Comments Thread For: Andre Ward: Kovalev Won't Bully Me - He Tires, He Gets Frustrated

[Bronx2245]

Can't wait for this fight! So close, yet still, so far away! Definitely a 50/50 fight; puncher vs. boxer! May the best man win!

[ultravividscene]

Ward is certainly not featherfisted and can be a bit a bully himself. The outcome is by no means preordained and it's these kind of fights that make following the sport a joy

[Kigali]

he does that on purpose so his opponents think they can hit him...just like ggg gets hit on purpose and floyd vs cotto and maidana

So there's a method to his madness/sloppiness..

Smart guy.

[JimmyD729]

Ummm "Dre" you ARE the bully. You have been bullying guys your whole career. Fighting at your natural weight of 178 in the olympics and then turning pro and fighting 160 and 168 pound smaller guys so you can bully them around. And if picking on smaller guys isn't enough for you, you don't even fight them fair in the ring. You resort to fouling, clinching, jab jab then dive in with a headbutt. Then after the headbutt you hit them with your patented sucker punch left hook. You get into personal beefs with all your opponents before your fights and they remain your enemies after your fights, many of whom have showed you nothing but respect. You have berated many of the media members, simply for doing their jobs and asking you questions. You admit you have to cut a good amount of weight to make 175 but then you've been verbally abusing and have been obsessed with fighting a small middleweight who walks around at 165 between fights? YOU are the bully! And so in your last fight you bring up some no name journeyman fighter from a smaller weight class that nobody has ever heard of as a punching bag (who you couldn't even get out of there) and you make 850k and you paid him...30k? That right there is the epitome of being a bully.

[BlakBread904]

Kovalev squares himself up and drops his hands after he punches.

Ward will make him pay for that.

plus, Kovalev likes to retreat in straight lines. Ward can certainly catch him cleanly in those situations.

[daggum]

plus, Kovalev likes to retreat in straight lines. Ward can certainly catch him cleanly in those situations.

he doesn't like to he's just too slow and uncoordinated to do anything else

[Kigali]

Ummm "Dre" you ARE the bully. You have been bullying guys your whole career. Fighting at your natural weight of 178 in the olympics and then turning pro and fighting 160 and 168 pound smaller guys so you can bully them around. And if picking on smaller guys isn't enough for you, you don't even fight them fair in the ring. You resort to fouling, clinching, jab jab then dive in with a headbutt. Then after the headbutt you hit them with your patented sucker punch left hook. You get into personal beefs with all your opponents before your fights and they remain your enemies after your fights, many of whom have showed you nothing but respect. You have berated many of the media members, simply for doing their jobs and asking you questions. You admit you have to cut a good amount of weight to make 175 but then you've been verbally abusing and have been obsessed with fighting a small middleweight who walks around at 165 between fights? YOU are the bully! And so in your last fight you bring up some no name journeyman fighter from a smaller weight class that nobody has ever heard of as a punching bag (who you couldn't even get out of there) and you make 850k and you paid him...30k? That right there is the epitome of being a bully.

You're a delusional crybaby

[Kigali]

plus, Kovalev likes to retreat in straight lines. Ward can certainly catch him cleanly in those situations.

I noticed that too.

[BlakBread904]

he doesn't like to he's just too slow and uncoordinated to do anything else

semantics.

point is, Kovalev retreats in straight lines.

[Jimmy 23]

You have been bullying guys your whole career. Fighting at your natural weight of 178 in the olympics and then turning pro and fighting 160 and 168 pound smaller guys so you can bully them around.

N'Jikam in the olympics fought at lightheavy too, Ruenrong at
lightweight (132 lbs) but in pros they are regular size middleweight and regular size flyweight (112 lbs).Loma fought at 132 (OG) and 140 (WSB) but in the pro he started at 126.Do you know why?Because amateurs weighs in goes at the same day as fight and before EVERY fight on tournament.So they can't drain himself much.PRO LHW can be 175 pounds, but fight day he'll be 190 pounds.AMA must to be 178 on fight day (lightmiddleweights Trout, Lara, Alvarez walks aroud 170-174).Think dumb b1tch.