Can someone show me gifs or footage of wards vicious "Inside Work"?

[Curt Henning]

lol that **** is hillarious, extremely bias bruvva crediting ward for punches that dont even land.

"nice jab right der" **** doesnt even land, and the few shots ward did land were love taps

Dat inside work doe son.

lol..nice stereotyping...u and headshots..all ward fans must be black right? even though im a mid 30s white male from new england who likes ward and has no problem with him getting that decision

yer a clown if you watch that video and come away with thinking ward ISNT doing anything in it...just becuase theres a black guy commentating on it you automatically dismiss it...you can clearly see ward doing effective work in that video

[sunny31]

Keep hearing about his masterful/vicious inside work and body shots. The way he and his fans talk about his body punches vs kovalev you would think he was prime tyson ripping liver shots or something.

Kov didnt even block the mini uppercut love taps because they had no effect and was gassed in the 5th before ward landed anything of note. Where is this "inside work" you guys speak of? Can i get some gifs or video?

Spence vs brook was some good inside work by spence to the body for example , i did not see anything resembling that.

I don't think anyone said 'masterful' body work or that he was devastating Kovalev downstairs. It was a workman like performance from Ward - in a situation where not much was working and he was down early. He had his smoothness taken away from him because Kovalev was extremely sharp from long range on the night and that coupled with the height and reach was not allowing him to stay at range too long, also the threat of Kovalev's power is too dangerous. That threat also limits your own attack because you don't want to take liberties and get caught.

For 99.9% of fighters the above scenario is too much, the odds are stacked too much against them. Ward is versatile enough to do something different, he has the mental strength, and the physical attributes to carry it out. What he did was basically turn it into a dog fight, he went inside which is extremely dangerous because he can get caught coming in which will actually add to the power of Kovalev's shots. But he did it anyway, he used his feet to get inside and from there it is conjecture who you think was at fault, to me Kovalev held as much if not more than Ward, Kovalev was trying to 'clamp' Ward down because he doesn't fight inside and Ward was often trying to jostle for position, but normally Kovalev would initiate the first clinch (not always) because he didn't want to be on the inside period.

Now I think two things gassed Kovalev. First it was the holding he himself did in the first half of the fight, which I think was apart of his strategy to 'clamp' Ward on the inside, which he was effective with. Whereas in the past Ward has been able to turn his opponent and push them around so he could work them on the ropes, he couldn't with Kovalev. The reason for this is that Kovalev is extremely strong, and second, a lot of people don't know this but Kovalev has a background in MMA and I think this helped him. The only problem with this is that he tired himself out. The second thing was the body shots and the one body shot Ward was able to have success with the whole fight was where Kovalev would throw combinations and fall in, whenever he fell in like that Ward would rip a body shot. They were not beautiful Mike McCallum type body shots, it was more constantly touching him there some were hard, some were not, but I think Kovalev was reacting to them and it was tipping the judges off.

This video is really good to see what is going on because it is devoid of commentary and has a great view.



I thought the fight was close - I think Kovalev dropped off and that is what made it close, but you have to give Ward credit for maintaining his form, and maintaining his level through the 12 rounds, and if anything he got a little better as the fight wore on. I personally scored it 114-113 for Kovalev, 6 rounds a piece.

I think you are missing the point of Ward as a fighter though, he is a good inside fighter, I don't need to justify that to you, if you can't see it you probably haven't watched much of his career. But my main point is that Ward is a great all round fighter and that is why he can pull himself out of a jam like he did in this fight. He can do so many different things that allows him to adapt to any style or any situation.

The other thing which most of you overlook is the fighter you are seeing now is not the same fighter he was in his physical prime. Ward has had a couple of terrible injuries - an ACL tear, which is one of the worst injuries you can get in all of sports, it can be a career ender in a lot of cases. But yet you never hear him talk about these things as excuses, even though it is obvious that his movement has been debilitated. It is amazing that he is even able to compete with one of the best p4p fighters in the world.

You have put some ****** highlight reel of Errol Spence beating up on a gatekeeper level fighter as some kind of insult which I don't get at all. Ward looked far superior at that kind of level when he was coming up, and looked better at higher levels than Spence has looked so far. You make yourself look foolish with this comparison because the levels are not relative at all. If you really think Ward isn't an effective inside fighter or body puncher I implore you to watch more of his career, the kid can do everything, or lets say COULD do everything, now he is more of a measured version as he has slowed down quite a bit physically.

[Chrismart]

You gotta find a video of an impartial party in order to get a point like yours across. This guy is clearly a Ward fanatic that actually praises him for elbowing Kovalev. Commentators like that are precisely the reason some Kovalev supporters are going so hard about it.

''Amazing elbow. I love inside fighting, i love boxing. Let's rewind that and watch it again. Amazinggg..amazing elbow.''

[Vegemil]

''Amazing elbow. I love inside fighting, i love boxing. Let's rewind that and watch it again. Amazinggg..amazing elbow.''

He's actually hurting Ward more by making a video like that I don't know why they do it.

[Vegemil]

lol..nice stereotyping...u and headshots..all ward fans must be black right? even though im a mid 30s white male from new england who likes ward and has no problem with him getting that decision

yer a clown if you watch that video and come away with thinking ward ISNT doing anything in it...just becuase theres a black guy commentating on it you automatically dismiss it...you can clearly see ward doing effective work in that video

Can you even call that stereotyping? That guy was clearly a fanatical Ward fan who fit the description to a T.

[travestyny]

That's really strange tragedy, my 2 iPads, my iPhone, 2 laptops and a desktop all say "vicious inside work" explain to me how yours is different

Tell me what is considered "vicious," since apparently you are so butthurt by this loss that you can feel what Kovalev felt.

[travestyny]

... Quote: "look at that elbow!... this is great inside fighting..."

Can you even call that stereotyping? That guy was clearly a fanatical Ward fan who fit the description to a T.

Dude, it's not about the commentating.


Do you see Ward ripping shots inside? I mean it's easy to see, regardless of what the commentator is saying. Why is there a focus on the commentator when you have eyes to see Ward doing a good job fighting on the inside, and Kovalev doing basically nothing on the inside but holding.

[Vegemil]

Dude, it's not about the commentating.


Do you see Ward ripping shots inside? I mean it's easy to see, regardless of what the commentator is saying. Why is there a focus on the commentator when you have eyes to see Ward doing a good job fighting on the inside, and Kovalev doing basically nothing on the inside but holding.

Yeah Ward had really good inside work. It's why I scored it 6-6. Didn't really think it was much of a robbery just a close fight. Could've gone to either fighter. But if you post a video you should expect people to see the bull**** that goes along with it.

[travestyny]

Yeah Ward had really good inside work. It's why I scored it 6-6. Didn't really think it was much of a robbery just a close fight. Could've gone to either fighter. But if you post a video you should expect people to see the bull**** that goes along with it.

I think your point is moot if from the video you can see examples of his good inside work. And you can see that from the video, right?

I didn't post the video because of the commentary. I posted the video to show his in-fighting. Period.

[Johnny Steele]

At his best , which definitley wasn't the Kovalev fight, he was the best inside fighter in boxing, he knew all the tricks of the trade

Are you new to boxing? Or are you just trying to be controversial and edgy?

he always managed to put u in position where he can land his best shots without getting hit back, head and body control at their finest.

How disingenuous. Clinching and headbutting isn't "control at it's finest." It's called cheating.