Kovalev V Andre Ward is NO WHERE NEAR a 50 50 fight.

[slimshandy69]

Kovalev slight underdog, so im gonna have to shove a load of money on him.

[Madison Boxing]

Lets take away who you think is better for a second. Some may think Ward more skilful, some may think kovelev power is to much, lets forget all of that and admit that both are elite fighters.

So once you remove they are elite fighters, i cannot see for the life of me how Andre ward beats Kovalev. He's simply not faced tough enough opposition at supper middle/catch weights since Carl Froch. Over weight Super middles, Over weight c level catch weights, this is not preparation for Adonis Stevenson let alone Sergey Kovavlev.

I played Tennis at a high level when younger and i can tell you, even if you are way more talented than your opponent, if they are fairly gifted, but are training with much better guys than you, who push him much harder than you are being pushed then chances are you will lose on simply not being prepared.

Sergey has faced ismael Silakh, Cleverly, Hopkins, Pascal twice, Chilemba, with a few okayish B level opponents thrown in the mix.

Ward has faced NOT only less opponents in the last three years here's who he has faced, Edwin rodriguez(who missed the weight), paul Smith(missed the weight and is a C level fighter being generous),Sullivan barrea(getting better tbf) and now Alexander Brand.

Taking talent aside how on earth is Ward even slightly prepared for Kovalev?

Discuss.

great post and you are correct. i keep saying this, its going to be one of them fights where after the fight, people think why the **** did i predict that? Many of them prediction ward to win, predicted a 50 year old bernard hopkins to beat him. Now they are predicting a fighter who has fought literally noone in 5 years and noone at the weight, to beat the top dog at light heavy. His best win was beating froch by one round 6 years ago, i like cobra but he can definitely be outboxed. People are just dismissing me as a hater, but trust me this fight is going to be pretty one sided.

[SkillspayBills]

Just posting so I can bump this thread on the 20th.

[KingHippo]

Kovalev is lucky if he gets a 30% connect rate.

[daggum]

headbutting and clinching=skill! if ward does that and wins everyoen will pretend like it didn't matter. how do we know that? because its happened many times already. then they will call you a hater for not liking cheaters. if kovalev wins boxing prevails

[zetsui]

The tennis wiz has spoken. No need to watch this one I guess.

Lulz these guys crack me up too

[daggum]

I give the edge to kovalev

Wards right shoulder is messed up imho

If you look at the barrera fight he didnt throw it with conviction and he turned southpaw vs brand to go for the ko

no ward just has a terrible right hand. he almost never uses it. he fights just like cotto.

[KingHippo]

headbutting and clinching=skill!if ward does that and wins everyoen will pretend like it didn't matter. how do we know that? because its happened many times already. then they will call you a hater for not liking cheaters. if kovalev wins boxing prevails

Nah, you just DKNSAB.

[KingHippo]

no ward just has a terrible right hand. he almost never uses it. he fights just like cotto.

What???? The straight right is one of the most powerful tools in Ward's arsenal. Just like Mayweather. I'm done with you clown, go play somewhere, boxing is NOT for you.

[daggum]

What???? The straight right is one of the most powerful tools in Ward's arsenal. Just like Mayweather. I'm done with you clown, go play somewhere, boxing is NOT for you.

no its not. he's left hand dominant. he barely uses it. when he does its mostly as a throw away punch in a combo to setup the left. when he does land it, it has no power. boxing is not for you. i know everything about boxing.