Kovalev thumps Hopkins- Twitter Recap

Though not right very often, this one, Pierpaoli got right

Sergey Kovalev

 Thumps

Bernard Hopkins

Twitter Recap

by Alex Pierpaoli

As is our tradition here, ok, it's not a tradition but can we start one? If we live-tweeted a fight, like say while sitting at home in the recliner and watching on the idiot box, or being there live and in-person, if we tweeted it live we'll post a recap here for any of you anti social-media types. So, here is a chronological recounting of our watching-from-home live-tweets, made slightly more grammatical and a little bit less hashtaggie.

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Been all over on this but believe we see the punch out-put & strength of Kovalev finally wear down & bruise-up B-Hop in dramatic clash 2nite.

Bernard Hopkins down in the first from a solid Kovalev right.

Hopkins celebrates a shove down, he's woken up the nastiness in the third, Kovalev waiting a bit too much.

Kovalev scoring enough to win but Hopkins isn't giving him many openings & countering every time Krusher misses.

Hopkins has got Kovalev hesitating and waiting too much, following him around.

Kovalev second-guessing his punches a little. When he goes to the body it seems effective.

Hopkins is reacting to punches very much like a man, not like an alien at all... err, what does that even mean?

When Kovalev lands on the deltoids or across the lats of B-Hop those count, heavy punches colliding with an old frame.

Bernard's gloves look like they fell in a box of highlighters and he wiped them off on his trunks.

All Sergey Kovalev here, round 7 coming up. B-Hop getting shut-out but not beaten-up...so far.

Hopkins shows signs of life in the 7th, landing several mean rights that flat-out pissed the Krusher off.

If there's any round Hopkins has won the seventh was it, but it was barely.

Big right hand from Kovalev crashes against the side of B-Hop's head, he reels a bit & recovers, stays upright.

Let's see a replay of that right hand, dammit!!

Nazim Richardson sounds absolutely talked out.

Kovalev is doing a Pedro Martinez-esque number on Bernard Hopkins.

Tenth round and the first of the boo birds sound like they're coming out.

Wow, Hopkins just landed two big shots and has raised a little swelling under the eyes of Kovalev.

This fight has been clean but there's been a couple sticky difficult breaks in the 11th, another round for the Russian.

9-1 in rounds plus the extra point for the knockdown in favor of Kovalev on our card. Round 11 now

Bernard needs a kayo, badly

An old man this great can fight 3 minutes so watch the fuck out!!

Kovalev swinging away & landing heavy shots but Hopkins refused to go down. wow, that was a smashing bashing 12th

As great as Bernard Hopkins is and has been and forever will be he is NOT a p4p quality guy any longer

Lopsided unanimous decision for the Krusher Kovalev #BigWictory

Why is the pretty Corona girl staring at me? is she living or dead? #LivingDeadGirl

If you close your eyes B-Hop sounds more & more like Bill Murray from Caddyshack  #AintNoBigDeal #HopkinsKovalev