Sergey Kovalev vs. Andre Ward - Official PPV Discussion

[RED REP]

He landed more and kept Dre moving away from the action as per

[The Akbar One]

I had it wider for Ward. Not sure why Kovalev or his fans are even upset. Kovalev's reputation of being stubborn showed tonight, and it's part of the reason why he lost. JDJ even told him to stay on the outside and stop clinching. What did Kovalev do though? He disregarded, and kept clinching and Wrastlin. While he is wrastlin, he isn't scoring. Ward was outworking the second half of the fight. Had Kovalev kept boxing from the outside, he would have stopped Ward inside four or five rounds. Ward couldn't avoid the shots, he would eat one to land one.

[The Akbar One]

Someone tell me what 8 rounds Ward won?!

Kovalev threw more
Landed more
Made the fight
Knocked Ward down heavily
Was undefeated champion

For **** sake boxing come on!!!

Kovalev landed more punches in your imagination.

[Mammoth]

Kovalev landed more punches in your imagination.

Compubox says otherwise

[Hype job]

andre ward's jaw drops in amazement that he won a fight where he did little in other than lovetap kovalev on the hip while clinched

he then confidently boasts "im not surprised at all"

and "first time in my career ive been dropped"

lmao you could tell right after the decision came in he didn't believe he won that sht.

[StefanTosic]

and "first time in my career ive been dropped"

Kovalev's knockdown must have deleted all of his previous memories. On a serious note Ward showed a lot of courage and I'm not suprised, I knew that he's very tough, and he made it competitive but no way he won. If some people think that Kovalev only won 3 or 4 rounds than Ward did even lesser. It looks like for some people to give Kovalev a round, he has to hurt Ward badly and stun him, if not they automaticaly score it for Ward.

I separated this fight in 3 nonchronological/nonlinear parts:
1st - Obvious Ward rounds
2nd - Obvious Kovalev rounds
3rd - Kovalev's rounds, where Ward did better than in those rounds where he got outclassed, but Kovalev still won them. I think the rounds 9 & 10 are a good exemple. He was landing better shots and outworking him, but since Ward managed to land 2 or 3 shots, unlinke in the 2nd part where he did nothing, Kellermann was going nuts, praising him, while ignoring all the good work Kovalev did in those same rounds. Just how many times he kept on chatting with RJJ while he was landing some good shots as if nothing happened.

[GMAN SUPREME]

kovalev's victory was stolen from him.

[gauze]

this is how i scored the fight...

kovalev vs ward

1 10-9
2 10-8
3 10-9
4 10-9
5 9-10
6 10-9
7 9-10
8 9-10
9 9-10
10 10-9
11 9-10
12 10-9

115-112 kovalev.

and i wasnt around last night so i dont know if anyone posted this regarding the break between the 10th and and 11th but....

[joseph5620]

I don't really go in for that, but Ward didn't win anyway so it doesn't matter.

Your true colors are really coming out after this fight. Your agenda has always been obvious but it's really clear now.😁

[gauze]

Did Lampley just say that the Garcia Gym is a really tough training environment?

Drinking beer, not making weight and talking to Elle all day is tough??

i would assume so. REEEEE-porting.