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Nathan Cleverly: World title bout against Sergey Kovalev will be explosive

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Nathan Cleverly has dubbed Saturday's world title defence against Sergey Kovalev as the most important fight of his career.

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Cleverly's father and trainer Vince has no doubt his son will emerge victorious at the Motorpoint Arena, and praised Nathan's attitude. "Whatever the Russian tank brings for Nathan, I think Nathan has the artillery to blow up that tank," he said. "It won't be easy but I only see one winner. Nathan has trained like the challenger, not the champion and he definitely wants to win this fight to bring on Bernard Hopkins." Kovalev chose to keep his counsel simply saying: "Who knows what will happen, but we will find out on Saturday night."