Comments Thread For: Sergey Kovalev: I'm Not Broken Mentally From TKO Loss to Ward

[Boxing lives]

Sergey "victor ortiz" Kovalev is done. He sounded like a bumbling idiot in the interview. Likely his piss poor broken english let him down. Still, once a quitter always a quitter. Even his trainer said he straight up quit. Ward completely broke him. He was on the verge of bending the knee if the ref hadn't jumped in and saved Kova.

[aboutfkntime]

Sergey "victor ortiz" Kovalev is done. He sounded like a bumbling idiot in the interview. Likely his piss poor broken english let him down. Still, once a quitter always a quitter. Even his trainer said he straight up quit. Ward completely broke him. He was on the verge of bending the knee if the ref hadn't jumped in and saved Kova.

Ward is a level above anyone that Kovalev could face

and nobody has that style

a new camp..... a fresh outlook..... a new approach..... a couple of lower-level victims to get his mojo back..... good as new

well, maybe not new

I still like Kovalev, I wish him the very best

[eco1]

“Before my last fight, I was in very good shape, best shape. But something happened with me when I stepped into the ring. I was very relaxed. I don’t know why – just maybe nervous. But I didn’t [feel] nervous. It was for me a surprise. I was surprised. Something happened with me, like maybe in my mind some things that it can be unfair again. I don’t know.”

WTF was this???

he was drugged... who knows?

[eco1]

He went from posting memes about Ward praying to his god after he got a knockdown in Ward-Kov 1 to saying God has blessed him. He went from saying he would crush Ward and end his career to defending his mental toughness. It's crazy what one fight and a couple of months can do to a guy.

well, to be fair, he won the first fight and was ahead in the 2nd, then he got lowballed.

[future hendrixx]

ward took his soul. he has it in a jar now.. kovalev will never be the same.

[R_Walken]

Kov always has excuses

But the being drugged one is the most ******ed one to date, Like come on who in hell is going to believe that

I'm a Kov hater and I don't think he has much left

[MDPopescu]

He's saying that he went into the ring not just with the pressure of another legacy defying title fight, but also with the pressure of knowing that he was facing more than just Ward in there but also all the officials. And he was right.

OK, I know that Russians are inclined to psychological digression... but...

[Madison Boxing]

why would he be mentally broken? he was winning the fight until one of the worst stoppages ive ever seen in my life. yeah that right hand wobbled him but fighters get wobbled all the time, it doesnt mean the ending is inevitable. look at klitschko v joshua.

[MDPopescu]

Maybe he had an existential crisis during the fight and realized that he wasn't going to win no matter what he did...

That was a joke, but let's be real: he won that first fight. He wasn't going to win that fight unless he knocked Ward out. It definitely has to shake your confidence to know that no matter how good you fight, you're not going to win a decision.

... I don't even say that he won the first fight... But I can say that Ward didn't do enough to get a decision in that fight and, therefore, to get all those belts...

[Zexe]

Good action fighter who got screwed by Vegas judges in the first fight and had a ref who ignored repeated low blows, topped off by allowing the fight to end on a foul, in the second fight.
Vegas, the "Mecca of Boxing", what a joke.

spot on, Byrd shameful scoring in Canelo - GGG just goes to show how Vegas politics dictates who wins and who loses.
Kovalev was clearly stopped by a series of low blows from Ward, anyone who does not admit that knows nothing about boxing aka is a casual fan. look up the video again to convince yourself.