Saturday night on HBO, former Light Heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev looks to rebound from his back to back losses to Andre Ward when he takes on Vyacheslav Shabranskyy. Here are the current odds, courtesy of Bovada:
Sergey Kovalev -1600
Vyacheslav Shabranskyy +800With a record of 30-2-1 with 26 KOs, it’s no surprise that Kovalev is the favorite. He’s a former world champion, one of the hardest punchers in the sport today, and still sits in the Ring Magazine pound for pound rankings at #5. His return to HBO is designed to showcase him and get him back to his winning ways, while also putting one of the vacant world titles around his waist (the WBO belt he lost to Andre Ward is up for grabs here).