Quote Originally Posted by p4pking View Post
I would be surprised if Cleverly ever beats a world class fighter, his style is completely unfitting of someone who can't take it.
He fights stupid. He's become habitual. I like the kid but as we have talked about before his greatest weakness is this almost subconscious need to please and excite the crowd rather then winning the dam fight. Cleverly fought the dumbest fight I have ever seen him fight against his most dangerous opponent. I actually believed foolishly that this fight would be when he put on a show. He never even tried to use the ring. He instead once again because of his bravado, arrogance and cockiness attempted to hook with a hooker and prove he could take his shots. He's been fighting that way since the first time I watched him on guru and it even seemed to increase post Murat. Not trying to take anything away from Kovalev as he is a much better technician then I thought he was especially his sneaky footwork.