I still don't understand why the ref didn't give kov a recovery

[NaijaD]

But both are slurs based on cultural appropriation...Ward is mixed race, black american and white irish.

Is one side of his race more / less deserving of respect?

Dont reduce yourself to insulting me, just answer with an open mind and heart.

Why are you quizzing me and not Vlad??

Ward is mixed race but clearly he looks black enough to be called a cottonpicker.

I'm not reducing myself to anything, you are pathetic trying to compare calling someone a ****** irish punk to a cotton picker.

[alexguiness]

Why are you quizzing me and not Vlad??

Ward is mixed race but clearly he looks black enough to be called a cottonpicker.

I'm not reducing myself to anything, you are pathetic trying to compare calling someone a ****** irish punk to a cotton picker.

So you ARE racist yourself!

I'm just glad we got there in the end to be honest.

I dont believe you are ****** or pathetic btw, but you shouldn't hide your own ignorance behind victimhood.

Peace.

[Legendary Hater]

There's 2 things we can clearly deduce from this thread...

1. Ward beat Kovalev up and made him quit...

2. Someone is a lying, frantic, racist, alcoholic NUTHUGGER...

Thank you, thank you all...

[john l]

Calling low blows for what they are does not make me a fanboy. Having been low blown in rounds 2,6,7,8 with the ref doing nothing would make any boxer discouraged. No pictures on my wall, I don’t worship Kovalev, but I do really like him as a boxer.

Whatever makes you feel better at night I guess lol.

[D4thincarnation]

Stop it

Even with the low blows ( although he was bunched over ) He had mentally surrendered before the fight got called off

I believe the round before he tried getting a time out for a supposed low blow that wasn't low.

In the last round he turned his back and also initiated like there was a low blow causing Ward to pause and wait for Weeks to let the fight continue

These are not the actions of someone wanting to fight, Kov fans just need to admit he didn't want it anymore and even if you want to cry that the last couple punches were low ( even though he went defenceless and crouched down ) the fight would have ended soon after that

When I watched it live I thought it was a bit early, But the reality is Kov was mentally broken so if it didn't happen then it would have happened a minute or so down the road and the result would have been the same

Ward bullied the bully end of story

Low blows all fights.

Punching someone in the nuts is a great way to bully people.

The cards were pretty even, but Kovalev was tiring fast, but then again nut shots do have that type of effect.

[john l]

there's 2 things we can clearly deduce from this thread...

1. Ward beat kovalev up and made him quit...

2. Someone is a lying, frantic, racist, alcoholic nuthugger...

Thank you, thank you all...

lmao...........

[R_Walken]

Low blows all fights.

Punching someone in the nuts is a great way to bully people.

The cards were pretty even, but Kovalev was tiring fast, but then again nut shots do have that type of effect.

Stop it he gassed in the second half of the first fight

Kov fans have more excuses then Kov

F.ucking sad

[DinoCop]

Yup. Sergey would've gotten beaten up and humiliated more than he already had if the fight hadn't been stopped right there.

And the Spartans responded "If"... Hah.
The low, illegal punches caused Kovalev to fold down and the ref through a great vista, clear cut vision, called it a TKO; testicular, technical however you call it.
You guys are basically agree that the stoppage was a fiasco but trying to convince us that Kovalev was already on his way to get beaten bcz he wobbled once. Ward actually had been punching low and headbutting through the whole fight.
Please don't fight with facts, these are not opinions, stuff everyone can see on a monitor.

[Eddy Current]

And the Spartans responded "If"... Hah.
The low, illegal punches caused Kovalev to fold down and the ref through a great vista, clear cut vision, called it a TKO; testicular, technical however you call it.
You guys are basically agree that the stoppage was a fiasco but trying to convince us that Kovalev was already on his way to get beaten bcz he wobbled once. Ward actually had been punching low and headbutting through the whole fight.
Please don't fight with facts, these are not opinions, stuff everyone can see on a monitor.

I never said I thought the shots were low. I thought they were on the border of being low, as did Roy Jones Jr. Kovalev was looking for help from the ref at that point in the fight and was overselling those borderline punches as being low. No way did those hit him in the junk.

It's just an excuse for people who don't like Andre Ward.

[john l]

Stop it he gassed in the second half of the first fight

Kov fans have more excuses then Kov

F.ucking sad

It really is cant believe how many people are just bblind to it.I mean it started in the 2nd half of 1st fight