Why is Kovalev getting rounds 3, 4, and 5 by default? Because of the KD?

[Chollo Vista]

Ward controlled the fight after the 3rd/4th round

3rd/4th could've went either way

I can say with surety that I can't give Kovalev a round after the 4th. Ward did better work on the inside/outside. Ward landed crisp head snapping jabs and punished sergey to the body. And oh yeah, Kovalev hit a lot of air after the 2nd round knockdown

Ward won the fight hands down

[The Gambler1981]

i tend to have that kind of wishy washy middle of the road opinion on most things but when you have such clear incompetence, the only logical conclusion is corruption, we all know hooker lost, he lost every single round. And they gave it a draw. We all know what that is, you can't beat around the bush.

So you got corruption on the undercard, now take the main event, with 100X more money and stake involved.
Surely logic dictates that if corruption is involved on a low money fight involving a prospect and perez a guy who's on his way out. There must be corruption on the main card too...

I watch alot of boxing and i try to wash over all the robberies i have seen, but its happening week in, week out, year in year out.
All incompetent judges with a bad view? i'd like to think so, but i think we all know deep down boxing is rotten to the core. But we tend to gloss over it because we love the sport and give the benefit of the doubt.

I didnt score the Curtis steven's fight but looks like he got a gift there too.

So you can make the argument that 3/3 fights on the card all had corruption involved.
Now that is a slight stretch as the main event was a closeish fight. But to me a closeish fight can still be a robbery/corrupt if the wrong man one.

Corruption and incompetence are two different things.

You can never count out incompetence, because people can always mess up. Plus those were terrible fights so judging them had to be a real chore, which leads to messing up. Which is a pretty big problem I would agree.

Corruption is nefarious and it is possibility close fight/wide fight doesn't matter. I just don't find it likely.


Judging fights is so far from perfect under the best case scenario and it really needs to be changed but given the subjective nature of judging a fight there will always be quite a bit of variance no matter how much training or what adjustments they make to the scoring system to make it a more accurate depiction of a fight.