Could anyone on Ward's resume hang with Kovalev?

[CaneloMaidana]

Ward at 164 >> Dawson at 168. Go vent your butthurt elsewhere, sorry alt

Ha you're the one who cries if someone doesn't crown your coward. Racist loser.

[HeroBando]

Ha you're the one who cries if someone doesn't crown your coward. Racist loser.

Ouch. Must have hurt your feelings pretty bad at some point, whoever the fcuk you are, sad alt

[-Kev-]

Darnell Boone must be the best worst boxer in the world. He gave three excellent champions, Stevenson, Ward and Kovalev all they could handle. Still his overall record is terrible with a very low KO percentage. He is a dangerous spoiler and whoever fights him better keep their guard up and not take him lightly. He might have one of his good nights.

The 24% KO percentage is misleading. Boxrec is calculating all 49 of Boone's pro fights, including his 22 losses and 4 Draws. This is how they got the 24% figure. 12 KO's of 49 fights is 24%. If you calculate only his wins his KO % is still a little low but it's 52% which is average.

Now yeah you might say, well the KO % is what are the chances of that guy knocking you out, win, lose or draw. But is that really a fair way to tell someone's power? I don't think it is.

[CaneloMaidana]

Ouch. Must have hurt your feelings pretty bad at some point, whoever the fcuk you are, sad alt

Golovkin is your only reason for living you coward.

[HeroBando]

Golovkin is your only reason for living you coward.

But you're a pathetic alt whose sole purpose here is hating on GGG, so that means a lot

[joseph5620]

But Ward doesn't have that Dawson on his resume, it was a corpse he beat. Hopkins still wouldn't have issues beating the 168 Dawson. You're better off going with Froch

The point went over your empty head as usual. 50 year old Hopkins was not better than all of Ward's best victories. Does that make it easier for you?

[SHO_RULEZ]

You guys really really underestimating Carl Froch. He as that extra something...guts ,toughness, will...that could give Kovalev some problems.

[lefthook2daliva]

Wards resume.e is slightly overrated.
And it was so long ago.

Dawson was a very overrated win.
Sakio bika could of beat dawson that night.
WaRd has the hometown treatment as well.

Everybody **** all over Ward 'cause he didn't stop Dawson from dropping down to 168 to fight for the SMW title. Even his fans acknowledge that Dawson was not at his best. So no. Not overrated.

Also, which fight did Andre win 'cause it was held in Oakland?

[HeroBando]

The point went over your empty head as usual. 50 year old Hopkins was not better than all of Ward's best victories. Does that make it easier for you?

Honestly, hed have a decent chance vs Wards best scalp Froch, who never fancied it. But poor way to make your point with Dawson, but at least you acknowledge it with this feeble backtracking

[sunny31]

How could anyone say that Froch couldn't "hang" with Kovalev. I haven't seen enough evidence from Kovalev to think that a fight with a prime Froch would be anything other than very tough, maybe 60-40 in Kovalev's direction. I think people get too caught up in the weight divisions, but in certain cases like this one that size probably wouldn't play much of a factor. Also the people who come to the conclusion that this is an easy fight for Kovalev do so because they think Froch is open and easy to hit and Kovalev destroys everything he hits, but boxing is not that simple. Froch has a huge mental game, he would actually probably jump on Kovalev early and ask questions of him, he would make Kovalev uncomfortable. Froch is the type of fighter that will go after you until you offer up something that stops him, he is not going to just let you into a fight unless you earn that right, Bute being the perfect example.

Froch can also **** and he is not afraid to swing at his opponent and that makes him very dangerous for anyone, Kovalev has not fought anyone on that level yet. The version of Hopkins he fought and Pascal 5 years removed from his prime are impressive wins, but not elite wins in my honest opinion. Even in his prime Pascal was not on Froch's level, and certainly not Ward's.

If you are saying that guys like Froch have no chance against Kovalev, even if they are 168lbers, that is a hell of a statement. You are basically anointing Kovalev as an ATG, and I am not sure I can agree with that just yet. I haven't seen this guy up against an elite prime fighter. Don't get me wrong, he has a good resume, but we need to see him against really dangerous fighters. i.e Stevenson, Ward. Those fights present very different problems but equally dangerous.