Comments Thread For: Sergey Kovalev: I Was Tired After The Sixth Round

[Free0001]

Simply put, Kovalev was too accommodating and did not want to hurt Canelo, the person who gave him an opportunity to make a large payday. As another poster mentioned, Nov had no animosity or bad intentions on his punches. Kov was essentially a neutral fanboy who didn't want to spoil Canelo's "history-making" night.

The oddsmakers and spectators must take a fighters psychological profile in mind, prior to placing bets and making predictions. I made the error of thinking that both men, came to fight. In reality, one fighter was in opportunity-mode, awaiting their chance to pounce, while the other was dissociated from the fight with no intent of "Krushing" their opponent. TBH, it was written all over Kov's face and within his body language.

A useless fight, because of the mismatched psychological profiles....

[BrometheusBob.]

We were all pretty tired by the time the dam fight started

[dranoel]

Kovalev showing worse stamina than my grandfather objectively.

Bro you're 36, pro athlete. Didn't take much punches to the body all night, didn't even put any mustard in your own shots, and you're saying you're tired? If you get tired in 12 minutes of a Zumba class, you shouldn't box at all. Foh sell out. Someone tell me how Chavez Jr did better than this fruit against Canelo. The biggest whiny Russian dude I ever had the chance to witness.

[Sinbad]

Man, they were shaking hands almost every round too much.
Kovalev's punch resistance has gone. He's done.
By the way, at the time of the ko I had Kovalev ahead 98-92.

[maracho]

That kind of pressure from Canelo will make an opponent tired in all kinds of ways but Kovalev's face before the fight did show all kinds of creases which are a sure sign of dehydration

[twosweethooks]

Canelo the king finally needs to fight a prime elite. One that is not old one that can fight and prove himself outside of Vegas. There are many! Callum, Beterbiev and little ol Sanders to name a few and how bout giving Charlo a shot ? Or Bivol??? Be a good champ. Don’t be a scumbag like your daddy TBESCUMBAG! Don’t take his place! Fight them and I give you my respect!! I will 😂😂😂😂

But I will be totally surprised when or “IF” that happens!!

He is ready to face GGG now that he is showing his great decline. He was chicken**** to face him in his prime and handed him the title!

Erik Morales is RIGHT !! You can tear him down with meaningless filth out of your mouths but YOU CAN NEVER DESTROY THE TRUTH 😂

[Jab jab boom]

I don't know why anyone is surprised that Kov feels this way or saying it's an excuse. Everyone knew going on that Kov was old and run down and fighting again within 10 weeks. That's why Canelo was a 4-1 favorite. I never understood why anyone felt this was some great risk Canelo took. It was moderate risk at best. Kovalev didn't have the durability to last 12 and in case he did, the judges weren't going to give it to him regardless of what happened in the ring. Kov had no shot of winning that fight last night even he if swept those last 2 rounds.

[Afi23]

Kovalev showing worse stamina than my grandfather objectively.

Bro you're 36, pro athlete. Didn't take much punches to the body all night, didn't even put any mustard in your own shots, and you're saying you're tired? If you get tired in 12 minutes of a Zumba class, you shouldn't box at all. Foh sell out. Someone tell me how Chavez Jr did better than this fruit against Canelo. The biggest whiny Russian dude I ever had the chance to witness.

Agree, even one Canelo landed a solid shot to the body, there was no "follow up" so Kov had time to "recover" after said body shot.

[johnbook]

I doubt that very much, he said in the pre fight interview that he just went for a **** and all was good. He didn't need to stress.
He was knocked out with a spectacular punch, I don't think that was faked, he was clearly out.
Canelo will never get rid of the drugs cheat label he created for himself, but you can't go knocking LHW champions even with drugs, you need technique and strategy. Canelo executed his game plan and came out on top, that takes skills, and seems to have that by the bucketload.

Was being facetious.
The fix was not the KD, but the lack of throwing hard, esp rts.

[Squ□redCircle34]

Kov needs to call it a career!

The criminal commie has had a hall of fame worthy career and will go down as one of best light heavyweights of his time!

Take the money and hang the gloves!

Now a real fight begins in court!

As for Canelo, he’s pound for pound number 1 no questions asked!

Going up 2 divisions no catchweight to knockout even a past prime Kovalev champ is no easy feat!

Canelo was clearly losing the fight and needed a KO to escape huge criticism if it went to the cards and he emphatically got it!

Now let’s get Canelo vs Beterbiev, I think Canelo can win but would have to fight a perfect fight!