He can hurt anybody if he lands. But the gap in defense is pretty huge. Smith is hard to MISS. I could see Kov giving him the Cleverly treatment.
This fight makes me even more upset I lost money betting the under in Kovalev hopkins. Hbo can play up the layoff for hopkins all they want but the bottom line here is that if Kovalev pressed the issue like smith did then he would've easily gotten a stoppage