Nathan Cleverly "i won first 2 rounds and was winning the third"

[deanrw]

If you are British and fighting in the UK and you are standing on your feet you are winning the fight.

Cleverley was well on his way to a 113-112 113-112 105-120 split decision victory thanks to a few friendly judges.

LMAO. I have no problem with him being delusional. Fighters after a loss quite often work their minds a certain way to overcome the loss and start the ability to regain their confidence. Since he said that, he is already thinking of making a comeback and not retiring. If he can convince himself that he was controlling the fght but made a fatal error, he will suddenly get the bug to fight again back.

[Weebler I]

He lost every minute of every round. It was one of the most one sided World Title fights in history

Didn't you see the Mares fight at the weekend? or the Dawson-Stevenson fight? and those are only from this year never mind history.

Cleverly lost, but he went three or four rounds (9 minutes) and iirc cut his opponent.

Suffering from what's known as the Ricky Hatton syndrome.

"I was winning by a country mile before I was stopped"

Tbf Hatton was only referring to the second round, which while I think he lost was relatively competitive until the last 10 seconds.

[BlueBaureit99]

He was being dominated by Kovalev. I had the Russian easily winning every single round so far.

really? How? I think Cleverly was winning the first few rounds and catching Kovalev with some shots. Yes, then the fight was over, but to say Kovalev won every round is interesting to me because he barely touched Cleverly in the first 2 rounds.

[Weebler I]

If you are British and fighting in the UK and you are standing on your feet you are winning the fight.

Cleverley was well on his way to a 113-112 113-112 105-120 split decision victory thanks to a few friendly judges.

Tell Lucas Matthysse what it's like trying to win a decision against a US opponent in the States.

[JaguaresMx]

Like pac fans have taught me, I don't let KO's and KD's get in the way of scoring.

That's just ignorant.

[prinzemanspopa]

Clev fight, stopping fight, restarting it, carrying Clev to his corner.

sackable offences if they weren't in Cardiff.

On the other side of the argument, he didn't disqualify, deduct a point, or even warn Kovalev for clobbering Cleverly while he was already down and clearly in no position to defend himself (Sir Joe certainly wasn't pleased, and made the point of using the dreaded finger point in Kovalev's direction to highlight his anger.) Nor did he even give him the time or opportunity to recover from an obviously damaging blow, which nobody could have faulted him for doing.

[Bigg Rigg]

Oh great! Cleverly is a ****** now. Lol Drago whooped u bro, deal with it. U wasnt winning ****.

[DreamFighter]

On the other side of the argument, he didn't disqualify, deduct a point, or even warn Kovalev for clobbering Cleverly while he was already down and clearly in no position to defend himself (Sir Joe certainly wasn't pleased, and made the point of using the dreaded finger point in Kovalev's direction to highlight his anger.) Nor did he even give him the time or opportunity to recover from an obviously damaging blow, which nobody could have faulted him for doing.

Yes these too are flaws but they aren't exactly opposite sides of the coin. I'm pointing out what the ref did deliberately and consciously (fully aware he was making errors but doing them anyway), whilst you are pointing out what he didn't do (and can be excused for not noticing).

Cheating requires a conscious choice to act wrongly, whereas incompetence is just plain ******ity.

[Weebler I]

Yes these too are flaws but they aren't exactly opposite sides of the coin. I'm pointing out what the ref did deliberately and consciously (fully aware he was making errors but doing them anyway), whilst you are pointing out what he didn't do (and can be excused for not noticing).

Cheating requires a conscious choice to act wrongly, whereas incompetence is just plain ******ity.

He did notice it since it was right in front of him and ran to stop Kovalev. He could've DQ'd Sergey had he wanted to, technically he should have and Cleverly should still have the belt, but he didn't.

Maybe if Clev had pulled some b1tch **** like Dirrell v Abraham or Hopkins v Dawson...

[bopbopbbe]

Did cleverly even throw a punch that wasnt a a jab the entire fight? Kovalev was outboxing him while beating his ass at the same time.