The 32-year-old Russian dominated each round, masterfully cutting off the hoop and touchdown left jabs at will sooner than Pascal’s teacher Freddie Roach put a forestall to the slaughter before the beginning of circular8 – giving Kovalev a seventh-round technical knockout.
This used to be the Canadian’s first fight with six-time trainer of the year Roach, yet the resultbecomealmostthe similar equally his light heavyweight fight opposed to Kovalev 10 months previous, which ended with an eight-round TKO for the Russian.
Kovalev retained his World Boxing Association, Foreign Boxing Federation and World Boxing Organization titles as he advanced to 29-0-1 with 26 knockouts.
