Al Bernstein: Terrific fight but Kovalev clearly won.

[Fidel456]

Al Bernstein may be the best and most unbiased boxing analyst/commentator in the game.

He's a nice guy but he don't know ****. His keys to victory are things like, 1. Keep ur hands up 2. Use your left 3. Bring extra water. Not in that order

[A.K]

He's a nice guy but he don't know ****. His keys to victory are things like, 1. Keep ur hands up 2. Use your left 3. Bring extra water. Not in that order

Bring extra water he still knows more than farhood and the other guy

[Teetotaler]

Its pretty obvious Al is a bias biggot. Everyone knows that ward dominated that fight. Anybody who disagrees is just a racist.

[Zaryu]

I like Al, but I don't fully agree with him here. I had Kovalev winning because of the knock down, having said that, this was a very close fight. I think controversial is the appropriate label for the fight.

Also, I'm glad the rematch is happening. If Kovalev was truly just overtrained, he will wreck Ward by the 10th this time, however, I don't think that's the main reason he lost, and I think Ward will get away with another close decision.

[NUCLEAR]

Now low iq flohoes will call al bernstein is racist trying to keep a brutha down.

[soul_survivor]

Al Bernstein may be the best and most unbiased boxing analyst/commentator in the game.

I literally said the exact same thing. All those hood **** saying "its close, not a robbery" dont understand the scoring involved, or if they do, are outright lying. Plus, how do you label a fight close if one guy wins 7 of 8 rounds? lol They shoot themselves in the foot with their own logic.

[Bjl12]

I like Al but don't think he's correct here. The fight could've gone either way. Great fight and I expect the rematch to be extremely similar and potentially more violent

[soul_survivor]

I like Al, but I don't fully agree with him here. I had Kovalev winning because of the knock down, having said that, this was a very close fight. I think controversial is the appropriate label for the fight.

Also, I'm glad the rematch is happening. If Kovalev was truly just overtrained, he will wreck Ward by the 10th this time, however, I don't think that's the main reason he lost, and I think Ward will get away with another close decision.

But you can't label it a close fight if Ward gets given almost all but one of the last 7-8 rounds. Thats not close. Which is what Berny is tryin to say.

[Zaryu]

But you can't label it a close fight if Ward gets given almost all but one of the last 7-8 rounds. Thats not close. Which is what Berny is tryin to say.

Why not? It's a 12 round fight and a lot of the rounds themselves were close.

[Chrismart]

Bernstein is one of the best out there IMO.
The 114-113 to Kovalev score he mentioned was the one i had.

I agree with his point about 2 of the judges only scoring 1 round of the last 8 for Kovalev. And even one of those rounds was round 12. A round that didn't effect the end result on that particular scorecard.