacobs

JCC Jr. Sexy Sergio

Hatton Mayweather

[mick1303]

When Pavlik fought Edison Miranda, the general feeling was that it is gigantic step up for him and most likely he will be KOd.

[REDEEMER]

AJ fighting Klitschko in just 19 fights tops for me. Yarde is unproven but will be way to athletic against a guy seemingly who doesn't react well to body shots and that's Yardes best punches.

[MDPopescu]

Biggest Jump up in competition (Yarde V Kovalev)

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I've seen even worse: some "mandos", some fights for some "vacant titles"...

[tophat1]

jason welborn vs jerrett hurd was a big one

welborn was mixing at middleweight british title level hurd unified champ at 154 and the guy most regarded as number 1 at the time

[tophat1]

you also have some Asian fighters going against fighters making their debuts inbetween their bigger fights. ...not to mention the circus that was floyd vs Mcgreggor

[mlac]

jason welborn vs jerrett hurd was a big one

welborn was mixing at middleweight british title level hurd unified champ at 154 and the guy most regarded as number 1 at the time

Wellborn had already fought alot of decent guys already... im not sure the jump from Matt Macklin, a fringe world level guy to Hurd is that big tbf...

there is another Russian making a big jump up in competition on the Kovalev/Yarde undercard:

Aleksei Papin (best win Sillah, who was a career LHW) is fighting top 10/15 CW Junior Makabu

[tophat1]

Wellborn had already fought alot of decent guys already... im not sure the jump from Matt Macklin, a fringe world level guy to Hurd is that big tbf...

there is another Russian making a big jump up in competition on the Kovalev/Yarde undercard:

Aleksei Papin (best win Sillah, who was a career LHW) is fighting top 10/15 CW Junior Makabu

wasnt quite the same Macklin that lost to ggg tho,he was on the slide.

could backfire big time on the Russian. makabu is dangerous

[KillaMane26]

Gary Russell Jr. Lomachenko

GGG Danny Jacobs

JCC Jr. Sexy Sergio

Hatton Mayweather

Nah.....lol