On Saturday, June 17th, HBO Boxing pay-per-view brings you a main event rematch between WBA-WBO-IBF light heavyweight (175 lbs) champion Andre Ward (31-0, 15 KOs) and Sergey Kovalev (30-1-1, 26 KOs) at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ward rallied from a 2nd round knockdown to earn a close unanimous decision win over the previously unbeaten Russian. The immediate rematch he been booked, only this time Roc Nation Promotion that’s in charge of the promoting of an event that has been poorly promoted.
As has been standard for HBO’s major PPV fights over the past decade, Ward-Kovalev 2 is getting the 24/7 preview treatment.