Comments Thread For: Ward: Kovalev Making A lot of Excuses, Some of it is Laughable!

[mapleleaf27]

HAHAHAHA this diva is educating the masses on " business 101" that is hilarious...Sells 160k ppv and all of a sudden he is the professor of economics. Someone should remind him his promoter lost money on 11/19. Has papered every crowd at the Oracle arena cannot even "sell" 10k seats but SOG the professor knows all about business . This diva is so delusional, and what is so insulting he lies to whatever fans he has about being the underdog??? Every casino and sportsbook had this guy favored between -180 to -150 for the fight vs Kovalev so WTF is he talking about when he says everyone said he could not beat SK?? Ward must think so highly of his fans that he does not mind lying in interviews?? What a sore winner, the funniest video out there is his reaction when he was announced the winner in the ring. This guy should retire and let the real warriors fight in the ring. Ward can open a business school instead.

[Metho_4u]

I enjoy the reactions of people STILL in denial. You don't have to agree with the decision but it's OVER, it's DONE and Ward will forever be in the record books as having W over Kovalev...that's all there is to it.

Also, you all should know better than any typical fan (though many of you don't know jack ****) that this is ALL promotion...that's it, they are doing what they should've done prior to the first fight which is promotions to make more money for BOTH guys. This all just helps Kovalev as much as it does Ward, so why so much whining?

Ok, so your guy lost...time to look forward to the rematch. Your guy won? People want to see a if he can do it in more convincing fashion (though if Ward won every single Rd some of you would cry foul anyway)...time to move on people.

[turnedup]

Business 101: Don't sign a contract with a built-in rematch clause and then try to renegotiate.

[Davep1970]

Come on Man, just like the football guys say on ESPN. I was 7 rows back from the ring on the floor and even your own people, some sitting close to me, were stunned when they called your name. You did not come close to winning the first 5 rounds and I know you did not win all the others. You might have won 2 rounds in all. I brought my wife who knows absolutely nothing about boxing and I told her if Sergey does not knock this clown out he will not win. I said there are so many scams in boxing. Look what happened and she was stunned as well. Give me a break when all three judges score this fight 114-113 something is wrong. Not one other person can say they would have scored that fight for Ward. It was not even close and this is the problem with boxing.

[JASON SHAW]

Kkkovalev is just using the oscarina de la **** and manny excuse playbook..... Never stop making excuses for a loss because the dumb boxing fans are very gullible......

Bernard hopkins is also using the same playbook hahahah

[chaosisme]

Translation: Oakland or no rematch.

[HIGHNESS]

I'm a Ward fan, but the more he opens his mouth, the less of a fan I am becoming of his. I honestly thought he'd be the most humble man whether he wins or loses. He knows he didn't think he won based off his reaction after the announcement of the winner, lets be real.

[kidjalapeno]

Kathy duva was on podcast talkbox right after the fight said that its not only a rematch clause but a stipulation case either one was the winner how much money they would get for a rematch

[twosweethooks]

Wow Ward is 32 in his prime and talking like this ??!! What the hay !!!

We already KNOW his money comes from HIS promoter NOT Duva !

Ward has exposed the ***** in his armour !! He's got some chickenweather blood in his azz! He didn't come close in winning the fight the so-called judges Robbed Kovalev.

If Ward don't do this fight he goes down in the same azz catagory as JR :
There is a big crack in the Ballz!!!

[Boxing Logic]

I wish everybody would stop complaining like a bunch of schoolgirls. 114-113 is not a robbery, it was close. If the judges had come back with 116-112 or 117-111 for Ward, THAT would've been a robbery. This fight could've gone either way folks.

In my mind it's a robbery when the clear winner doesn't get the win. You can say it's 6-6 with the KD, 7-5, 8-4, or 9-3, whatever, but it was still a clear Kovalev win. You have to go out of your way to give Ward the win because with the knockdown, you have to give him 7 rounds in a fight where he only won 2 clear rounds, 7 and 8. So for Ward to win the judges had to give him all 5 close rounds, including round 10 which was clearly Kovalev but all three gave it to Ward because they HAD to give to him if they wanted the scorecards to work out to him winning the fight.

That is a robbery man. And how the one judge who had Ward up by two gave Kovalev the last round, while the other judges who had it tied gave it to Ward. That is point shaving. That is scoring to get to a desired outcome, not scoring fairly. If rounds 10, 11, and 12 had been the first three rounds of the fight, and the judges knew they could still score those rounds fairly but still give Ward the fight later, then Kovalev would have gotten between 1 and 3 of those rounds on each judges card. But because the rounds needed to go to Ward for him to win, they gave them to Ward! That is a ****ing robbery man. It was obvious from the first round when the ref bought time for Ward after he got staggered that the fix was in. It was obvious from when Max started his "well you never know, I'm not saying Ward won that round, but he could have. He's such a great fighter you know" that the fix was in for Ward to get the decision.

So was it close? Depends how you split the close rounds. It can be a close Kovalev win to a wider one depending on how you score the close rounds. But can you give it to Ward? Hellll no unless you go out of your way to, like the judges did. And that's a robbery.