Sergey Kovalev vs. Isaac Chilemba

[Freedom]

Sergey Kovalev vs. Isaac Chilemba in Russia July 11

[Tam Seddon]

Sergey Kovalev to fight Isaac Chilemba in Russia | World Boxing News

[p4pking]

Why? If you can't beat Tony Bellew in two fights, you don't belong in a ring with Kovalev..

[Master]

It is obviously what happens when you have the right connections.

[Freedom]

Why? If you can't beat Tony Bellew in two fights, you don't belong in a ring with Kovalev..

Chilemba beat Bellew in the first fight but was robbed.

I thought he deserved a win over Alvarez too.

[p4pking]

Why? If you can't beat Tony Bellew in two fights, you don't belong in a ring with Kovalev..

Chilemba beat Bellew in the first fight but was robbed.

I thought he deserved a win over Alvarez too.

I've heard that yes, but the fact they were tight fights suggests there is a big gulf between him and Kovalev. Still, not like there are any other hot tickets at 175 willing to fight Kovalev next, so this is probably as good as it was going to get.

[Spicoli]

Thought the Alvarez fight could have gone either way and turned into a dull affair. Figure this is part two of hbo set up for Kovalev before he..hopefully..fights Ward?

[powerpuncher]

Should be easy work for kovalev. Ward is the only one who has any chance of beating him at LHW. Stevenson needs to just cash out and fight him. He could also fight fonfara maybe.

[palmerq]

so this is probably as good as it was going to get.

I would think that's it, they want the fight to be in russia too so he has to find someone willing to go over there too.. It could be a lot worse I think, it's a better match up than golovkin v wade(which was a mandatory to be fair)

[erics44]

Why? If you can't beat Tony Bellew in two fights, you don't belong in a ring with Kovalev..

Chilemba beat Bellew in the first fight but was robbed.

I thought he deserved a win over Alvarez too.

Chilemba didn't beat bellew cummonnnnnnnnnnn

hes got the Kov fight coz Kov cant find anyone else to fight

[ono]

Why oh why? What for? This is getting silly now.

[Silkeyjoe]

Its another really poor division. Outside Ward(hopefully will fight soon), Stevenson (team want nothing to do with Kov) and Beterbiev (prob a bit soon for Kov) the division is very weak, Chilemba probably as good as anyone else but dont give him a chance here. Gvozdyk looks good but again too soon for Kov.

[Master]

What is Stevenson doing? Fight B Hop at least that would be intriguing.

[erics44]

thing is with Chilemba he is very awkward

theres a mild chance he could frustrate Kovalev and get to him a bit

[SlimTrae]

What is Stevenson doing? Fight B Hop at least that would be intriguing.

All the more shameful he got in the ring with Krusher-Pascal post fight.