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Kovalev makes the first defence of his WBO Light Heavyweight title this Saturday against fellow Russian Mikhalkin on allegedly, Kovalev looked back to his best against Shabranskyy, destroying him in 2 rounds, obviously Shabranskyy is nowhere near the level of Ward but I doubt Mikhalkin is either, was looking through his record, he has 3 wins over Ngumbu and a wide win over Oosthuizen which is solid, his only loss was 8 years ago to Kuziemski via decision

Cant see him being on the level of Kovalev though, hopefully he has skills to give Krusher something to think about to make things interesting, Kovalev should win this though, might have to go the distance

This should real,y be a straight forward day at the office for Krusher. I'm buzzing for Bivol v Barrera