the real question is........why the hell did tony weeks stop the fight?

[Shaolin Sword]

low blow or not, why was his first instinct to stop the fight? what the hell?

if he thought they were LEGAL punches then start a 10 count ffs.

[thedarkness]

cos tony weeks is a terrible referee. always has been terrible.

[Rip Chudd]

I agree, horrible stoppage

[TheBigLug]

Yeah, that was the weird part for me. Why not give Kovalev a count?

The fact he jumped in at the first opportunity to stop it just proves the corruption involved.

[KingHippo]

**** stoppage. I'm fuming right now, and I'm a Ward fan.

[W1LL]

I think it's a real possibility this might be successfully appealed by Kovalev's people and made a No Contest/Decision.

[JACK1190]

Because he could see over the last few rounds that Kovalev wanted out.

[meme_man]

low blow or not, why was his first instinct to stop the fight? what the hell?

if he thought they were LEGAL punches then start a 10 count ffs.

The real question is why didn't he take a 8 count...

[kardsufur]

yeah there was a lot of **** ups there on weeks part. first **** up was to not see the numerous low blows. Then he stops the fight for no reason without any warning or count

[redmish]

The stoppage was definitely premature but ward had him. Kovalev was looking for a way out. He was trying to get ward penalised because he knew he was finished.