It is a dream lineup; and though dreams don’t always come true, if the schedule manager Egis Klimas envisions for Sergey Kovalev the remainder of this calendar year pans out and Kovalev continues to win in dominating fashion, the balloting for the 2016 “Fighter of the Year” will be much more of a foregone conclusion than the U.S. presidential election figures to be.
A few days prior to Kovalev’s epic -- and intentionally prolonged -- beatdown of former WBC light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal in their rematch on Saturday, Klimas said he wanted his Russian destroyer, who holds the IBF, WBA and WBO titles, to follow up with a full-unification matchup with WBC/lineal champ Adonis Stevenson.