Yes, Ward landed a lot of low blows, but he also landed some decent body shots, however not nearly enough from his feather fists to put a fighter whose in shape into trouble. Kovalev was gassed by round 5! Whoever he hired to be his new conditioning coach did a terrible job. He had two options going into this fight, option 1 be in great shape to go 12, or option 2 limit your punches per round so you don't gas your out of shape a$$ out. He didn't do either! Props to Ward, but Kovalev was up on my card, and would've won if he was fit, but none of that matters now.
I think it was either after round 5 or 6 kovalev was breathing heavily on his stool. I knew at that point he was in trouble.
He can mask it with his skills and power against most other fighters.
Did you see the fight? Kov had nothing after round 5. Guy was done. KO, points, he was losing no matter what happened. Good thing it happened when it did so it spared the fans of seeing a hugging match for the rest of the fight
Probably and why not let it play that way???
Why not see it than stick to theories? Like I said we cant say that to all boxing comebacks. We saw them definitely losing, then win later?
Why not give ward the type of win he worked for? Where nobody is questioning and complaining. Theres a lot of fights where even a fanboy couldnt debate about. Not a hugger of both, but I love a clean clear win, KO or not.
I think a big part of kovolev tiring was the fact that early on Ward was moving and making kovolev completely miss with air punches.. missing and hitting nothing but air instead of on a guys defense really tires fighters as they have to exert energy to absorb the impact of missing
Legal or not weeks should have not stopped fight yet. Ward deserves an unquestionable win he trained his butt for it, and kova needs to be given a chance for a comeback since he wasn't that hurt.
Khan was given three tries. Even bradley was given benefit of the doubt against provo
Those guys are more hurt imo.
Dont give me that "oh hes gonna get stop anyway" we cant say that to all the greatest comebacks in boxing
so basically you support lgbt
if you're referring to kovalov who was crying whining and in tears
what a blood and guts solider he was bro.
guy has sh*t sh*t conditioning & you LOVE it. you don't want him to make changes. only excuses and crying.
the problem is when hbo took the angle around passed the ref it was a clear cup shot you batty
clear cup shot? get f*cking real. kovalov got pummpled on the ropes with shots that was on the belt line and above. he f*cking got rocked banged up and stopped. get over it. f*cking idiot said the right didn't hurt him? NOTHING hurt him? when we saw him flailing around the ring gasping for air hurt to the head and body? also kovalov did way way too much crying in this fight. crying to the ref for any little thing. crying hard. some eastern european "warrior"
enjoy your crow and tears bro. their YUMMY.
the way he trains reminds me of back when Cotto thought he could fight with a cheerleader as lead trainer and when he ignored everything his uncle told him........no pace to it....Kovalev has great talent with how he manages distance and leading/countering with the jab, but is soft otherwise because he doesn't like getting pushed in training.....
I have no idea if he doesn't like getting pushed in training but if that's true it would be a recipe for being second best. He's a talented fighter but you have to have the desire to push yourself in training. Even the most talented boxers can't be elite for very long, if ever, without that.
anyone who defends low blows is a batty
the problem is "low blows" were borderline shots to the mid section. kovalov also was hurt and almost down by a right hand. ward eat him up. "low blows" are nothing more then excuses coming from your side in a sad pathetic attempt to not give ward any credit. even kovalov said the right hand didn't hurt him at all when we all saw him on qeer street from the right. u guys are a sad case of turd truly indeed. enjoy your crow.
Kovalev outlanded Ward in 5 of the 7 rounds, Ward landed like 2 more bodyshots after 7. Lederman had and most others had Kovalev ahead by a couple rounds. Ward landed tons of lowblows throughout the fight and the ref (obviously a brother) played along nicely.
What drained Kovalev was the lowblows, if it was the other way around Kovalev would have been deducted a point already and at the end would have been DQed.
But we are in America right.
Still in denial? Kovalev wasn't even close to being on Ward's level and never will be. A 3rd fight would be beyond lop-sided. Andre got him entirely figured out and Sergey ain't getting any younger, so that stamina issue is here to stay.
the way he trains reminds me of back when Cotto thought he could fight with a cheerleader as lead trainer and when he ignored everything his uncle told him........no pace to it....Kovalev has great talent with how he manages distance and leading/countering with the jab, but is soft otherwise because he doesn't like getting pushed in training.....
Kovalev outlanded Ward in 5 of the 7 rounds, Ward landed like 2 more bodyshots after 7. Lederman had and most others had Kovalev ahead by a couple rounds. Ward landed tons of lowblows throughout the fight and the ref (obviously a brother) played along nicely.
"most others"
Like who?
Here is the live boxingscene scorecard, 67-66 Ward http://www.boxingscene.com/scorecards
Kovalev outlanded Ward in 5 of the 7 rounds, Ward landed like 2 more bodyshots after 7. Lederman had and most others had Kovalev ahead by a couple rounds. Ward landed tons of lowblows throughout the fight and the ref (obviously a brother) played along nicely.
What drained Kovalev was the lowblows, if it was the other way around Kovalev would have been deducted a point already and at the end would have been DQed.
But we are in America right.
What??? He made an actual THUD sound on impact at the end of round 2, and landed at least 30 body shots throughout the fight. He landed a **** TON of body shots on Kovalev, and Kovalev COULD NOT handle them.