What No One Is Saying About Saturday

[koolkc107]

we'll agree to disagree. it is pretty effective though and it gets the job done. i dont approve, but it is a fight and there's no nice guys when it comes to war.

True.

And all the best have that mean streak...

[jay543]

Ward noticed that Kovalev was whining about low blows.
Ward noticed Tony Weeks wasn't deducting points for low blows.

Ward took advantage and deliberately threw body punches without worrying if they were low or not because he knew they bothered Kovalev and he knew it was unlikely that he would be DQ'd.

None of those body shots were on accident, Andre Ward is a pretty smart fighter.

[gauze]

True.

And all the best have that mean streak...

cheers ese

[koolkc107]

Ward noticed that Kovalev was whining about low blows.
Ward noticed Tony Weeks wasn't deducting points for low blows.

Ward took advantage and deliberately threw body punches without worrying if they were low or not because he knew they bothered Kovalev and he knew it was unlikely that he would be DQ'd.

None of those body shots were on accident, Andre Ward is a pretty smart fighter.

The punches were on the beltline and the beltline is perfectly legal.

[Curt Henning]

you dont have to explain this to reasonable boxing fans...the only ones crying are the insecure EE fanboys.....real boxing fans saw what happened

that close up of kovalevs face while he was sitting on the ropes with weeks said it all

[Vlad_]

The punches were on the beltline and the beltline is perfectly legal.

From the Association of Boxing Comissions...

NAVEL

[uppercut510]

My initial reaction watching it was weeks is getting ready to step in to warn ward for low blows or take a point. I did think kovalev was beaten, but he was also reacting to low blows...whether intentional or not. The shots throughout the fight were borderline and a lot of kovalev's reaction had to do with his inability to take punches in that region...but in his mind he was reacting to low blows. It wasn't the first time in the fight either. He may have been looking for weeks to take a point or warn ward, who knows. What he should have done is hit ward back low when it happened early on to force the ref's hand to take action.

did u see weeks say that area was legal in the instructions? look in my sig... u saying those were low?

[uppercut510]

all these threads complaining about low blows we should make one about kovs mental weakness, turning back to opponent, faking to get the ref to react n get rest, giving up, these are all things that seem to follow any boxer who does it (zab Judah and more) but for some reason its overlooked with kov. the last punch was pretty low because kov was in an ILLEGAL position due to getting his azz whooped, but what about everything that led to him quitting like that. No boxing fan should support a fighter turning his back to avoid punishment. where are the complaints about these things??????? just like u all ignored kovs holding in the first fight I see ur up to the same BS.

[Real King Kong]

did u see weeks say that area was legal in the instructions? look in my sig... u saying those were low?

There were low shots in the fight, yes. Enough that weeks warned ward for it. Mostly they were borderline, with a few straying low but at the end it was blatantly low.

[koolkc107]

From the Association of Boxing Comissions...

NAVEL

Completely irrelevant since Weeks established what was legal and what wasn't in his prefight instruction.

That was the beltline...which is where Ward hit him...a lot.

And BTW, according to your definition, most of the body shots landed by either guy were illegal.