How does HBO not make a Ward vs Kovalev Highlights vid?

[Real King Kong]

How did you score the fight?

115-112 kovalev...close but clear.

[_Maxi]

One of my majors in college was statistics, I understand it plenty.

What you don't seem to understand is that from time to time there are going to be fights where more than half of the people at ringside see it one way and the judges see it the other. That's bound to happen occasionally in fights with many swing rounds, like this one.

Swing rounds (last 8) in which they saw Kovalev win only 1 round. I can understand even a 70/30% distribution in swing rounds but something like 12.5% versus 87.5% doesn't SOUND right. But it's ok, whatever.

[JAB5239]

Only 20/25% of the press had Ward winning. You would expect a 50/50 distribución in people's opinion if it really was a close fight. But 100% of the judges had Ward winning, so you would expect 60% of the people to have Ward winning. Go learn some statistics basics and come back.

Would we take a boxing judge trying to be a news reporter seriously? Maybe one or two, but certainly not the majority, right? So why are we taking the majority of news reporters trying to be boxing judges seriously? There was no robbery, there was no one paid off. It was a very close fight and that's that. If bet 99% of the posters have never Sat ringside at a big time boxing event, but everybody feels they can score a fight. Let me let you kids in on a little secret. Watching a fight from ringside is different from watching it a few rows back and certainly different from watching it on tv. So again, repeat after me....IT WAS A CLOSE FIGHT!

[Scipio2009]

Just wondering how this works, that's all

HBO no longer has any rights to Andre Ward, while still having rights on Sergey Kovalev.

Why would HBO spend their limited boxing budget, producing a highlights package, highlighting a fighter who's of no obligation to them?

That'd be about as silly as HBO putting together a 60 minute epilogue to show their audience how badly Floyd Mayweather beat HBO's Manny Pacquiao.

[_Maxi]

Would we take a boxing judge trying to be a news reporter seriously? Maybe one or two, but certainly not the majority, right? So why are we taking the majority of news reporters trying to be boxing judges seriously? There was no robbery, there was no one paid off. It was a very close fight and that's that. If bet 99% of the posters have never Sat ringside at a big time boxing event, but everybody feels they can score a fight. Let me let you kids in on a little secret. Watching a fight from ringside is different from watching it a few rows back and certainly different from watching it on tv. So again, repeat after me....IT WAS A CLOSE FIGHT!

So now boxing analysts including many with more than 30 years of experience in the field are considered "news reporters" by you? I don't agree.

[JAB5239]

So now boxing analysts including many with more than 30 years of experience in the field are considered "news reporters" by you? I don't agree.

I'm sorry, did you not say 70% of the press and fans? Where exactly did you pull that number from by the way? And as already stated, a fight looks much different ringside than it does a few rows back or on tv.

[_Maxi]

I'm sorry, did you not say 70% of the press and fans? Where exactly did you pull that number from by the way? And as already stated, a fight looks much different ringside than it does a few rows back or on tv.

73% of the boxing analysts had Kovalev winning http://talkingboxing.co.uk/we-go-to-...kovalev-v-ward

Very similar numbers between fans in forums, almost 6 thousands voted here: 71% Kovalev.



On Boxingscene with 500 people voting, 71.6% saw Kovalev win

http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=728926

I could quote the numerous Ward fans that wrote here that Kovalev was the real winner. Just search the fight thread and you'll read many.

The numbers are pretty consistent. And considering that a draw would have made Kovalev retain his titles, then 80% of the people and boxing analysts think that Kovalev should be the champion.

And these were the same judges that had on the undercard this result:

On the undercard, Darleys Perez was robbed of victory as his bout with Maurice Hooker for the WBO NABO super lightweight title was scored a draw. The scorecard of Robert Hoyle 97-93 is highly su****ious especially when only last week he had Jamie McDonnell retaining his WBA world bantamweight title with a very wide 117-111 score.

[TheCell8]

HBO no longer has any rights to Andre Ward, while still having rights on Sergey Kovalev.

Why would HBO spend their limited boxing budget, producing a highlights package, highlighting a fighter who's of no obligation to them?

That'd be about as silly as HBO putting together a 60 minute epilogue to show their audience how badly Floyd Mayweather beat HBO's Manny Pacquiao.

They also have no highlights of Canelo vs. Liam Smith or Crawford vs. Postol or Pacquiao vs. Vargas or Golovkin vs. Lemieux.

What do all those fights have in common?

They were on PPV. HBO doesn't show highlights of their PPV fights. They sometimes will release the full fight months later, but they generally don't show highlights of them.

It has nothing to do with which fighter is under contract or 'favoritism', it's just how they operate.