Alexander Povetkin vs. Carlos Takam

This is a very good heavyweight matchup of two bona fide top ten HWs coming up on Oct 24.

What's your prediction?

Here is the fight card:

BoxRec Boxing Records

Alexander Povetkin - Carlos Takam

(WBC Silver HW title - referee: Kenny Bayless judges: Mauro Di Fiore, Omar Mintun, Predrag Aleksic)

Rakhim Chakhkiev - Giacobbe Fragomeni

(European (EBU) cruiserweight title)

Arif Magomedov - Michael Zerafa

(12 round world youth title fight, undefeated young middleweights. Magomedov could be a star of the future)

Umar Salamov - Patrick Bois

(Age 20 Salamov is one of the best prospects in boxing)

Murad Khalidov vs. Vladimir Goncharov

(heavyweight Goncharov is now promoted by Andrey Rabinsky, and is still young enough to have some potential)

Eduard Troyanovsky - Jose Alfaro

Manuel Charr - Michael Grant

Sergey Ekimov - Miguel Velozo

Evgeny Smirnov - Michael Nyawade

If Povetkin blasts Takam, he deserves another title shot against either the winner of Stiverne/Wilder or Wlad/Pulev.

For some reason, I feel Pulev is going to outbox Wlad. Young, mobile, graceful and doesn't look to clench.

Weigh-in photos, they both look very strong:

Поветкин и Такам прошли процедуру взвешивания - SPORTS.uz

Povetkin UD
Chakhiev KO 6
Mago UD

My predictions for the 3 main fights. Decent card. Is it televised?

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Originally Posted by Freedom

Weigh-in photos, they both look very strong:

Поветкин и Такам прошли процедуру взвешивания - SPORTS.uz

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Alex looks bigger and stronger plus he is a better fighter....

I think povetkin will ko takam, takam is tough, strong and competent but povetkin is a level above him in my opinion, povetkin seems fairly easy to hit but his offense will have too much variety for takam and I think it will end like the povetkin charr fight(a fight where I predicted povetkin wouldnt stop charr :S)... Good fight for povetkin though, he took on charr after his loss to wladimir now takam, maybe he should go after chagaev again, he already beat chagaev pretty well but now chagaev has the wba belt again a win there would give povetkin some power in the division and must be a fairly big fight in the ussr...

Michael grant is on the under card too ! v charr, that'll be pretty entertaining I think!

msk-tv.com/page/russia2-tv-online.html
It starts at 19:20 Moscow time.

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Originally Posted by Silkeyjoe

Povetkin UD
Chakhiev KO 6
Mago UD

My predictions for the 3 main fights. Decent card. Is it televised?

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It's on Russia Sport 2.

PM me if you want to watch it.

Nice fight...should be fun for the viewers. Takam is underrated and if Povetkin doesn't bring his A Game he'll get beaten.

Chakhkiev KO 4 Fragomeni

Results so far:

Chakhkiev KO 4 Fragomeni
Troyanovsky KO 5 Alfaro
Magomedov UD 12 Zerafa
Charr RTD 6 Grant
Smirnov UD 6 Nyawade
Ekimov TKO 5 Velozo

Ringwalks.....finally.

I believe (I could be wrong) open scoring revealed 2 judges had Takam up and the other had Povetkin up.

Down goes Takam!

I believe the judges have Povetkin up after 8. Crowd roared when the open scores were announced.

Takam out cold in the 10th :o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNYfCq1YYLs

Good shot from Povi ....that's a quality win for him right there as Takam is no slouch. Hopefully, HOPEFULLY we see Povetkin-Jennings as I think that would be a brilliant stylistic matchup.

read the rbr elsewhere and sounds like it was a hell of a fight. I was hoping it wouldnt start till 4 pm or so, that way I could dip out of work early and catch it, but started at like 2 or something here, will have to find a copy online. I'd still like to see povetkin get another go at wladdy with a ref that doesn't allow all the hugging. Wlad still beats him but I think it would make for a fun fight and povetkin is literally the only guy that kept trying and didn't just taste the power once and go into a shell.

Povetkin can't win against Wlad like that... jmo...

If anyone cares the full fight is on you tube, good fun fight with a very nice finish. I didnt score the fight but feel like povetkin was up, which on the rbr seemingly most everyone had takam up slightly...i think povetkin beats wilder/stiverne

Thanks for the info, at work and can't see a thing. Sounds like one def to check out.

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Originally Posted by armin

If anyone cares the full fight is on you tube, good fun fight with a very nice finish. I didnt score the fight but feel like povetkin was up, which on the rbr seemingly most everyone had takam up slightly...i think povetkin beats wilder/stiverne

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povetkin wilder would be interesting, wilder is taller and povetkin does seem to be able to be hit pretty easily sometimes, if wilder really is as powerful as he looks so far he could ko povetkin early i think.. Povetkin is very good though(in my opinion) and will be hard for anyone to beat.

I'd also like to see povetkin v wladimir again but with a much stricter ref, I think povetkin made wladimir very uncomfortable.

I hope povetkin keeps up with fighting these non crap contenders although I am guessing he will go for a rematach with chagaev now that ortiz is out. I'd like to see a huck povetkin rematch too, that was a fun fight

That was a fun fight, Povetkin might well be the 2nd best HW in the world still imo. It's a shame that Wlad got away with the crap he did in their fight, I'd still be interested to see what a boxing match between the two of them would have looked like.

Would be nice to see anyone moving towards a shot at Wlad fight Povetkin first though in any case. Wilder/Stiverne winner, Jennings, Fury, etc. I wonder if Povetkin would present enough of a payday for them to risk it though. Maybe if some Russian magnate bought the rights again:p

Great win for Povetkin :D competitive fight until that brilliant left hook ended things ;D

Just shows you how good Wlad is. Povetkin is the second best heavyweight.