The fight, which took place in Montreal on Saturday, ended in victory for the Russians technical decision of a judge after the seventh round – coaches Pascal asked to stop the fight. In March last year, the boxers have met in the ring, and when Kovalev beat Pascal TKO.
The Russian boxer Sergey Kovalev, born April 2, 1983 in Kopeysk in the southern Urals. Boxing started at the age of 11 years.
In 1997, Kovalev made his debut in the championship of Russia among the amateurs and won the gold medal in the middle weight category in the youth group.
In 1998, she acted in the championship Russian Championships in the senior group and reached the final, and a year later won. In addition, the youth team took part in the European Championship. In 2000-2001, twice he reached the final of the junior national championships, once made it to the final of the All-Russian competition of the strongest boxers juniors. Speeches at the youth level completed Winter Championship “Olympic Hopes”, where competing with athletes 19-22 years, reached the final twice (2002, 2003).
In 2004, he made his debut in the championship standings adult Russia. Finalist, winner of team championship. In 2005 he became the winner of the championship of Russia.
In the same year won the world championship among servicemen in 2006 and 2007 at the World Championships in the military won the silver and bronze respectively. In 2007 he won the World Military Games.
The last competition Kovalev in amateur boxing began fighting in the national championship in 2008. He reached the final, but did not get the number of winners.
In 2009, Kovalev went to the professionals. In July 2009, he made his debut in professional boxing in the United States and completed the first nine bouts won in the first or second round.
After completing a few more fights by knockout in the early rounds in 2011 Kovalev got the right box for the title according to the North American Boxing Association (NABA) against Kenyan Douglas Otieno. Within 20 seconds after the start of the second round of the Russian laid Otieno in the ring and opened by his championship belt.
The only fight in which Kovalev could not achieve victory, took place in August 2011, when the Russians ended in a draw match with American Grover Young. Kovalev struck the enemy a blow to the head from the side. After a thorough analysis of this moment the judge saw the occasional blow to the back of the head, which is a violation. American because of an injury and could not continue the fight, the result – a technical draw.
In December 2011, in Yekaterinburg hosted a fight Kovalev champion by the WBC Asian Russian citizen Roman Simakov, which ended in tragedy. After the fight Simakov fell into a coma and died in hospital without regaining consciousness. Kovalev was awarded a TKO victory and the title of champion of Asia for the WBC. Kovalev grieved the death of comrade in the ring. The next fight he dedicated memory Simakov, and the money sent to his family.
In 2012, Kovalev started to train in the hall of the famous trainer John David Jackson, the ex-world champion WBO and WBA. In June of the same year, a second fight with Kovalev Darnell Boone, who thirsted for revenge. This time, the Americans are not able to hold two rounds – Russian won by TKO.
Having signed a contract with promotional company Main Events, Kovalev met in September 2012 with the American Lionel Thompson. Having won a landslide victory over him, the Russian won the right to fight with former world champion Gabriel Campillo. The battle took place on 19 January 2013, the Spaniard lost by knockout in the third round, and Kovalev has risen to tenth place in the world.
In August 2013 Kovalev spent his first title fight, one of the most prestigious versions (WBO) . August 17 in Cardiff in Wales took a 12-round bout Russians with Briton Nathan Cleverly. In the third round, Cleverly was knocked down twice, and the fourth referee stopped the fight. Kovalev won the world title in the light heavyweight version of WBO.
In November 2013 the Russians had a mandatory defense of his WBO title against Ukrainian Ismail Sillaha. In the second round Kovalev sent an opponent to the canvas, and immediately after he got up, the Russian boxer ended the fight a powerful direct blow to the head, from which Sillakh was outside the ring.
In August 2014 Kovalev met with Blake Caparelli from Australia for the next title defense of WBO. Three times he sent Caparelli a knockdown and finished the fight strong blow to the body from a distance.
One of the most important and anticipated fights in his career Kovalev was a unification bout against 49-year-old American Bernard Hopkins, which was held November 8, 2014 . Russian boxer was able to impose its own pace and not to engage in close combat with the more experienced American, dominating every round. The last round Kovalev brought down to 38 beats Hopkins, have reached their goal, which summed up all the logical fight – a unanimous victory for the Russians. In that fight Kovalev won two new titles – IBF and WBA.
March 14, 2015 Russian boxer defeated Canadian Jean Pascal defended his world title on the version WBA (Super), WBO and IBF light heavyweight . The fight took place in Montreal and was won by Kovalev TKO in the eighth round.
July 25, 2015 Kovalev has defended his title in a fight against the French boxer Najib Mohammedi. After the fight, the Frenchman was taken to hospital with eye injury.
For 32-year-old Kovalev’s second victory over Pascal was the 29th professional boxing a draw. Nickname boxer – Krusher (Crusher).
The material is based on information RIA Novosti and open source
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