Mandalay Bay, LAS VEGAS, NV - Former pound-for-pound king and two-division champion Andre Ward (32-0) was in Las Vegas Saturday night to provide expert analysis for the HBO tripleheader headlined by Mickey Roman's knockout victory over Orlando Salido...
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Sergey Kovalev’s return from his second defeat to Andre Ward was a success in and out of the ring. According to ratings released Wednesday by Nielsen Media Research, a peak audience of 900,000 viewers tuned in to HBO to watch Kovalev knock out Vyache...
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Sergey Kovalev Video Interview - Sergey "Krusher" Kovalev regained his WBO Light Heavyweight World Title in classic Krusher fashion with a second round stoppage of Vyacheslav Shabranskyy at the Theater at Madison Square Garden and live on HBO World C...
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Kovalev vs. Shabranskyy Fight Photos Gallery - Sergey "Krusher" Kovalev regained his WBO Light Heavyweight World Title in classic Krusher fashion with a second round stoppage of Vyacheslav Shabranskyy at the Theater at Madison Square Garden and live...
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Sergey Kovalev isn’t back. He never went anywhere. About half the people reading this probably were in the camp that thought he won the first fight with Andre Ward. The stoppage finish of the rematch can obscure how close the fight was through the ro...
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Sergey "Krusher" Kovalev regained his WBO light heavyweight world title in classic Krusher fashion with a second round stoppage of Vyacheslav Shabranskyy at the Theater at Madison Square Garden and live on HBO World Championship Boxing. Kovalev came...
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Kovalev lost his last two outings to Andre Ward, and he brought a dynamic fury into the Madison Square Garden ring. He dropped Shabranskyy twice in the first round, once more in the second, and somehow Shabranskyy didn't go down from another series o...
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By Keith Idec - NEW YORK – Sergey Kovalev showed Saturday night that he remains an elite light heavyweight. The former light heavyweight champion emphatically came back from his technical-knockout defeat to Andre Ward by dropping Vyacheslav Shabransk...
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Kovalev vs. Shabranskyy WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol has hit New York City as HBO Sports celebrates the holiday weekend with an action-packed tripleheader, including the return of light heavyweight powerhouse Sergey Kovalev, when WORLD...
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NEW YORK – LeShawn Rodriquez continued the impressive start to his pro career Saturday night on the Sergey Kovalev-Vyacheslav Shabranskyy undercard. The 24-year-old Rodriguez, a middleweight prospect from Shirley, New York, knocked out Brazil’s Alex...
NEW YORK – Maybe it’s because Vyacheslav Shabranskyy knows Andre Ward was the best boxer in the world at that time. Perhaps it’s because he has lost a bout by knockout, too, and thus realizes it can happen to any fighter if he isn’t properly prepared...
Dmitry Bivol is very familiar with Vyacheslav Shabranskyy. They sparred numerous rounds against each other recently in preparation for Bivol’s victory over Trent Broadhurst on November 4 in Monte Carlo and Shabranskyy’s fight against Sergey Kovalev o...
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One year ago at this time, Sergey Kovalev was a week from his first loss, convinced he was really still undefeated. Saturday night (HBO, 10 PM EST), Kovalev enters knowing he was defeated for the first time. This is life after Andre Ward, the debated...
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NEW YORK – Bernard Hopkins was right. Kathy Duva joked during a press conference Wednesday at Madison Square Garden that she couldn’t believe she was admitting that publicly. But Sergey Kovalev’s promoter is sure Hopkins had it right in the immediate...
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Sergey Kovalev and his opponent Saturday night, Vyacheslav Shabranskyy, are both punchers. So not many people expect the 12-round WBO light heavyweight title fight to go the distance at Madison Square Garden. Those observers can't be sure, though, wh...
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