Just saw the official score cards

[Kigali]

I haven't seen the fight yet so I'll assume that Ward was on his game. I always said right from the beginning that if Kovalev didn't knock Ward out, Ward would win on points. Vegas venue wouldn't see it any other way IMO. For those who did see it was it a decisive win or could it have gone either way?

It's on youtube already.

[PK3434]

I haven't seen the fight yet so I'll assume that Ward was on his game. I always said right from the beginning that if Kovalev didn't knock Ward out, Ward would win on points. Vegas venue wouldn't see it any other way IMO. For those who did see it was it a decisive win or could it have gone either way?

Ward battled but I thought it should have been a clear Kovalev victory.
I think judges and fans/media are way too cute when scoring fights. Kovalev clearly won several rounds. Ward didn't clearly win many rounds at all. Kovalev had just as much "ring generalship" as Ward. If you were watching these guys for the first time you wouldn't automatically assume that Ward is the better boxer..because he wasn't.

Ward did some nice work to the body, but his shots had no effect on Kovalev. But every time Kovalev even landed a jab, it did some damage to Ward. That should matter when scoring a fight (unless a guy like Ward is scoring non-stop...but he wasn't).

I laughed at a thread a week or so ago about the all US judges having a possible affect on this fight...but it could be true. Ward got the benifet of the doubt on every close round...from what? Reputation? The crowd noise? Or something else? I don't know.

[StefanTosic]

I laughed at a thread a week or so ago about the all US judges having a possible affect on this fight...but it could be true. Ward got the benifet of the doubt on every close round...from what? Reputation? The crowd noise? Or something else? I don't know.

LOL me too! I didn't even wanted to waste my time on commenting it. Little did I know...

[R_Walken]

Cards were legit


Kovalev wasn't very impressive past the 2nd round. It became a close fight with Kov not doing enough in the rounds

[FeFist]

I haven't done the math, but I assumed Ward had to win 8 rounds to make up for the knockdown.

If you did the math, you would gave realised that isn't the case. 1 knockdown doesn't change the minimum number of rounds needed to win assuming there aren't any point deductions. 7 rounds would be 114 over 113 as opposed to 115 over 113.

[RespekonMyName]

If you did the math, you would gave realised that isn't the case. 1 knockdown doesn't change the minimum number of rounds needed to win assuming there aren't any point deductions. 7 rounds would be 114 over 113 as opposed to 115 over 113.

Ahhh. Thanks for being my calculator.

[SCEN3RY]

Kovalev won 5 of the first 6 rounds.

That means Ward has to sweep the last half of the fight to win, he conveniently done just that on two cards despite clearly losing at least one round (two on my card).

Under card and main event, pure corruption.

It's just a bad look. And no top class fighter is going to wanna work with ROC nation. What fighter is going to be eager to get on one of their cards after the circus last night?

[Graz]

It's on youtube already.

Thanks. I'll give it a look.