Comments Thread For: Ward: To Talk Low Blows, Must Mention Kovalev's Rabbit Punches

[daggum]

You absolutely do care. You've been posting non stop about the fight since it was signed. You've literally posted paragraphs in every post fight thread. You're turning into spoon. You are HURT that Kovalev got stopped and seem to think spewing the same talking points over and over again will change reality.
News Flash..... It won't! Ward is better than Kovalev, point blank period

yes i care about the rules being followed and seeing a fair fight. if ward had won legit good job. but he didnt. you clearly do not care and thats why you are on here bragging about a foul fest win for ward. you dont care about changing boxing that is clear because the guys you like currently benefit from this corrupt system. the clinchers and cheaters have the advantage unfortunately. you can check my posts before this fight. i said this exact same thing would happen. ward would foul it up and win controversially. we have all been conditioned to accept this way of fighting unfortunately. my complaints wont do anything. its already been set in stone.

[FLY TY]

He's wasn't in danger.

You people.....

[Ake-Dawg]

That he threw fouls.

I think as a fighter Ward was honorable enough to acknowledge that punches don't always land where you intend. That's a reality across the sport. Fouling happens in every bout. Consider the rabbit punches Kovalev through. There is no expectation that those punches result in point deductions or rest for Ward.

[daggum]

I think you and others sensationalized the idea that Ward fouls more than other fighters. So when he fights and defeats fighters you like, it's a convenient and emotional response to the fight. What's funny is that boxing saw a man put into a coma due to rabbit punching, yet no one complained about the ref allowing Kovalev to rabbit punch Ward. Seems to me that fouling is ok as long as your fighter wins.

yes he does.you and others pretend he doesnt because you like to see him win. ok cool but you arent right. once again more false equivalencies pretending that all fighters foul the same? really?



you are trying to create false eqivalencies again. no he shouldnt rabbit punch. the reason he does that is because ward is clinching him. take away the clinching and they dnot happen.

[daggum]

The video shows that only the last one is in question. Other than the 2nd round, when did these numerous low blows occur. I saw Kovalev reacting to legal blows as if they were low and the ref telling him they weren't low.

no they werent legal. thats the whole problem. the ref said the bottom of the belt was low and then ward kept hitting him there. just because the ref ignored his own rules doesnt mean we should. thats kind of the whole problem. boxing fans pretend like the refs/judges are on the up and up. if he was on the up and up he would have followed his own rules but he overlooked wards cheating which helped him win.

[daggum]

The ref needs to be neutral. In this instance you have an outboxer and a fighter who wants to fight inside and work the body. You have to ref the fight in a way that doesn't take away a fighters advantage.

When Ward tries to get inside, Kovalev did his share of headlocks and clinches as well. He did his share of rabbit punching in the clinch. And he also complained about legitimate body shots. I would prefer no calls on both ends than a ref intervening way too much.

Kovalev was clearly affected by Ward's body attack and was complaining about legitimate body shots in hopes of getting a warning to discourage Ward from going to the body. When you do that too often, the ref will not take your complaints serious and when actual low blows occur, he will still think you are crying wolf.

you have a boxer and a clincher. you have to ref the fight according to the rules. just because one fighter lieks to cheat doesnt mean you should let him do it because it would take away his advantage wtf is that!

wrong. the ref drew a line in the middle of kovs belt and said anything below is low. ward kept hitting him below that line. kovalev had every right to complain. the ref was letting ward get away with illegal shots accordign to his own rules.

[Ake-Dawg]

The ref has a duty to deal with the rabbit punches. He is a ****e ref. I agree. The reason people are harping on about the low blows is that she stoppage came from one. And just like the ****e ref he is he called a ****e stoppage. Nobody wants to see anyone hurt. When I said how much punishment Groves dealt out unanswered in he's last fight some of the same people saying that this was a good stoppage were telling me that one was premature.

So if the final punch wasn't the reason the fight was stopped you wouldn't have as much of a problem with the stoppage?

[BucaRican]

Kovalev got caught with a nice ass right hand to the face that had Kovalev dazed and a then hit him with 3 nice as body shots. The guy was done. I will say it again Kovalev's career was saved.

[Ake-Dawg]

yes he does.you and others pretend he doesnt because you like to see him win. ok cool but you arent right. once again more false equivalencies pretending that all fighters foul the same? really?



you are trying to create false eqivalencies again. no he shouldnt rabbit punch. the reason he does that is because ward is clinching him. take away the clinching and they dnot happen.

It could be that we watch a lot of boxing and understand that ALL fighters oush the envelope when it comes to fouls and dont feel the need to put together youtube videos to prove that a fighter does foul. Its like football, you coukd call holding on every play.

[bluepete]

You people.....

What danger was he in then? Other than not being able to have any more kids?