Comments Thread For: Andre Ward Gets Off The Floor, Decisions Sergey Kovalev

[-Hyperion-]

0 judges gave Kovalev the 10th.....why am i not surprised.....looking for every excuse to give it to Ward...

[Ryn0]

For ward to win he had to win 8 rounds cause of the kd. Did anyone really give ward more then 6?

No you have to give 7 to ward for him to win the fight... with the KD it looks like a 7-6 rather than a 7-5 if you score 7 rounds for Ward. Which is feasible.

Regardless, it was a great close fight.

[Pigeons]

Clearly.. And a ton of respect to kov. He's still top 5 p4p

But tonight is about the greatest nation with the greatest fighter today

They won't give Ward P4P #1. The fight was too close and since most fans hate Ward their screams of robbery will prevent his ascension. It's not all bad though, we should see them fight again in 2017.

[billfifty]

Except he didn't. I get that he slowed down the second half. But Ward didn't exactly take him to deep waters or test his will, nothing of the sort. He just sort of hang in there, threw a few jabs, landed some body shots at the end of clinches...and..well, just sort of stuck around. Kovalev still managed to land way harder shots.

I think at the end of the day Kovalev will regret not being more aggressive to put it beyond the judges. If we're honest, and roles reverse, Ward wins a 120-108 decision.

But we give credit to Ward for hanging in there and doing cool stuff that accomplished little but slow down the fight

But that's my point, it appears Kovalev is not a twelve round fighter. Wards jabs to the body was enough to drown him....and this is the undisputed champion....he couldn't maintain his stamina in a fight where he could have easily won if he could have just fought the full three minutes in a couple of the latter rounds.

[Rope_Burns]

Had it 7-5 Kovalev plus the KD. Great fight either way. Much respect to Ward and Kovalev.

[JaguaresMx]

Ward needed to win 8 rounds to win the fight. There is no way he won 8 rounds or even 7.
He didn't do enough to beat the Champion. Even the punch stats favor Kovalev. The pro-Ward crowd was silent for most of the fight. I mean....

#Anti-Ward
#Don'tsupportanythingAndreWard
#Don'tletWardgetanyofyourmoney
#Don'tmakeWardanyricher
#Don'tbuytherematch

Honestly if the roles reversed, Ward fans the judges/crowd would have called it a dominant, once in a generation 120-108 assault on Kovalev.

The problem is that we all have these narratives that shape how we judge fights. Ward just needs to do a few things and Kovalev must KO to win.

[John Locke]

I'm astounded by the amount of people saying Kovalev won the fight because he landed more punches. Fights are scored on a round by round basis fellas, Kovalev started the fight very strong and won some rounds by clear margins, whereas the rounds Dre won were by smaller margins.

[slow_ek9]

Those are some crooked judges seriously lol If I were kovalev I wouldn't even want a rematch cause he'll get robbed again.

[MOMENTO MORI]

Ward needed to win 8 rounds to win the fight. There is no way he won 8 rounds or even 7.
He didn't do enough to beat the Champion. Even the punch stats favor Kovalev. The pro-Ward crowd was silent for most of the fight. I mean....

#Anti-Ward
#Don'tsupportanythingAndreWard
#Don'tletWardgetanyofyourmoney
#Don'tmakeWardanyricher
#Don'tbuytherematch

DAMN bruh it wasn't Ward fault he won...or maybe it was lolololololol

[stuff jones]

And Kovalev just started to follow him around instead of cutting off the ring....I think Kovalev got exposed tonight and now everyone will just try to take him into deep waters and hope he drowns like he did tonight.

Lol exposed? He lost a controversial decision to a great fighter and knocked him down in the process.