Comments Thread For: Hunter: If 'Kitty' Kovalev Fought Inside - Ward Would Stop Him!

[BillyBoxing]

Freedom *****ed FOR MONTHS about clinching, holding, and illegal tactics but I haven't heard A SINGLE PEEP from him about all the holding Kovalev did and the illegal headlocks he implemented to keep from fighting in the inside.

Not so illegal heablocks since Ward himself bumrush face first fighting on the inside/ala Holyfield.

That's maybe why Kova was able to healdlock dre.

[HAY-B]

Smart move? Look at what happened with Pascal II after he got Kovalev extra angry. That was a brutal beating. Kovalev seems to thrive off of anger.

But Pascal could not frustrate Kovalev in the ring like Ward can. That's the difference.

[HAY-B]

I think that actually may help Kovalev. I personally thought he was overthinking things in there when Ward started to initiate all the clinching.

To me Kovalev was getting frustrated as the fight went on because he was unable to land flush shots on Ward. That's why, IMO when Ward would attempt to go inside, Kovalev would tie him up and force him back to the ropes. These things play into Ward's advantage because it zaps Kovalev's energy faster. You burn more energy when you're angry than when you're calm.

[*El Prieto*]

This was a close fight but you'll definitely see a different game plan from both fighters in the rematch. It's safe to say that Kovalev will avoid an inside fight at all costs.

[HAY-B]

Why are they trying so hard though? This, bringing up Kovalev's father dying, all that other ****. It's like they think they need Kovalev to fight like a crazy person in order to win. Meanwhile Team Kovalev just chills like "we know we're better, we don't need to **** with Ward's head that much because we'll win anyway."

Call it what you want but it's interesting. It tends to show you which is the weaker side, that feels they need to get in the other side's head in order to have a chance. Very interesting after Ward supposedly "won" the fight. Shows you what they really believe about the outcome.

I won't go as far at to say it shows what Ward's team believes or feels about the fight but if you sense a weakness in your opponent, you're suppose to exploit it IMO. I would prefer a fighter exploit his opponents physical weakness or an in fight mental weakness instead of out of the ring/ nothing to do with boxing matters. But to me, in order to show a wider more convincing margin of victory sometimes you have to do whatever is necessary no matter how distasteful it may be. Hell, look at FMJ vs ODLH. You can't tell me that FMJ did not get under ODHL's skin in the lead up to that fight. I think Hunter feels that Kovalev is extremely bothered by the outcome of the fight and thinks he can get deeper into Kovalev's head as well as JDJ's with his statements. If you've noticed, his statements have gotten more ridiculous each day post fight. Expect him to be on some Able Sanchez siht by the time they announce the rematch.

[ruedboy]

Bird Be Tweeting

No way Andre doesn't stop Sergey if its an inside fight.
Ward just gets him in a headlock and chokes him out.
Meanwhile the Byrd is giving it a good look, just making sure everything is legit. LOL

[Mr. Objectivity]

hunter is irritating as Fvvvvvck

[Sid-Knee]

Did Hunter say all Kovalev wanted to do was hold and grab???? Yeah he did. Hunter and Ward are the two biggest weirdos I've ever seen. Creepy as ****. Ward was the one doing all the holding like he always does.

And how the hell can Ward knock Kov out on the inside when he's constantly holding and wrestling?? He isn't able to get anything into his punches other than slaps. Delusional at it's finest.

[Sid-Knee]

they are losing their minds

Losing?? Ward and Hunter lost their mind a very long time ago. They have both always been extremely delusional. Creepy people is all they are.

[Sid-Knee]

"Before everyone loses their minds" is exactly what someone should have told Ward and Virgil before speaking. They sound delusional. FYI Ward doesn't fight inside, he grabs and fouls. If he wasn't an American gold medalist, the REF would disqualify him by round 6 fighting that way, and then who would be the one who got "stopped" from inside "fighting"?

These guys are liars, cheaters, and hypocrites, calling other fighters who fought Kovalev "cowards" (wtf?) even though they're the only ones who needed over a year of special planning to get in the ring with him, and pretending they won when they got dominated. I have no interest in anymore Andre Ward fights. He didn't show me anything. Outboxed all night, scared to exchange, the only rounds he could win were from fouling because he had a biased referee, and he still lost. Overrated fighter. Floyd is a master boxer from the outside... Ward showed his actual boxing is very overrated. All he can do is use his advantage that refs will let him fight an MMA fight while only allowing his opponents to fight by boxing rules. Ward's only advantages come from outside the ring, from politics, from corruption. Take away his fouling and instead of losing 8-4 like he did, he either gets knocked out or loses almost every round.

It's not my problem though. It's their sport. The Nevada Commission, the refs. It's their sport to guard. Not mine. I can't do nothing about it. So if they want to run the sport even further into the ground, that's on them.

Perfect post. Thumbs up.