Comments Thread For: Sergey Kovalev Stops Jean Pascal in a Fire Fight

[SugarRaRobinson]

But he still had a punchers chance. An injured Lion is sometimes the most dangerous. Kovalev got rocked going for the kill in the 3rd round, and was visibly shook several times in the fight, if he would have carelessly walked into one of Pascals wild haymakers, it could have changed the fight around again, and Pascal has shown throughout his career nothing if not the ability to come back and come back firing when he is hurt.

Marquez always got his chance, why didn't Pascal?

Also, very poor officiating, when he sends them to the neutral corners, he should have not resumed action with kovalev in the center of the ring.

P.S. Pascal should have been credited with a knockdown.

This post is plastic man , in other words a real stretch ! While Pascal valiantly tested that chin , and even flustered Kovalev much of the time with herky jerky defense movements making him miss a lot , he seemed never to be in any serious danger so let not us Pascal fans turn into what those Guerrero fans turned into last week attempting to tout things that didnt exist ! If were going to tout anything , it should be that he gave his all , but lets not reach for s..t

[elishua F]

Wow, you just made yourself look like a fool. They have the same reach and only a half inch difference in height.

when i check boxrec, adonis has a five inch reach advantage on pascal..

adonis does not have pascal chin though, but he could put kov to sleep with that power ..

[Foreign Soil]

Its not sour G****s, I like Kovalev, and dislike Pascal, I am just not biased.

Pascal clipped Kovalev with a hook when he came in to finish him, Kovalev was square and off balance, but would not have gone down without the punch.

It wasn't a slip or a fall, he went down because he was punched, that is the definition of a knockdown.

He wasn't hurt, or even buzzed, but he was still knocked down. An off balance knockdown is still a knockdown, even if the guy that just knocked you down is out on his feet.

No it isn't. It's a judgement call for the ref to make and he clearly saw that it was not a knockdown.

PS. You're biased like everyone.

[richardt]

when i check boxrec, adonis has a five inch reach advantage on pascal..

adonis does not have pascal chin though, but he could put kov to sleep with that power ..

Uh, um....who was talking about Adonis? You said "pascal short a$$ arms had no business touching kovalevs chin like that". They have the same reach. Check boxrec. They both have a 72 inch reach.

[elishua F]

kov hits like theres bowling balls in his gloves damn.. even the misses rock you, wtf do they eat in russia..but adonis has bombs too..only shot i give adonis is a hail mary..and judging from kovs defense, that hail mary can land

[koolbreez12]

Second shot landed on the top corner of the head.

Back to reading comprehension.. Again. Did I ever say the punch didn't land on his head? I said the first was clean, the second was not flush because it hit shoulder first. You can sit and nitpick wording all night, but you knew the gist of what I was saying. Only an immature boy would try to become Webster in technicality to feel better about a point that should've been elementary to understand. The 2nd punch was not that damaging, because it hit shoulder first. End of story. You can keep all the rest of your Poindexter "technicallys" and beat off to your "war of wits". Its late, and i have some p×××¥ to go hit..flush!!

[SugarRaRobinson]

Originally Posted by !! Shawn
Its not sour G****s, I like Kovalev, and dislike Pascal, I am just not biased.

Pascal clipped Kovalev with a hook when he came in to finish him, Kovalev was square and off balance, but would not have gone down without the punch.

It wasn't a slip or a fall, he went down because he was punched, that is the definition of a knockdown.

He wasn't hurt, or even buzzed, but he was still knocked down. An off balance knockdown is still a knockdown, even if the guy that just knocked you down is out on his feet.

Fair assessment Shawn , I liked the timing of the stoppage , pascal was taking clean head shots at that time and wasn't moving , countering or clinching , therefore u stop it because this guys "circumspect" power has killed a fighter before !

[!! Shawn]

This lion's energy was gone, even if he threw I'm not sure there would have been much on the punches due to fatigue. It was getting dangerous, Pabon did the right thing imo.

I am not sure I agree, granted Pascal has stamina issues, so he wasn't 1st round fresh, but neither was Kovalev, and with guys like either of them, they can load up for the burst with everything they have and are dangerous from the first bell to the last bell.

Pascal problem at the end was he got clipped behind the ear so it effected his equilibrium, but not his senses and awareness. Thats what made it a bad stoppage. Think back to Pavlik vs Taylor 1. There is different kinds of "hurt" there is you dont know where you are hurt, and there is equilibrium hurt.

equillibrium shots behind or on the ear, feel like you just got spun around really fast in a chair then have to walk a straight line.

You can tell that he was still game by the fact that he had the senses to fire the counter shots that DID put Kovalev down. But yeah if he didn't put Kovalev down, and Kovalev took his time, he would have most likely been able to stop him legitimately. Just as he would have been able to if Pabon didn't blow his load all over the camera.

I am all about protecting a fighters health, but its not like he had been eating bombs all night. And he already showed that he can bounce back and hurt Kovalev when he is hurt, so why not give him that chance?

Boxings history is nothing if not a compendium of fighters who are badly hurt coming back to win fights against all odds.

Every time a ref blows their load early like this, they rob us of more of that history that makes this sport so great.

[richardt]

Back to reading comprehension.. Again. Did I ever say the punch didn't land on his head? I said the first was clean, the second was not flush because it hit shoulder first. You can sit and nitpick wording all night, but you knew the gist of what I was saying. Only an immature boy would try to become Webster in technicality to feel better about a point that should've been elementary to understand. The 2nd punch was not that damaging, because it hit shoulder first. End of story. You can keep all the rest of your Poindexter "technicallys" and beat off to your "war of wits". Its late, and i have some p×××¥ to go hit..flush!!

No one said ANYTHING about the punch being damaging or not, just you grabbing straws while you sink in quicksand! Please leave and take your tail with you between your legs and your low IQ with you too, it does not belong in a debate with someone who you have no business debating with. Take this with you: If a baseball bounces off of two walls and hits a guy in the temple, it landed FLUSH! It does not MATTER how many surfaces an object hits, or the IMPACT it has, it is WHERE it lands that determines if it is flush or not!! Get that through your teeny, tiny brain.

[Rope_Burns]

Good fight by Kovalev. Got tested a bit but his monstrous power came through in the end. Pascal gave him his best test so far and was a game fighter with a good chin but it wasn't enough. Bring on Kovalev vs Stevenson next. Krusher will krush Stevenson.