Enough Kovalev-whining

[mathed]

Only whining is coming from Ward whining about retiring if he doesn't get respect, LMAO.

[Sledgeweather17]

First time I watched it I thought neither of them deserved the victory. I thought it should have been ruled a draw and Kovalev should have kept his belts.

But I watched the fight a second time and I saw Kovalev get completely outboxed even from the first round. The only thing Kovalev did was land that KD and a good power punch every once in a while. Otherwise Ward was consistently scoring points with that stiff jab to the body (ala Mayweather vs Corrales), those stiff jabs and short left hooks to the head that staggared and imbalanced Kovalev, those right crosses to the left rib cage, those left uppercuts to the right rib cage. All that work payed off massively. Ward was patient and deliberate in his approach. Kovalev landed some good shots but for me too much time went between those punches while ward was consistently scoring.

Later in the fight Ward started adding counter straight rights and lead right crosses, and he was landing the uppercut from the southpaw stance on the inside. Kovalev couldn't clinch him properly anymore coz he was drained (them body shots) and was tired from all the wrestling, and Ward was also twisting into the Southpaw stance on the inside, confusing Kovalev and making it hard for him to to neither clinch nor land, while making it easy for ward to land em left uppercuts and crosses (to the body and the head).

In the second fight Kovalev must not allow Ward to consistently land that lead jab to the core torso). Unfortunately Ward will be trying to get on the inside again so he either has to wrestle/clinch or find a way to learn to fight on the inside in one training camp.

Ward must stop the showbowting (bolo) and must not be too relaxed when Kovalev is stalking.. He was gun shy with the counter right hand at the start because Kovalev knocked him down while trying to counter, but he did it well in the second half of the fight and I think he should do it from the start in the second fight, credit to Kovalev for capitalising and discouraging Ward at the start, coz if he hadn't he might have been eating those counters all night.

Kovalev also needs to get an uppercut asap. Ward was ducking low while tryna go inside and he stayed low when he was landing em stiffy jabs to the body. He needs to find a way to discourage Ward from doing that, and I think the uppercut is the right weapon.

[siablo14]

They're both 33, but Ward was past it, and Kovalev was in his prime



Ward was supposed to take Kovalev to school. You're supposed to win wide on the scorecards when you give a boxing lesson to someone, not win by 1 point



He does. Let him hate

Okay but Ward won though.

[siablo14]

Ward was favorite to win you idiot. Everybody expects either a KO from Kovalev or a boxing lesson from Ward, but instead it was turned around and Kovalev gave Ward a boxing lesson on how to out box long range.

It was 50/50 for most people. Remember it was being sold as a 50/50 fight.

[vaynardevil]

nah, tbh i don't really care
we just need rematch ASAP !!!

[Hatesrats]

I already forgot about Kovalev... Threads dried up real quick

[Mequetrefe]

We need to see a rematch doe. You were given the opportunity to win the titles and it was a close fight, why not run it back a second time? All this posturing and saying this and that, he can talk after the fight is signed but dont be holding the bout from happening because of pride and arrogance. We deserve better. #****ward.

[Jewish-Reptile]

Seriously, it's making me sick now. Kovalev was supposed to KO Ward, destroy the shot black fighter and establish some sense of white dominance in boxing. All he managed to do, though, was to score a flash knockdown.

Seriously, Ward figured Kovalev out and was outboxing for the rest of the fight. He even hurt Kovalev to the point that Kovalev stuck his head out of the ropes to make the referee stop Ward (and don't make some **** up about Kovalev just letting Ward hit him and that he didn't hurt him, lol, like the guys who say Golovkin didn't get hurt when a Brook uppercut gave him jellylegs).

Some saw it differently and for the sake of argument, then let's agree that a case could be made for Kovalev... If Ward had just barely beat Kovalev, while Kovalev got a controversial decision, then no one would defend Ward or whine about him losing. It is extremely obvious.

Ward won that fight. And he knows Kovalev better now. He has him figured out better than last time and if a knockout happens in the rematch, then it's Kovalev who gets knocked out. He will never get close to scoring a knockdown against Ward again and you all know it. Kovalev has never been much of a technician and he can't adept to Ward's skill level.

Will the Kovalev fanboys please just stop whining? And please, please don't start claiming "1-1!" when Ward wins the rematch. If he has to beat Kovalev 3 times, then you're not doing Kovalev any favours at all...

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[Jubei]

A bunch of racist biased scum saying Ward won doesnt make him the winner for the real fans.

[g27region]

Okay but Ward won though.

I know he won, so why you're telling me this? Or your ******ed ass thought I'm trying to deny that fact?

We need to see a rematch doe. You were given the opportunity to win the titles and it was a close fight, why not run it back a second time? All this posturing and saying this and that, he can talk after the fight is signed but dont be holding the bout from happening because of pride and arrogance. We deserve better. #****ward.

There's no point in rematch, it will be the same fight and same result but with no KD. Second, why Ward needs a rematch if he got W already?