Comments Thread For: Kovalev Explains Past Training Issues, Embraces Camp Changes

[Vlad_]

With as many excuses that he gave us since November, I don't think there are any left for after this fight. He said he was ok with the judges. If he loses, we should simply hear, Ward was the better man tonight. Nothing else.

What many excuses? The media kept asking the same f**king questions and posting the same statements over and over. Then the idiots here kept making new threads about it.

[turnedup]

With as many excuses that he gave us since November, I don't think there are any left for after this fight. He said he was ok with the judges. If he loses, we should simply hear, Ward was the better man tonight. Nothing else.

I'm calling bullshhh on this post, the two constants that have result from that fight are:

1. We know we won that fight
2. I overtrained

So what list of excuses? One of those statements is valid considering the sheer amount people who do think he won, and the sheer amount of people who think he looked like shh the last few rounds of the fight...both parties of which I belong to.

[Vlad_]

I'm calling bullshhh on this post, the two constants that have result from that fight are:

1. We know we won that fight
2. I overtrained

So what list of excuses? One of those statements is valid considering the sheer amount people who do think he won, and the sheer amount of people who think he looked like shh the last few rounds of the fight...both parties of which I belong to.

Don't pay attention to these Andre Ward d=ck riders. Kovalev said he overtrained in 20 different interviews, and the morons here all consider it to be a new excuse. Point in fact, this article is from an interview that is almost 2 weeks old... Boxingscene is ******ed that way.

[bigjavi973]

"I said to him bye bye"



well thats one way of firing someone

[RussB23]

Dominated??? Put the crack pipe down!

Look at the polls. About 70-80 percent think kovalev won by a good margin. He won like 8-4.

[bigjavi973]

He basically dominated wardy while gassed. Imagine what he will do in better shape.

The first fight wasn't fair You had Kovalev fighting against Ward, a blind referee and three blind or corrupt judges. Hopefully this next fight will be on the up and up

[RussB23]

I'm calling bullshhh on this post, the two constants that have result from that fight are:

1. We know we won that fight
2. I overtrained

So what list of excuses? One of those statements is valid considering the sheer amount people who do think he won, and the sheer amount of people who think he looked like shh the last few rounds of the fight...both parties of which I belong to.

He won the fight while not being in top condition. Impressive as hell.

[MDPopescu]

... when you are used to boxing but your opponent forces you into wrestling for 10 rounds, you still get tired -- it doesn't matter who your strength and conditioning coach is or what he does.

[Madison Boxing]

... when you are used to boxing but your opponent forces you into wrestling for 10 rounds, you still get tired -- it doesn't matter who your strength and conditioning coach is or what he does.

yeah thats why i hope kovalev did some wrestling training in his camp. Because the cardiovascular effort of wreslting is much different to that of throwing punches. He cant rely on the ref to stop it so its not going to happen. He should have worked with some world class wrestlers in camp in addition to normal sparring partners.

[SugarRaRobinson]

I don't buy the over trained excuse, I thought it was the body shots that slowed Kov down the second half of their fight

That and the vodka