I thought Harold Lederman's card was way off in this fight. IIRC he had Kovalev up 5-1.
To me, this was a pretty easy fight to judge. I had it 3-3, 1st 3 rounds to Alvarez, next 3 to Kovalev. I mean he was giving Kovalev rounds when he was clearly getting outjabbed, head being snapped back.
Definately Kovalev had the momentum, although he was tiring.
I just feel like a lot of people are saying Kovalev was "in command", and I didn't see that at all. Yes, Kovalev had a big 4th, but Alvarez was able to take the shots, never panicked, and answered back with shots of his own.
boxing scenes scores fights the same way as I do usually. as roy said. coming forward doesnt matter when you run into jabs all night.
Roy and Max had it right... 4-2 Alvarez here ... So happy they didn't have to go to the crooked Duva judges...
I thought Alvarez won the first 2 rounds. I gave Kov the third and he was beating the crap out of Alvaraz in the 4rth but he seemed to gas out by the end of that round. Alvarez slowly pulled himself back into the fight. Kovalev won most of the rounds after round 4 but he was looking really tired.
Lederman is senile.
I thought Harold Lederman's card was way off in this fight. IIRC he had Kovalev up 5-1.
To me, this was a pretty easy fight to judge. I had it 3-3, 1st 3 rounds to Alvarez, next 3 to Kovalev.
I scored it just like you scored it. Lederman is notoriously bad at scoring.
as I said in another thread, 4-2 or 3-3 are the only scores possible. I don't think I've ever in my life agreed with a Harol Ledderman card. This is the same guy that scored the Maurice Harris vs Larry Holmes fight for Holmes in a fight that it was hard to even give Holmes a clear round. He has his agenda. Had Kovalev made it out of the 7th round after, I wouldn't have been shocked had he only scored it only 10-8 for Alvarez. He doesn't even try to hide his biasness and Max seems like he's afraid to go against him. He'll say, "well I have the fight ____" but won't publicly challenge Ledderman's bs. Let's not forget that Ledderman gave Kovalev the 9th round in the first fight against Ward too. I still don't know how he managed to do that as well.
Agreed 100%. I remember watching that fight on the old USA Tuesday Night Fights, and Harris put on a clinic and easily outboxed and outfought Larry Holmes. Horrible robbery. I had forgotten that Lederman was one of the judges.
I was mostly agreeing with Harold. I thought Kovalev was a lot busier and landing some nice shots with the higher volume. Alvarez would pick his shots and eventually land and it was nice, but Kovalev was busier and landing more I thought. I honestly did not see Alvarez ahead up until the stoppage.
as I said in another thread, 4-2 or 3-3 are the only scores possible. I don't think I've ever in my life agreed with a Harol Ledderman card. This is the same guy that scored the Maurice Harris vs Larry Holmes fight for Holmes in a fight that it was hard to even give Holmes a clear round. He has his agenda. Had Kovalev made it out of the 7th round after, I wouldn't have been shocked had he only scored it only 10-8 for Alvarez. He doesn't even try to hide his biasness and Max seems like he's afraid to go against him. He'll say, "well I have the fight ____" but won't publicly challenge Ledderman's bs. Let's not forget that Ledderman gave Kovalev the 9th round in the first fight against Ward too. I still don't know how he managed to do that as well.
I had it exactly the same as Harold, and I was at the fight. I gave Eleider the second round. I got home at 2:00 Am watched the fight on DVR and scored it the same way. I think The power punches by Kovalev in person was very impressive, and it was clear the Alvarez was in deep trouble in 5-6 , but you could Kovalev getting winded and he was very upright.
I picked draw in the fight but I also stated in a previous post I thought Alvarez would win the fight and get robbed by the judges. Best fight at the Etess arena in Atlantic City since “ Cool Vince Phillips upset Hall of Famer Kostya Tszyu. Clemenza was at that fight as well. And that’s that