Sergey kovalev life saved by referee? | fight on the verge of tragedy

[BattlingNelson]

Kovalev was bending down and badly hurt, when you are bent down like that you are prone to being hit lower then intended, and if someone is that badly hurt to begin the fight should be stopped.

He got hurt earlier in the round by 2 punches that hit him right on his belly button and he bent down forward as if someone from the 3rd row blasted him with a *******. Then he tried to play it off as low blows to tony weeks. Those shots BADLY hurt him. It was because of this that Ward was able to land that big right hand and then 2 more CLEAR body shots and by then Kovalev was pretty much out on his feet. When they got to the ropes observe Kovalev's body language, that was a disastrous knock out waiting to happen. He was bent down forward and that's why the shots strayed as far down as they did, because he was pretty much done. It was a good stoppage.

Help me out here. Are you saying that those final punches where not fouls?

[SonnyboyReturns]

It is now confirmed that the last punch is a legit body shot. Weeks steps in and puts the racist out of his misery.



Sergey Kovalev- "On the border"

[iamboxing]

Rubbish. Stoppage was ******, no matter how hard you try to spin this. The only reason we're still talking about the stoppage today is because it was shady.

[SonnyboyReturns]

Rubbish. Stoppage was ******, no matter how hard you try to spin this. The only reason we're still talking about the stoppage today is because it was shady.

[iamboxing]

Not bothered in the slightest. Keep calling people who state facts salty and snowflakes, ignorant brainwashed idiots.

[SonnyboyReturns]

[Dosumpthin]

It is now confirmed that the last punch is a legit body shot. Weeks steps in and puts the racist out of his misery.



Sergey Kovalev- "On the border"

This is has now ended the debate.

Great work

[SonnyboyReturns]

This is has now ended the debate.

Great work

You're welcome. All credit goes to Mirko Troll Cop.

https://www.boxingscene.com/forums/s...d.php?t=750117

[Mr Objecitivity]

I don't understand why some of those Andre Ward FANATICS are so concerned about Sergey Kovalev's health all of a sudden. Some of those FANATICS were even claiming that this racist Russian Kovalev is better off dead or he should be rid from boxing. However, all of a sudden, some of the Andre Ward FANATICS are NOW claiming it's somehow the right decision for Sergey Kovalev to be protected from further potential damage / harm. It's seems as if those Ward FANATICS are not too confident in Andre Ward's ability to truly KO an opponent. As such, they are content in having a premature stoppage and then pretending that it was a uncontroversial stoppage because they aren't confident in Andre Ward's chances of scoring a proper CLEAN KNOCKOUT. Hence, they didn't want the fight to continue because they weren't confident in Andre Ward's chances of potentially producing a CLEAN KNOCKOUT on an opponent when any other knockout artist would've done so convincingly.

Anyway, it's pure speculation for anybody to claim that somehow Sergey Kovalev would've died had the fight continued or anything along those lines. These are not facts! If I were to claim Sergey Kovalev would've made a comeback and won the fight by knockout or decision had the fight continued, it'd hold just as much value / worth as those that are claiming Kovalev would've died had the fight continued. In other words, neither claims are facts and both are just personal opinions.

Personally, the fight should've continued. If Sergey Kovalev were to truly die after the fight by someone who is a feather fist with a 50% knockout record and someone who he himself claims has no punching power, whilst also taking into consideration that he himself killed another opponent named Roman Simakov, then he probably deserves to die. He'd probably think to himself that if he were to get killed by Andre Ward, then he doesn't deserve to live. His family, wife and kids probably deserve a better man as a father and husband.

If I were to box against an average female and were to be in a position of getting killed by her legal punches, then I'd probably rather die than quit and then live. What would I have anything to live for after the embarrassment / shame? Not just what I exposed to others, but also the feeling of it myself that I would have to live with forever. Perhaps Kovalev felt the same way, that he'd rather die than live and feel the embarrassment of 'NEARLY' getting killed by Andre Ward in a boxing bout.

Truth is, Sergey Kovalev's damage in the final round didn't occur just from legal body punches (Ward did land plenty of them), but also with a combination of illegal low blows. Andre Ward landed enough low blows for it badly damage Kovalev, to the point where he was about to be stopped. Without those low blows, Kovalev may have still been damaged but not to the point where he was going to be stopped.

Considering illegal low blows did cause Kovalev to be stopped as much as legal body punches did, the referee should've allowed Kovalev time to recover from those low blows instead of letting the bout continue and then stopping the bout.

So if Kovalev were to die from legal punches from Ward had the fight continued, then it should've just happened (which was extremely unlikely to happen anyway). However, if the death occurred from illegal punches such as low blows, then that's unacceptable. Instead, the referee should allow Kovalev time to recover whilst warning / penalizing Ward at the first moment of Kovalev showing any physical discomfort from those illegal low blows.

[champion4ever]

That's what I've been saying all along. Had he died of cardiac arrest in the ring, then his fans would have felt very sad for him. The man wasn't even fighting back or protecting himself for crying out loud.

The best thing for him to do was to just sit there on those ropes because it probably saved him from a lifetime of serious health and medical complications like: Subdural hematoma or CTE from repeatedly blows and trauma to the head.