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To my knowledge there is no footage and plenty of people - including myself - have put some effort into looking. There also ain't much in the way of witness accounts though I did manage to find a coupla things none of which are satisfactory. Officially there was 1 KD - probably in the 6th, though I've heard it said Boone reckons there were further KDs that weren't counted.
Best I've been able to reconstruct it Kovalev started off dominantly (commentary from Boone 2 suggests Kovalev at least felt he let Boone off the hook early) but then gassed badly somewhere around the 5th, got dropped in the 6th and basically just hung on 'through will alone' or somesuch I think he said in one interview.
I'm not sure about claims that Boone should have got the nod, the fight was in his home town and at the time Kovalev was a literal nobody with no real backing - in short there was no real reason to suspect it, and Deezol did also claim that he should have gotten the nod against Ward, which he clearly shouldn't from the footage.
Kovalev claims his preparation was off - mentally - for the fight leading him first to take Boone lightly then from the sounds work himself into something of a panic in the days leading up to the fight and perhaps overtrain. Also worth noting that Kovalev had never fought beyond 2 rounds in a pro ring prior to meeting Deezol and was only 9 fights into his career - guess his inexperience was a major factor here and I guess the fight was a real learning experience for him.
Best I've been able to reconstruct it Kovalev started off dominantly (commentary from Boone 2 suggests Kovalev at least felt he let Boone off the hook early) but then gassed badly somewhere around the 5th, got dropped in the 6th and basically just hung on 'through will alone' or somesuch I think he said in one interview.
I'm not sure about claims that Boone should have got the nod, the fight was in his home town and at the time Kovalev was a literal nobody with no real backing - in short there was no real reason to suspect it, and Deezol did also claim that he should have gotten the nod against Ward, which he clearly shouldn't from the footage.
Kovalev claims his preparation was off - mentally - for the fight leading him first to take Boone lightly then from the sounds work himself into something of a panic in the days leading up to the fight and perhaps overtrain. Also worth noting that Kovalev had never fought beyond 2 rounds in a pro ring prior to meeting Deezol and was only 9 fights into his career - guess his inexperience was a major factor here and I guess the fight was a real learning experience for him.
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