There's too much bad refereeing in boxing. There is fight after fight where people end up in ICU on a drip after rounds and rounds of punishment and then there's an equally criminally high number of fights where a fighter who isn't that badly hurt (YET) is pulled out against his will and to the dismay of the fans and pundits. These are people's careers and the reputation of the sport at stake here.
All I can say is thank god the fight was promoted so badly. If all the casuals had been watching that would have been rip boxing.
Look, I really accept ward had kovalev. I had kov ahead by 1 point at that time but for me it's clear that he was gonna get finished off at worst or out pointed in the latter rounds at best by ward once round 8 got going. But the fact is that fight was stopped prematurely even if u do buy that the punches were legit which I don't. He shud have been given an 8 count minimum then he probably wud have seen into round 9. after that he wud most likely have been beat in round 9 or 10 but he wud had had no complaints and ward wud have a fair victory. Now boxing a detractors have yet another piece of forensic evidence in the ongoing case against boxing a legitimacy as a sport
All I can say is thank god the fight was promoted so badly. If all the casuals had been watching that would have been rip boxing.
Look, I really accept ward had kovalev. I had kov ahead by 1 point at that time but for me it's clear that he was gonna get finished off at worst or out pointed in the latter rounds at best by ward once round 8 got going. But the fact is that fight was stopped prematurely even if u do buy that the punches were legit which I don't. He shud have been given an 8 count minimum then he probably wud have seen into round 9. after that he wud most likely have been beat in round 9 or 10 but he wud had had no complaints and ward wud have a fair victory. Now boxing a detractors have yet another piece of forensic evidence in the ongoing case against boxing a legitimacy as a sport
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