Atlantic City, Boardwalk Hall - All Sergey Kovalev, who was patient and kept distance all fight. Bernard Hopkins managed to land an average. of just 5 of 16 punches per round. Kovalev landed 38 punches in round twelve, the most landed by a Hopkins opponent in 41 of his fights tracked by CompuBox. Kovalev won a lopsided twelve round unanimous decision to unify the WBO/WBA/IBF light heavyweight titles.
Comments
Dinamita_03Mon Nov 10, 2014, 6:12 PM UTC
No fighter lands "most" of his punches. 28% is nowhere near landing most. 35% aren't superior power numbers either. The highest connecting fighters land 40-60% of their total/power punches. You could say Maidana landed most of his punches on Broner, or Garcia landed most on Juanma, or Mayweather on Marquez. And not even they landed "most". Too many rounds went by where neither fighter landed anything of note and there was only 3 rounds with anything significant happening. The rest where just Hopkins backing up and Kovalev winning on activity.
Kovalev landed 38 punches in round twelve, the most landed by a Hopkins opponent in 41 of his fights tracked by CompuBox.
M_BisonMon Nov 10, 2014, 5:45 PM UTC
What were you watching, calzaghe didnt stop hopkins you dork, he won by SPLIT decision duh!
You got tricked
https://i.warosu.org/data/ck/img/0041/24/1357356023202.jpg
5310Mon Nov 10, 2014, 5:30 PM UTC
No fighter lands "most" of his punches. 28% is nowhere near landing most. 35% aren't superior power numbers either. The highest connecting fighters land 40-60% of their total/power punches. You could say Maidana landed most of his punches on Broner, or Garcia landed most on Juanma, or Mayweather on Marquez. And not even they landed "most". Too many rounds went by where neither fighter landed anything of note and there was only 3 rounds with anything significant happening. The rest where just Hopkins backing up and Kovalev winning on activity.
You idiot......
KevMon Nov 10, 2014, 5:29 PM UTC
No fighter lands "most" of his punches. 28% is nowhere near landing most. 35% aren't superior power numbers either. The highest connecting fighters land 40-60% of their total/power punches. You could say Maidana landed most of his punches on Broner, or Garcia landed most on Juanma, or Mayweather on Marquez. And not even they landed "most". Too many rounds went by where neither fighter landed anything of note and there was only 3 rounds with anything significant happening. The rest where just Hopkins backing up and Kovalev winning on activity.
5310Mon Nov 10, 2014, 5:21 PM UTC
Comapring Calzaghe "punches" to Kovalev punches is a great example of why Compubox doesn't always tell the whole story.
