Sergey Kovalev vs Eleider Alvarez II

[Freedom]

Coming up on February 2, fight will be in Texas.

Can Sergey return to top form and win?

[powerpuncher]

I can see him winning but he isn’t returning to top form. I think that Kovalev will lose because mentally he just isn’t there anymore. At best I see him fighting like he did last fight and not getting caught and winning.

[Master]

Alvarez wins with another KO but dominating the fight more.

[Alpha]

I can see him winning but he isn’t returning to top form. I think that Kovalev will lose because mentally he just isn’t there anymore. At best I see him fighting like he did last fight and not getting caught and winning.

Yea this is how I see it. I slightly favor Kov but after the half way mark it could be anyones fight.

[Batman]

Anyone got any opinions on how different a fighter Kov would be now if he got that first decision against Ward?

[Alpha]

Anyone got any opinions on how different a fighter Kov would be now if he got that first decision against Ward?

Possibly in a similar position, it seems bad habits had already crept in.

Many thought he won the first Ward fight, but the decision seemed to have broken him further.

[p4pking]

Anyone got any opinions on how different a fighter Kov would be now if he got that first decision against Ward?

Do you mean if he had then not rematched Ward? Whatever way the decision went the first time, I think the second would have gone the same way, Ward figured him out and made the adjustments. So basically no different at all. If not for the rematch, yea who knows, he could have probably beaten everyone else in the division at that time, maybe he still can. This rematch should tell us a lot as far as how well he can adapt, cope with losing, , whether he can be in better condition, if he’s past it full stop, etc.

[Master]

Anyone got any opinions on how different a fighter Kov would be now if he got that first decision against Ward?

Do you mean if he had then not rematched Ward? Whatever way the decision went the first time, I think the second would have gone the same way, Ward figured him out and made the adjustments. So basically no different at all. If not for the rematch, yea who knows, he could have probably beaten everyone else in the division at that time, maybe he still can. This rematch should tell us a lot as far as how well he can adapt, cope with losing, , whether he can be in better condition, if he’s past it full stop, etc.

Kov may have decided not to have the rematch against Ward but he still would have lost to Alvarez in a huge shock of the year.