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Agreed. We can't pretend, because you can only pretend things that aren't already true. We can say Kovalev never lost to Ward, however, because he didn't. We all know boxing is corrupt, and that official decisions are often inaccurate. In those cases, we as fans have to trust what we actually saw happen, not simply put blind trust into judges or referees or commissions who have a history of corruption and favoring the hometown money-making boxer.
With that understood, there are really only two ways to look at the outcome of the two Kovalev-Ward fights. One way is that Kovalev is 1-0-1, with him winning the first fight, and the second fight being a No Contest due to a corrupt or incompetent ref who did not allow the fight to take place on fair terms according to the rules of boxing, and who then did not even allow the slanted, unfair fight he had presided over to come to a true ending where we could have determined the winner of even the fight that was taking place under slanted rules.
The other way is that Kovalev is 2-0-0, having won the first fight on the cards, and having won the second fight by disqualification. Given that Kovalev was "stopped" by a corrupt or incompetent referee, but video replay shows the stoppage to have been caused by a series of intentional fouls, really the closest thing to a true result that fans can fish out of the unfinished mess that Tony Weeks created is for fans to say that the ref must have stopped Kovalev because he was hurt and could not continue, and the punches that hurt Kovalev to the extent that the ref stopped it were intentional fouls, so therefore the rules say Ward should have been disqualified.
Those are the only true results any fan can come to about the Kovalev-Ward fights when you ignore the corrupt scorecards and referees and add up what actually happened. 1-0-1 or 2-0-0. Kovalev outlanded, outhurt, and outdropped Ward in the first fight, while being the effective aggressor all night. Corrupt hometown judges aside, we all know that means he won. The second fight was an extremely corrupt affair where the hometown ref stopped a fight after a series of intentional low blows in a fight where neither man had even tasted the canvas once. In addition to that series of intentional fouls, the only legitimate punch Ward actually hurt Kovalev with, the right hand to the head in the final round, was set up by an intentional headbutt to Kovalev's temple AND another intentional headbutt to his balls.
So I mean, when you have a boxer intentionally headbutting their opponent in the balls, and that's not even the worst foul they commit all fight, then yeah, disqualification is actually a very reasonable idea as well. That's why I say, the only two true, reasonable outcomes any objective fan could have here is that it's either 1-0-1 Kovalev, or 2-0-0 Kovalev. Either way, Ward never beat Kovalev, that's for sure.
With that understood, there are really only two ways to look at the outcome of the two Kovalev-Ward fights. One way is that Kovalev is 1-0-1, with him winning the first fight, and the second fight being a No Contest due to a corrupt or incompetent ref who did not allow the fight to take place on fair terms according to the rules of boxing, and who then did not even allow the slanted, unfair fight he had presided over to come to a true ending where we could have determined the winner of even the fight that was taking place under slanted rules.
The other way is that Kovalev is 2-0-0, having won the first fight on the cards, and having won the second fight by disqualification. Given that Kovalev was "stopped" by a corrupt or incompetent referee, but video replay shows the stoppage to have been caused by a series of intentional fouls, really the closest thing to a true result that fans can fish out of the unfinished mess that Tony Weeks created is for fans to say that the ref must have stopped Kovalev because he was hurt and could not continue, and the punches that hurt Kovalev to the extent that the ref stopped it were intentional fouls, so therefore the rules say Ward should have been disqualified.
Those are the only true results any fan can come to about the Kovalev-Ward fights when you ignore the corrupt scorecards and referees and add up what actually happened. 1-0-1 or 2-0-0. Kovalev outlanded, outhurt, and outdropped Ward in the first fight, while being the effective aggressor all night. Corrupt hometown judges aside, we all know that means he won. The second fight was an extremely corrupt affair where the hometown ref stopped a fight after a series of intentional low blows in a fight where neither man had even tasted the canvas once. In addition to that series of intentional fouls, the only legitimate punch Ward actually hurt Kovalev with, the right hand to the head in the final round, was set up by an intentional headbutt to Kovalev's temple AND another intentional headbutt to his balls.
So I mean, when you have a boxer intentionally headbutting their opponent in the balls, and that's not even the worst foul they commit all fight, then yeah, disqualification is actually a very reasonable idea as well. That's why I say, the only two true, reasonable outcomes any objective fan could have here is that it's either 1-0-1 Kovalev, or 2-0-0 Kovalev. Either way, Ward never beat Kovalev, that's for sure.
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