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

[hitking]

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

[festinalente]

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?

[p4ptbe]

They'd rather root for a foreigner than a US Brother.

One jackass even said low-blows are worse than rabbit punches

Tell that to the families of Gerald McClellan and Pritchet Colon.

these people only pretend to care about the well being of fighters! but if their favorite fighter is landing punches behind someones head all night its all good... its shameful....if a guy like mayweather or ward was in a coma because of rabbit punches these scumbags would not give two flying ***s... but if it happened to a scumbag like kovalev all hell would break loose.... tony weeks needs to be banned for aloowing all those rabbit punches

[Kigali]

these people only pretend to care about the well being of fighters! but if their favorite fighter is landing punches behind someones head all night its all good... its shameful....if a guy like mayweather or ward was in a coma because of rabbit punches these scumbags would not give two flying ***s... but if it happened to a scumbag like kovalev all hell would break loose.... tony weeks needs to be banned for aloowing all those rabbit punches

[festinalente]

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?

Yes, too difficult, specially whe you gass and let the oponent to spark you with a brutal right han on your chin.

Plus, kowardlev faked so much that I thought that he would fake another low blow again when ward destroyed his chin.

Kowardlev -> if I'm the one hitting, I'm a badass, a brave badass. If I'm the one being hit I'm a little scared baby girl who fakes, turns his back and sits on the ropes defenceless praying for the referee to stop the fight. That's DISGUSTING.

The truth is that kowardlev is not even half a man, girls in my gym are braver, at least they dont fake and turn their backs when they are being punished.

[Kigali]

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?

Why was the Kwitter turning his back like an abused female?

[thack]

Kovalev was Robbed of the first decision but Ward was better in the rematch.Ward was in command after that right hand and had no need to foul the way he did.Crazy hometown refereeing and low blows took the shine off a fine victory.

[ruedboy]

If you think you're getting hit low, you can complain to the ref. If the ref doesn't do anything then you've got to answer with low blows of your own. That's pro boxing.
If Kovalev and Jackson went into a Ward fight not expecting to be fouled then the result was a done deal.

[p4ptbe]

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?

so if kkkovalev the cry baby little girl won why is she changing trainers lmfaooooo!

[Deletrious]

Kovalev needs to fight a couple different people and get his head on straight and his confidence back.