That looked staged as hell.

[Curtis Harper]

are you crazy, did you even watch the fight?

No....I didn't see the fight. In fact, what sport are we talking about ????

[£-4-£]

Give Canelo credit for this one. Legit KO over a faded and chinny champion. Kovalev was up 1-2 points on my card (I missed a round), Canelo was winning the 11th too. Nothing dodgy here imo, Kovalev looked somewhat gassed from the middle rounds and Canelo eventually capitalised. The shot on the top of the head rattled Kovalev a lot and the second punch buzz an already hurt fighter. The KO punch was brutal!

Canelo went up in my estimation, he got the job done. But let's not kid ourselves, he's not doing that the the King of the 175lbs division - Beterbiev. Ref stops Canelo on his feet in that fight.

[Dean_Razorback]

that left hook doesn't seem as hard to transform kovalev into khan even if it was on the ear

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— Canelo Alvarez (@Canelo) November 3, 2019

[Vlad_]

Nelo didn't give him any targets. GGG couldn't do much outside of jabbing either.

Maybe, just maybe, Nelo is better than people give him credit for.

Targets? His jab had zero power behind it from the very first bell. And yes there were targets. Hit the smaller man anywhere with your jab. Body, head, arms, wherever. He could have used his strong jab to hurt Canelo all over. Just punch him.

[Damn Wicked]

It's not about the KO, it's about Kovalev fighting like garbage from the first bell. What the hell were those jabs from the very beginning?

Kovalev was winning the fight....He just couldn't sustain it. The jabs were troubling Canelo a lot. Kovalev also threw in the occasional hard body shot to slow Canelo down. If Kovalev would have went for the kill early in the fight he may have got the KO....or he may have exhausted himself even earlier and been KO'd earlier. Buddy McGirt's game plan was a calculated risk that failed. We've seen the writing on the wall in the last 2 or 3 years. Kovalev has been much more fragile and he fades by the 5th or 6th round every fight. He could have won this fight but he didn't hold up physically. I thought he was comfortably ahead on the cards.

[Curtis Harper]

Targets? His jab had zero power behind it from the very first bell. And yes there were targets. Hit the smaller man anywhere with your jab. Body, head, arms, wherever. He could have used his strong jab to hurt Canelo all over. Just punch him.

Nelo maintained a very high guard. Did not pull back with his hands down. Did not allow Kov to dictate the pace or distance.

Nelo is the goods, like it or hate it.

[-Kev-]

It's not about winning. It's about never starting. From the first bell Kovalev just threw some empty jabs without any intention of winning.

Then blame his gameplan, not some fix or acting job.

It’s disrespectful and dumb to call that acting. You’ve seen boxers die. And you think Kovalev is just going to allow another pro fighter to tee off on him like that? And that he wasn’t trying?

He was following an ill-advised gameplan of staying outside and jabbing, and just try to win by boxing. Throwing power punches would have given him a better chance at catching Canelo with something, taking risks. But also leaves him open for Canelo’s shots. He opened up a little bit in the end and his worries came true. He got caught and lost. End of story.

The only acting I see are fans acting dumb, making sh/t up, trying their best to appear r/tarded.

[Curtis Harper]

Kovalev was winning the fight....

Woooooooooooooooooooooow................

[reathyields]

Dont mix me in with 99% of this forum, im not biased at all, i like Kov and Canelo, but to say that this fight is absolutely not fixed is dumb, we dont know that, you can call it cynical but its not being a close minded moron, i have no clue if it was fixed or not, i dont know those people, but it did look strange to me for sure

[DaNeutral.]

Nelo maintained a very high guard. Did not pull back with his hands down. Did not allow Kov to dictate the pace or distance.

Nelo is the goods, like it or hate it.

Yeah and because of the height difference Kov was struggling to land any jabs to the chest or below to try get Canelo to bring his hands down. His gaurd was really solid and wasnt for moving.

I hate it, but Nelo is the goods. I get that Kov was no longer the big beast he once was at 175 but Canelo aint no LightHeayweight. Respect where it is due.