No. Kovalev was wilting from legal bodyshots.
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Can we agree that Ward's Lowblows changed the course of the Kovalev fight?
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Originally posted by BoxingIsGreat View PostThe answer is NO. Protect yourself at all times, especially your balls!
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Originally posted by gauze View Postno they didnt change the fight, but you're saying they were ball punches??? so basically, lowblows should be legal and there should be no warnings/point deductions/5 minutes to recover for illegal tactics. is that what you're saying?
Stop crying...he got his ass whipped.
Thoses a far more dangerous fouls than low blows.
Rabbit punches have put fighters in comas....I don't recall low blows putting a guy in an assisted living facility.
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Originally posted by DramaShow View Postnot to tread over old ground but its ridiculous how that has been revised to be some dominant, conclusive win for ward. Low blows are illegal shots for a reason, cause they ****ing hurt. Whether people like it or not, they arent legal. To end the fight with a shot like that is beyond a joke. I watched highlights on skysports annual show with family over xmas, and they assumed that when the ref stepped in to stop the fight that they were stopping it to disqualify ward. They dont know much about boxing but thats the logical assumption, that you are going to penalise someone for an illegal shot. Yet on here, we've got the resident experts calling kovalev 'wards son' and raving about the performance. This is coming from supposedly respectable posters too. A fight got ended by someone getting punched in the balls, thats the fact of the matter. By wards standards he fought fairly clean in the 1st fight and struggled so i'd imagine these were deliberate tactics for the rematch. Boxings better off without him.
Does your hero (GGG) ducking Ward really hurt your pride this much?
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Originally posted by gauze View Postno they didnt change the fight, but you're saying they were ball punches??? so basically, lowblows should be legal and there should be no warnings/point deductions/5 minutes to recover for illegal tactics. is that what you're saying?
Once I can understand, but for repeated lowblows, you should give them back equally, or even harder.
Never ever rely on a ref if it's more than once. Hit him right back in the balls. That's what I meant. I wouldn't hesitate it if someone hit me low repeatedly, intentionally.
Protect yourself at all times doesn't exclude the balls.
I didn't see repeated lowblows in Ward-Kovalev. Many vicious body punches, with a few stray ones. Lowblows didn't determine that fight for me, Ward's skills and heart did.
Kovalev wasn't a saint in that fight, either.Last edited by BoxingIsGreat; 01-06-2018, 03:12 PM.
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Yes of course those low blows changed the fight. Weeks wrongly stopped the fight on several very low blows when he should have been warning Ward about hitting below the belt and giving Kovalev 5 minutes to recover from low blows.
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Originally posted by boliodogs View PostYes of course those low blows changed the fight. Weeks wrongly stopped the fight on several very low blows when he should have been warning Ward about hitting below the belt and giving Kovalev 5 minutes to recover from low blows.
Kovalev just isn't tough...he can dish it out but he can't take it.
He throws his punches and clears out just like Bivol...to avoid any action on the inside.
Ward came out right-handed instead of lefty and Kovalev didn't have a clue.
Stop making excuses for the big puncher that was rabbit punching all night.
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