Gennady Kovalev
Gennady Gennadiyevich Kovalev is a boxer from Russia.
Career
He started boxing in 1995 in Miass, and his first coach was Anatoly Panguev.Southpaw Kovalev won the silver medal at the 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships, defeating Uzbekistan's Bahodirjon Sooltonov but losing to Azerbaijan's Aghasi Mammadov at bantam, and a gold medal at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships.
He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native country. There he was beaten in the quarterfinals of the Bantamweight (54 kg) division by Cuba's eventual winner Guillermo Rigondeaux.
Now at junior welterweight he won the Russian Championships 2007 against legend Alexander Maletin 37:21.
At the World championships he beat Bradley Saunders to reach the finals but lost to defending Kazakh champion Serik Sapiyev 5:20.
After his boxing career, Kovalev has found success as a professional MMA fighter, going 5–1 as a professional.
World amateur championships results
2003- Defeated Berik Serikbayev 21–6
- Defeated Zsolt Bedák 43–20
- Defeated Khavazi Khatsygov 25–14
- Defeated Bahodirjon Sooltonov 21–15
- Lost to Aghasi Mammadov 8–17
- Defeated Andrey Tsiruk 33–11
- Defeated Marufjon Fayzuloyev 24–10
- Defeated Gyula Kate 22–9
- Defeated Boris Georgiev walkover
- Defeated Bradley Saunders 16–8
- Lost to Serik Sapiyev 5–20
Olympic results
2004- 1st round bye
- Defeated Malik Bouziane 23–20
- Lost to Guillermo Rigondeaux 5–20
- Defeated Maimaitituersun Qiong 15–8
- Defeated Richarno Colin 11:2
- lost to Roniel Iglesias 2:5