Just saw the fight, and wow, that was something truly remarkable. Tremendous win in a titlefight for Serget Kovalev, and Nathan Cleverly also deserves a great deal of respect, he fought with a lot of heart and gave a noteworthy effort. Cleverly tried to make some adjustments and dictate the fight, but ultimately, couldnt handle the sustained punishment.
Sergey Kovalev is probably the most dangerous puncher in boxing. He has sadly literally killed a man in the ring (RIP to brave Roman Simakov), and his power is a brutal, accumulative type of punching power. It's not one punch he knocks you out with, its several in the whole round that hurt you and force you on a knee. This type of brutal, prolonged, and accumulative power is the worst and can seriously injure people. I'm glad the fight was stopped when it was. No need for Cleverly to take any more punches or risk sustaining an injury.
This fight is one of the more one sided beatings Ive seen in a titlefight in literally years. This fight was a thrashing. Kovalev's KO's over Negroes Campillo, White, Thompson, and now Cleverly are some of the worst destructions Ive ever seen in over 15 years of watching boxing.
Cleverly is a very talented, speedy, rangey boxer and its very impressive that Kovalev was able to knock him out so easily. Kovalev now has 2 KO wins over top light heavyweights Gabriel Campillo and Nathan Cleverly. These are extremely impressive results as both Cleverly and Campillo are great fighters and top10 when Kovalev KO'd them so easily.
As a final point, Roy Jones JR.'s commentary for HBO was disgusting. He always tries to discredit white fighters. Even when he says something good about a white fighter, he then says BUT here's something bad. Roy was being disrespectful to Sergey and claimed that Sergey 'can't go 8 rounds'. What a retarded and utterly absurd statement. How would Roy know that until he's seen Sergey in that situation?
Roy must be forgetting his KO losses to Lebedev and Green and decision loss to Calzaghe. Maybe he's still bitter about the losses and taking it out in his commentary. Roy's commentary is consistently anti-white and his comments tonight were absurd and out of place.