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Top Rank on ESPN: Eleider Alvarez vs. Sergey Kovalev II preview and full fight week coverage

On Saturday, February 2nd from Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas, Top Rank Boxing has a stacked quadrupleheader that features three world championship fights. In the main event, WBO light heavyweight champion Eleider Alvarez (24-0, 12 KOs) defends his title against Sergey Kovalev (32-3-1, 28 KOs), the man he knocked out in a big upset back in August 2017.

If you don’t know how the first fight went down, here are the highlights.

Kovalev was up on the scorecards prior to the seventh-round TKO, but he used his rematch clause, and now he gets a chance to even the score.