Sergey Kovalev is no stranger to adversity. His path to light heavyweight honors was a lot more rugged than most. Unlike a lot of the prominent former Soviet Union fighters around at the moment, he lacked the springboard of an illustrious amateur career to propel him to professional stardom.
Super Saturday is almost here. Three world title fights, including one of the most anticipated rematches in recent memory, will take place Saturday at Ford Center at the Star, the practice home of the Dallas Cowboys.
Former two-time light heavyweight champion Kovalev set for Top Rank on ESPN debut.
Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev and Eleider “Storm” Alvarez lit up the Atlantic City Boardwalk in a pitched battle last month.
As fans know, unbeaten Colombian talent Eleider Alvarez shook up the light-heavyweight division in a big way earlier this month, stopping as he did defending WBO champ and pound-for-pound entrant Sergey Kovalev in seven exciting and very interesting rounds.
Though the summer weeks are generally a pretty quiet time for the sport of boxing, we have in the last eight days seen a Fight of The Year contender with the Dereck Chisora-Carlos Takam slugfest and, last night courtesy of Eleider Alvarez’ stunning performance, The Upset of The Year with his shock KO win over Sergey Kovalev.
In a stunning turnaround, Eleider Alvarez (24-0, 12 KOs) of Montreal, Canada scored a seventh round knockout victory over Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev (32-3-1, 28 KOs) of Russia before a sellout crowd of 5,642 fans at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino’s Etess Arena.
Eleider ‘Storm’ Alvarez (24-0, 12 KOs) dethroned WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey ‘Krusher’ Kovalev (32-3, 28 KOs) in halting the 35-year-old Russian knockout artist in the 7th round on Saturday night at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Saturday’s World Champion Boxing® telecast begins at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. Opening the telecast at The Hard Rock in Atlantic City, NJ is light heavyweight titlist Dmitry Bivol taking on Isaac Chilemba in a 12-round bout.
This Saturday night live on HBO, Sergey Kovalev and Eleider Alvarez lock horns in the main event. On paper the co-feature Dimtry Bivol versus Isaac Chilemba is a good measuring stick bout to see just how far along Bivol has come.
WBO and IBA Light Heavyweight World Champion Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev of Russia makes a dual title defense against undefeated light heavyweight contender Eleider “Storm” Alvarez of Colombia at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City on Saturday, August 4.