Sergey Kovalev vs. Andre Ward: who will you be rooting for?

[Fury4daWIN]

Kovalev is fearless, but Ward panics like a coward when someone hits him and he resorts to illegal tactics (low blow vs. Barrera, head butts vs Kessler & Abraham, arm-clamping, etc).

Neither man is a coward ****weed.

[Froch_uppercut]

Jesus Christ man damn, shut yo racist ass up..every time a black man is on top you slander them and make 10000000 excuses to not give them credit..its ****ing ridiculous...ANYWAY I JUST WANT A GOOD FIGHT AS I LIKE BOTH BUT I THINK WARD WILL WIN...

Every time someone doesn't like a black guy it's cos they're racist?

What if I don't like him cos he's a bum slaying, contract delaying, fighting at home, horrible to watch, headbutting, clinching whining, fight-three-times-every 5 years, smug "I bled for America" (lmao) ****head?

Is that ok to not like him?

I also dislike Tyson Fury for being a ****head, am I racist for that?

[Raggamuffin]

Why would anyone root for a boring boxer like Andre Ward who needs to rely on illegal tactics to win?

Kovalev is much better for the sport of boxing.

This is one of the sorriest answers to a post that I've read on any forum.

[GMAN SUPREME]

Kovalev is not a racist. He has a black trainer, a black cutman, and is a friend of Bernard Hopkins.

Ward is actually more racist, despite having an Irish-American father that got him into boxing while his crack-addict mother abandoned him.

Ward is a selfish, disingenuous prima donna. Kovalev is a honest, decent man.

lol andre ward's mother was a crack head? that might explain ward's lazy/freaky eye.

[The Hammer]

Looks like both will have many supporters on here.

[Madison Boxing]

Kovalev is fearless, but Ward panics like a coward when someone hits him and he resorts to illegal tactics (low blow vs. Barrera, head butts vs Kessler & Abraham, arm-clamping, etc).

deducted points for fouling against rodriguez too

[The Hammer]

deducted points for fouling against rodriguez too

Reiss deducted 2 points from both Rodriguez and from Ward, even though the only one who was fouling was Ward.

[The Hammer]

[Weltschmerz]

yeah, the board here will be divided too, this will be good.

[Citizen Koba]

I'll be rooting for Kovalev but I'll be shocked if he beats Ward. I've always thought the biggest challenge for Ward at LHW would be Stevenson. A fight we'll probably never see.

I don't see it, Stevenson's trickier than he looks but still a bit of a one trick pony - though that 'one trick' is a huge equaliser. I think Ward finds Stevenson's timing early and beats him to the punch all night, disrupting and smothering where necessary. Course, maybe he can neutralise Kovalev too, but Sergeis range control and movement are far better than Stevenson's and to my mind he's way less predictable.

Oh yeah. The poll. Ermmm. Just wanna see a good fight - but yeah, I'll prolly be rooting for Kovalev.