Kovalev seems desperate and angry.

[Scary]

It probably seems that way cuz he is constantly barraged with the same questions. It would get a little annoying after a while. I will say it appears the loss got under his skin tho...particularly cuz he truly believes it was an unjust decision. I think that attitude is detrimental to his focus for the rematch...he should look at it as a close fight and prepare accordingly. If he thinks he's gonna come in there and walk through ward, he's gonna be in a bad place if he can't.

Excactly this. The attitude is all wrong. I hope he wins, I really do, but I don't think he'll do it this time. But ofcourse he can.

[The Hammer]

You mean draining Dawson, pulling out of the Dirrell fight and rarely leaving (J)oakland?

All that too.

[Jewish-Reptile]

Il say one more thing, if Kovalev believes he can go into the fight not making any changes fighting the same way he did last out, he loses again, simple, by a larger margin too.

[SensFullViolenc]

Well,put yourself in his shoes. He went into the fight as the reigning champ,and despite that,made less than the challenger. During the fight,he managed to outbox the boxer (to many people's surprise),and the majority of the boxing world agrees that he had done enough to win the fight. Instead,what happened was that 3 judges gave ward the fight by literally 1 point,and took kovalevs undeafeted record,along with his titles. Now he has to sit and hear how "ward figured him out" "and ward dominated the second half of the fight" which isn't true at all. Scared? No. Pissed off,and ready to show who the real champ is? Hells yes.

I thought Kova got 60-40 in the fight, and Ward is getting 60-40 for the rematch.

Which would still be reason to be pissed. Seeing as Kova really did win, he should get the 60-40 split again.

[Scary]

All that too.

Tell me more fine sir, I'd like to collect more knowledge on this area.

[uppercut510]

kov lost guys, get over it, move on

[therealpugilist]

He is definitely letting Ward get to him. He seems confused, angry and not cool. Excuses all over the place, the judges, overtraining and angry in round 5. I gotta say, I hope he wins, but Ward seems lightyears ahead mentally right now.

a bunch of excuses, and fake bravado


kovalev isnt used to dealing with someone he cant mentally or physically bully.

not one time did he or his team mention what he can do to improve on his performance, nor has the media or his fans been asking this of him


come June he is going to lose....mark my words and it will be of the 8 rounds to 4 type loss

Ward is coming for the inside off the first bell and kov has no way besides headlocking to prevent it

[daggum]

I thought Kova got 60-40 in the fight, and Ward is getting 60-40 for the rematch.

Which would still be reason to be pissed. Seeing as Kova really did win, he should get the 60-40 split again.

ward got 5 mill and kov got 2 mill. wards so easy to work with...

[The Hammer]

Tell me more fine sir, I'd like to collect more knowledge on this area.

[therealpugilist]

kov lost guys, get over it, move on

its amazing....people literally act like this was emmanuel augustus vs courtney burton....thats what you call a robbery

same idiots said Castillo was robbed too...even though when i made a thread where we all scored it together and no one had a winner by more than 2 points...thats no robbery

whatever eases the blow i guess lol