Comments Thread For: Hopkins: Kovalev Coming With Some Vengeance in Ward Rematch

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Last week it was announced that the Andre Ward-Sergey Kovalev rematch was official. The fight will once again be distributed by HBO pay-per-view and take place in Las Vegas, this time at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on June 17th. The first time around last November, Ward recovered from a second round knockdown to secure a narrow points victory. All three scorecards read 114-113.
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[Nightfall]

Andre Ward is a very smart fighter. He proved that when he got up off the canvas.kovalev is who he is. Ward be U.D. In the rematch

[licketysplityu]

Ward will be kissing canvas by the 3rd round...

[jackblack008]

Ward will never let a white man beat him..

[bluemax]

Kovalev won the first fight and got robbed. The handwriting is on the wall. The boxing power brokers want Ward as champion and no matter how the fight goes Kovalev will need a knockout to win. Ward is a protected fighter, he's allowed to hold at will and will do it again in this fight while the referee will blindly look on. Any round that Ward is not knocked down in or completely pummeled he will win and at the end of 12 rounds Ward will win a decision no matter how bad a beating he takes. Most fans have short memories and while their will be outrage right after the fight a few months down the line he'll be on Ring magazines cover and still be P4P in their rankings. A good reason not to buy that rag.

[millcitymauler]

B-Hop has never liked Ward

[Yaroslavkostrov]

I agree, this time Kovalev is very angry. Like with sillakh and pascal 2.

[nycsmooth]

Hope you're seeing all those good things about Ward which is why he never fought him he thought Joe Smith Jr would be far easier.. I'm still going with Ward UD...

[Bda31175]

Kovalev won the first fight and got robbed. The handwriting is on the wall. The boxing power brokers want Ward as champion and no matter how the fight goes Kovalev will need a knockout to win. Ward is a protected fighter, he's allowed to hold at will and will do it again in this fight while the referee will blindly look on. Any round that Ward is not knocked down in or completely pummeled he will win and at the end of 12 rounds Ward will win a decision no matter how bad a beating he takes. Most fans have short memories and while their will be outrage right after the fight a few months down the line he'll be on Ring magazines cover and still be P4P in their rankings. A good reason not to buy that rag.

Maybe, but boxing's power brokers also love a rubber match. If Ward, and I won't deny holding may be a part of it, doesn't absolutely solve Kovalev in the rematch there will be more than enough incentive for a close decision to go the other way.

[khizon]

I'm not sure the results is going to be different. Ward figured him out the second half of the fight. What's he gonna do differently? He should have gotten a new trainer to teach him new things. This rematch will set his career back.