Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • Career [ ] Club [ ] Kalachev signed a five-year contract with Ukrainian side from Belarusian in January 2004. He then signed a three-year contract with in January 2008. In 2010, Kalachev signed with another club –. International [ ] Kalachev the Belarus national team between March 2014 and March 2015.

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Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Amateur career [ ] Kovalev started boxing in 1994 at age 11, and made his amateur debut in 1997 in the Russian Boxing Junior Championship, where he won the gold medal in the middleweight juniors division. One year later he competed with the seniors and reached the final, and a year after that, he won the final fight.

Ultraman fighting evolution 3 emulator. For Team Russia, he competed in the European Championships. In 2004, Kovalev for the first time took part in the Russian Senior Championship, and in his first season, he reached the final and also won the golden medal in the team event. The next year was the most successful in his career as an amateur in winning two titles: the first as champion of Russia and the second as champion among servicemen. In the 2006 championship for servicemen, he won the silver, and a year later, he took bronze in the Russian Championship and gold in the World Military Games in India.

In 2008, Kovalev took part in his final national competition and again made the final; after that, he decided to turn professional. As he once admitted, he had to leave the national team because of the extremely tense competition between him and more successful boxers such as. He finished his amateur career with a record of 195-18. Main article: It was announced on June 16, 2016, that a contract had been signed between Kovalev and undefeated former super middleweight world champion (30-0, 15 KOs) to take place at the in on November 19, 2016. Both fighters remained undefeated through interim bouts. This fight marked Ward's first time fighting in Las Vegas.

Kovalev lost a closely contested controversial decision with the judges all scoring the fight 114-113 in favor of Ward. Stated after the fight, 'It was a classic hometown decision, Kovalev won the fight!' Gareth Davies, boxing correspondent gave the fight to Kovalev with 115-112, as did. Kovalev's promoter,, said, 'We got a great fight, which is what boxing needed. But we also got a bad decision, which is not what boxing needed.'

Still, many boxing experts have applauded the decision. Noted the high degree of difficulty both fighters faced that night and doubted the prospect of a one-sided affair in the case of a rematch. Still, he concluded that Kovalev faded late in the fight. Promoter added that Kovalev lacked a sense of urgency after the halfway point. 's trainer,, noticed how Kovalev allowed Ward on the inside and as a result wore down.