Because, after the third round, Kovalev hardly hit Ward with anything that moved the needle.
Ward's jabs didn't do any more damage than Kovalev's shots
Kovalev landed 10 more punches after throwing over 135 more punches.
Why does efficiency count? Isn't it about who is hurting who? Not saying Kovalev severely damaged him but I thought he hurt more overall
Boxing is a lot like Hollywood right now. In Hollywood, there are a couple of actors who can command huge pay days based on their name value alone (Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Leonard DiCaprio) - everyone else has to be pair with the right co-stars or project. Like look at Robert Downey Jr, he's great, everyone loves him, but unless he's in an Iron Man costume, his movies aren't guaranteed successes - same thing with Johnny Depp and his pirate outfit. Matthew McConaughey is awesome, but his star vehicles don't do great unless it's with top level co-star talent and good directing.
So to take that analogy to boxing - who could command $15 to fight anyone under the sun? Canelo? Manny? Maybe Wlad if it's in Europe and gets a good distribution deal. But there are a LOT of possible fights where fighters could easily command $15m to be one half of the headline and it would be worth it. Tyson Fury can't walk back to the sport and say give me $15m, BUT if he faced AJ, or Wilder, or rematched Klitch, you bet he's worth paying out that kind of guarantee to. Neither Ward or Kovlev are worth that kind of scratch to face a #8 or #9 ranked guy, but they MIGHT be worth that to rematch. Kell Brook and Amir Khan: alone? No way. Together? Ehhh, yeah, a promoter might want to loosen the purse strings to put on that fight.
My point is, boxing is entertainment - and all entertainment; sports, music, movies, TV...the number of stand alone stars who can carry something on their name value alone is shrinking. Collaboration, combining, and loading events with so much star power people feel like they HAVE to watch is the new formula for success in getting those coveted entertainment dollars.
Triple G sees a Canelo as his iron man suit. Robert Downey jr's money for those films isn't a straight up figure it's dependent on how much money the movie makes and that's what Golovkin is thinking.
Kovalev knocks him out in 6-8 rounds. I think he's going for the kill with a better gas tank and I think Ward will be expecting that which will make him more defensive which will be his downfall. Ward mostly scored on jabs. That's not gonna do much for a guy like Kovalev looking for a knock out this time around.
some fortune teller, she correctly predicted a gypsy would defeat Wladimir Klitschko, and I asked her about the Golovkin-Jacobs fight, she said the man who used to be severally ill will win the fight
Maybe triple g had asthma back in the day?
That's ****ing horse **** because they know triple G has wanted to fight in Kazakhstan for a while now. It's no secret he's been wanting to get a fight in June. Those of you buying this are ****ing morons.
Dollar for dollar, Garcia-Thurman is a better fight card than Golovkin-Jacobs, and that's without much argument, tbh.
For the NY fight fan with $200 to spend on a big outing, they're heading to Brooklyn over Manhattan, imo
Nah man, the Garden is still the Garden. I have friends from Maryland who bought tickets with me and we all going. One of them is really excited about it being Madison square garden.
But yeah, they are expensive. Spent over 200 for mine
Barclays Center, when it comes to boxing, has been eating MSG's lunch for a while, and is emerging as one of the premier boxing venues on the planet.
Nostalgia only goes so far, tbh
I was there for Jacobs/Quillin and it's nice but it was like half empty. Not saying you're wrong but they've also been getting more and better fights than MSG.
Have you been to a fight at Barclay? If so, how are the cheaper seats as far as viewing the ring? I'm gonna try to get to a summer show down there but I'm not paying top $ most likely
I think I paid some where between 60-80 for Jacobs/quillin and those seats were pretty damn good