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Kovalev now targets the rematch.

Kovalev is a great 6 round fighter. I don't think that he's ever trailed in a fight at the midway mark. He's got a very small fuel tank and as he gets older, the tank gets smaller and smaller.

If you noticed against Alvarez, he had nice head movement and was easily avoiding the overhand right and then early in the 7th, his head movement stopped and had his tower buzzed by a right hand and gave a nod of acknowledgement to Alvarez that he should have had him. Then we all saw what punch started it all.

When you have an aging fighter with small fuel tank who doesn't believe in pacing himself, it's just a matter of getting him to the later rounds and use the first 6 rounds to soften him up to the belly. It's going to be the same result no matter what.

"Duva: Kovalev Will Fight On, No Desire To End Career Like That!"

On Monday, I checked in with Duva, and asked how the 35 year old Russian hitter is feeling.

“Sergey is good,” Duva told me. “We got him a CAT scan Saturday night just to be safe. He already told me he has no desire to end his career like that, so he will rest for a while and then we will make a plan to go forward.”

Duva offered up her take on something that perhaps could be tweaked, to get him back on the win track.

“He fought brilliantly,” the New Jersey fixture said. “But his conditioning failed him again. Personally, I think he needs to bring in someone with experience training older athletes. I know that Tom Brady, for example, does not eat or train or play the same way that he did in his 20s. And neither should Sergey.”