Comments Thread For: Kovalev Says Ward Too Difficult To Beat With Officials on His SIde

[aboutfkntime]

Kovalev Says Ward Too Difficult To Beat With Officials on His SIde

I agree with the bold

the rest is bullshht.....

Kovalev appeared to have moved past those childish excuses

I doubt that he will fix his problems

[Mukuro]

aside low blow, i think kovalev skill is 1 dimensional
ward would beat him 1 way or another

Maybe he got his number. He WAS having a big round and maybe Kovalev was on his way out cleanly. Maybe. He didn't go out cleanly, though.

I like Ward and he's a great fighter without question, but I will never look back on his fights with Kovalev and pretend that he beat him cleanly in the ring without the apparent help of the officials.

[Tarl of Bristol]

Part of it is from Sergey but I think a big part of it is from the clowns on his team that feed him this nonsense to say.

Read between the lines and the language barrier and its clear Sergey know Andre was the better fighter in the 2nd fight. The guy needs to get new people all the way around and needs to question the manager and promoter just like Virgil Hunter said that he should.

Sergey took a terrible beating to the body but he gave a good accounting of himself; this was a better fight than the first one.

I hope Sergey takes Virgil Hunter up on his offer to train him because he needs someone thats not gonna coddle him and be a "yes" man as well as a trainer that cares about his boxers as is obvious with Virgil Hunter.

[BendOver]

that's pathetic...if he destroyed Kovalev's chin why he didn't even drop him...why he couldn't land anything to his head afterwards? Hopkins in the 12-th round buckled Kovalev's legs too and what?

because he put his head between his legs. The only part he could hit was the back of the head or the body

[ArturoBalboa]

Ward may have Jay Z and Beyoncé but kovalev has Timberlake, Cry me a river

[Metho_4u]

S.O.R. - Son of Referee!

And you are an S.O.B., but no one minds

[Metho_4u]

Not a chance. Apart from Gennady being a better fighter (than Sergey), he is entering this fight with a trainer, a proper team around him and a healthy purse.

Golovkin is going to lose.

[vaynardevil]

aside low blow, i think kovalev skill is 1 dimensional
ward would beat him 1 way or another

[SweetPbfAli]

Good post. I noticed during the fight that Kovalev's corner wasn't using ice or the endswell between rounds. Maybe Kovalev doesn't like either one but I don't think I've seen that before.
Also I saw a video where a guy from Ward's team was in Kovalev's dressing room checking wraps and he said one of Sergey's gloves didn't fit and they had to wait for a 2nd pair, so it turned out Kovalev had 5 minutes to warm up with his gloves on. Amateur hour!

Stitch Duran. He also heard Kovalev say to Weeks that when Ward smothered his attack in the first fight and his shoulder would hit his body, it hurt him. Duran couldn't believe he said that and went and told Virgil and Ward. I also think that's why Weeks didn't save Kovalev, he felt he was trying to plant a seed to avoid body shots well before the fight.

[SweetPbfAli]

I picked Hopkins to beat Kovalev because Agnew kinda exposed Sergey as being a lil bit mentally weak. Kovalev didn't respond well to the rough stuff and being cut. He did a lot of crying and complaining. I picked Hopkins because I thought he could better what Agnew did. And because I underrated Kovalev's technical boxing skills. Kovalev is an elite fighter.

BUT, when you put him in the ring with a fellow elite fighter that will get in there and rough up Sergey, his mental weakness is fully exposed. Immediately after the first fight, I picked Kovalev to KO Ward in a rematch. I had Ward winning thr first fight. But, I thought he fought as well as he possibly could amd barely got by. Plus, Ward couldn't outbox Kovalev. I don't pay attention much to prefight buildup. But Kovalev's attitude during the buildup was very bizarre to be. He acted like a guy that was trying to convince himself he could beat Ward. His behavior was so weird, it made me change my pick. And right on cue, when Ward started hitting him with hard body shots, maybe one or two strayed a lil low. It broke Kovalev mentally. You could see it in the third/fourth round.

I think part of Kovalev's problem is that he's one of these guys that believes his own hype. I think Kovalev totally bought in thr the whole fake ass Ivan Drago, "I must break you" nonsense. I think he totally bought in to being this killer that folks are risking life and limb by entering the ring with him. And in Ward, he found a guy that he couldn't intimidate. And he couldn't out-fight. That's the unique thing about the Ward-Kovalev rivalry. Ward is supposed to be the master boxer and Kovalev is supposed to be the hardpunching wrecking machine. But Kovalev outboxed Ward a lot of the time. And it was Ward who was our fighting Kovalev and breaking him down with hard body shots throughout the fight.

Kovalev is mentally weak. He's also very fragile. Ward has pretty much mentally ****d him.And I'm not sure this guy is gonna be able to pull himself together minus his mystique

Damn! Spot on post! Thanks for being rational.