Thank You Kovalev Thank You Yarde

[buddyr]

LOL, Sorry buddy! I thought you were a brit. Yarde did okay but showed his inexperience. He should spar though! His trainer is nuts!

i agree. I hate UK fighters because they hide out over there and let other fighters in their division beat the hell out of each other and then come over and then decide to cherry pick their fight. Never liked them outside of a few.

[alexguiness]

No sparring, never fought more than 8 rounds, then take on Kovalev in Russia?

Sounds like a plan lol.

[Alan Smithee]

i agree. I hate UK fighters because they hide out over there and let other fighters in their division beat the hell out of each other and then come over and then decide to cherry pick their fight. Never liked them outside of a few.

I agree but I do like Frampton and Callum Smith.

[Damn Wicked]

I had the fight 6-4 for Kovalev going into the 11th. That's not a domination. They were going back and forth and Kovalev was almost stopped in the 8th.

You're being quite generous towards Yarde. I though he was getting outboxed most of the night. Yarde did well with his shiftiness though...that made it harder for Kovalev to crack him with hard right hands....but Yarde was getting hit by heavy jabs all night and you could see that it caused him to a lot of difficulty and created hesitancy in his offense.

[MaksBox]

You're being quite generous towards Yarde. I though he was getting outboxed most of the night. Yarde did well with his shiftiness though...that made it harder for Kovalev to crack him with hard right hands....but Yarde was getting hit by heavy jabs all night and you could see that it caused him to a lot of difficulty and created hesitancy in his offense.

You just needed to listen to him say "It is really hard." when he was sitting on the stool in like the 4th or 5th.

[Eff Pandas]

Yea respect & appreciation to both guys. Good, fun fight.

[WallabeeKing]

The sheer joy on Kathy Duva's face after the fight was priceless. Good for her.

Respect to Kov and Yarde, great fight, the odds were very close for a reason. It's a fight I will talk about with peers for a while.