Kovalev seems to be open for the counter down the middle if he's too hellbent on seeking and destroying. (The shame of it is no single punch has ever given him too much to think about... yet. Pascal landed hard fight hand counters and Caparello scored an off balance knock down) but nothing neither kept kovalev from resuming the hunt.

He's at his best when he's already leery of the the attack. He approaches carefully and steps back and throws the right hand over the jab and has a knack for temple shots too. For all those fighters looking to land those counters right down the middle and licking their chops, I wouldn't put all my eggs in one basket on hopes that those opportunities will always be there. I think Jackson would work on closing that up or minimizing the window with the jabs to the body. Especially because he should know how glaringly obvious that looked to everyone including the stevenson camp and how well it would line up with Supermans bread and butter straight left if Kovalev lines himself up for it trying to drop Stevenson like Fonfara did. Stevenson's straight left would more than likely be inside the Charging Kovalevs straight right and get there first.