Essential The Official Boxing Random Thoughts Thread...All boxing heads ENTER.
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@mr. smoke weed smoke valdez and officer mikey are fighting next weekend..you want to do their fight threads breh so i can sticky them tomorrow
reservoirdogs
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Kovalev: There Should Be '1' Champ at 175 - I'm Just a Belt-holder
By Steve Kim
On Saturday night from the Theater at Madison Square Garden, Sergey Kovalev makes his 2018 debut as he faces Igor Mikhalkin in defense of his WBO light heavyweight title.
The "Krusher'' won that belt on November 25th as he knocked out Vyacheslav Shabranskyy in two rounds.
Kovalev was coming off a pair of losses to Andre Ward and it was his first stoppage since he halted Jean Pascal in their rematch in January of 2016 (a span of three fights).
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Kovalev (31-2-1, 27 KO's) is a substantial favorite to defeat his Russian comrade.
''New year, new goals, right now the first goal is to get victory from my next fight, March 3rd," Kovalev said last weekend in Los Angeles where Main Events staged a media luncheon for him.
The 34-year old Kovalev is now entering a new chapter in his career. Is the best still yet to come?
"You can see this and decide this for yourself if it is or not because I can not say this about myself, if I'm the best or not," said a relaxed Kovalev.
"I'm trying to be better than I was yesterday. Let's see March 3rd and in the future and in this year. Right now I have three fights and I should prove to myself and to the boxing fans I deserve to be a world champion."
But while he was a major belt around his waist, he understands that he's just one of several talented boxers in the division that also have titles, such as WBC belt-holder Adonis Stevenson (who faces Badou Jack in May) and WBA titlist, Dmitry Bivol, who faces Sullivan Barrera as the opening bout on this HBO broadcast that features Kovalev.
"In my opinion,'' he stated, "there should be just one champion in each division. Right now, I'm just a belt-holder."
The Komplainer has a point here
politically now the WBA, WBO, and IBF can be unified at least like how kovalev did before..until someone can knock off Superman though its going to be all for nothing
reservoirdogs
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rooting for Badou Jack there
rooting for him anyway and because of this too
Jack said Kovalev is his "dream fight" in an interview
Jack is a good body puncher too
rip that liver!
Creflo ½ Dollar
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If black people competed in them sports as much as much we would dominate too
. So i dnt see how the statement might be dumb
... But u get the point tho
reservoirdogs
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I don't really believe that these things would largely depend on race breh, I think it's more of a cultural thing than anything else, different sport are popular among different nations, regions, ethnic groups, etc...If black people competed in them sports as much as much we would dominate too
So i dnt see how the statement might be dumb
Assuming that you are thinking about average builds of people from different races, yes, there are some differences between the average built of people from different regions (not necessarily as simple as whites, Asians, blacks, etc...) which makes their chances to be usually good at sport X or sport Y better or worse but culture is more of a factor imo and no typical body type is advantageous for all sports. What might be advantageous for one sport it might be disadvantageous for the other because they require completely different builds and type of muscles.
and yeah I got his point, of course Sanchez is a racist dumbass for that statement especially that we can't even talk about a stereotypical "black style" in 2018 if you look at the top AA fighters... Most of them are action fighters now so he can't even say that there are a few exceptions but otherwise he is right
Amor fati
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King Sor!!!! 
Amor fati
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The Yorkshireman Gavin beat Yafai.
kell had a successful comeback..knocked rabchenko out in round 2..good deal
Decent showing. Didnt really learn anything though