(Photo Credit: Amanda Kwok / PBC on CBS) By Dan Ambrose: While many boxing fans are looking forward to an intriguing unification match between WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson (25-1, 21 KOs) and IBF/WBA/WBO light heavyweight champ Sergey Kovalev (27-0-1, 24 KOs), Stevenson, 37, isn’t looking past his opponent tonight former WBC 168 pound champion Sakio Bikla (32-6-3, 21 KOs) in their fight at the Pepsi Coliseum, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
Stevenson can’t afford to look past Bika, because this is probably the best fighter that Stevenson has ever fought before. Stevenson has fought better boxers than Bika in the past like Chad Dawson and bigger punchers like Tony Bellew, but none of the opponents that Stevenson has faced had the punch resistance and the toughness that Bika possesses.