Kovalev Ward Fix is obvious when all judges gave Ward the 10th Round.

[Graz]

3 AMERICAN judges favored the American fighter on American territory. PRETTY obvious what happened. Specially when 98.7% of the press and fans scored it for Kovalev.

I think the fix was in for that fight and the Vegas venue sealed Kovalev's fate. Many figured it would go that way short of Kovalev knocking Ward out and that's exactly what happened. Watch the fight again and listen to Max Kellerman stroking Ward each and every time he even touched Kovalev. Max knew what was going down and he tried to preemptively soften the blow before the anticipated decision. Kovalev was completely unhurt and unaffected by Wards punches. Can't say that for Ward. He should thank his lucky stars the judges were in his corner. And believe me he knows it.

[Cutthroat]

kovalev won the 10th

neither guy was landing at will. they were both landing jabs kovalev jab was stiffer and he slipped and side step Andre to land his jab a couple of times. 1:36-1:20 you will see kovalev is more effective with his jab and ward is resetting trying to figure how to attack more effectively. 1:19 ward steps in to jab but kovalev pops with a jab then kovalev sides steps ward stick jab and pops him again with another jab. at 1:07 kovalev sides steps and rolls with a slapping left hook that makes more sound than damage but the ward crowd makes oohs over it. also at the 48 second mark kovalev landed a hard right hand and then ward gets credit for a left hook that didn't land.hbo crew again giving ward credit for punches that didn't land kovalev pushes Andre back with a jab that lands and maintains distance by throwing a combination. 40 secs both land a jab but kovalev jab is stiffer. 32 sec ward pushes and lands a body shot on an off balanced kovalev. 30 seconds kovalev lands a stiff jab that makes ward step back. 21 second ward does a bolo impression and eats a stiff jab at 16 mark ward eats another jab that pushes him to the rope. 15 sec wards ducks on the ropes and gets hit with a left hook to the side of the head.


kovalev had the better ring generalship, the effective aggressor, landed the harder shots in the 10th.

1:36, Ward-Kov trade jabs
1:33, Kov jab, rest are misses
1:25, Ward jab to the body, Kov looks like he tried to throw a jab but misses
1:20 Kov jab
1:13, Kov jab, not clean at all, Ward is backing up, misses follow up jab
1:07, Kov's left hook made a sound because it hit Ward's shoulder, miss, Ward hits Kov with a left hook.
:48 Kov's right clips Ward's head, although the rest misses, exactly like Ward's left that he responded with, if you're gonna count that you have to count Ward's
:45, Kov misses both jabs, again you give credit to where Kov misses, Ward is dodging these shots by mere centimeters, Kov also misses all his combos
:40 exchange of equal jabs, Kov's is stiffer? You're biased
:30 exchange of jabs again, equal again
:20, Now THAT is a quality jab by Kov
:16 partially blocked jab that hits the top of Ward's head which they show on the replay, Ward wasn't "pushed" he was backing up to take the power off them, he did this throughout the fight.
:15 Kov misses and hits Ward's neck/trap, really obvious when you slow it down

Ward won this round, Kov was missing. Ward making him miss by a few centimeters and voluntarily moving backwards to take off Kov's power or just make him missed had you all fooled into believing Kov was landing quality shots at will.

[moochi]

After rewatching the fight i gave round 2 to Ward. ... Because of reasons below:

He came back from a KD
He is American
He is the house fighter
He has "never" been beaten since he was 2 years old
He landed 3 jabs
The score sheet only had one box with one name on it to score for.

Ridiculous.