On August 17, 2013, Nathan Cleverly (26-0, 12 KOs), the light-heavyweight WBO champion, defends his title against Russian challenger, Sergey Kovalev (21-0-1, 19 KOs).
Nathan Cleverly is coming in to the fight on a 26-fight win streak with a 46% KO rate; his last fight was a unanimous decision win over Robin Krasniqi, 3 months and 28 days ago. Sergey Kovalev is on a 5-fight win streak with a 86% KO rate, with his last fight being a 3rd round TKO win over Cornelius White, 2 months and 3 days ago.
The odds of winning are at 97.4-2.6 in favor of Sergey Kovalev. Nathan Cleverly won't be able to do much against Kovalev.
Sergey Kovalev stopped the champion via TKO in the 4th round of the 12-round world-title fight, winning the first world title of his career, and is crowned the new WBO light-heavyweight champion. Kovalev improves his record to 22-0-1 (20 KOs), while Cleverly adds a loss to his record at 26-1.