Is Kovalev-ward this era's Hoya-trinidad?

[Teetotaler]

Im talking in terms of result not the performance. Even though one guy clearly one (kovalev, oscar) the other guu got the decision. Also there was no rematch for de la hoya-trinidad and ward being a lil ***** that he is, wants to retire apparently.
What do you guys think?

[A.K]

Difference is kov won round 10 and 12

[Dr Rumack]

Neither of them are anywhere near as popular as Tito or Oscar. Nor are they ever likely to be.

[The Big Dunn]

I would say no. ODH and Tito were far more popular and that fight was an event while this was just a fight.

ODH also won 8 rounds and then just ran. Kov kept fighting but was losing rounds.

[FinitoxDinamita]

Not at all

[iamboxing]

Difference is DLH didn't cry after the fight

[daggum]

this was a much worse decision. most of ward's punches weren't even legal clean punches. low blows and holding and hitting count as body work now? not according to the rules of boxing but whatever even if you pretended that they were clean he still loses clearly. when you have to ignore the rules and make up your own scoring criteria and even while doing that you don't have a good argument to why your guy won...its prob a robbery

[Scipio2009]

Im talking in terms of result not the performance. Even though one guy clearly one (kovalev, oscar) the other guu got the decision. Also there was no rematch for de la hoya-trinidad and ward being a lil ***** that he is, wants to retire apparently.
What do you guys think?

not really, tbh

Oscar De La Hoya, thinking that he was up, chose to coast out the last few rounds of the Trinidad fight, opening the door enough for Trinidad to nip those rounds and lose the fight.

Sergey Kovalev came out a wrecking machine, even dropping Andre Ward, but seemingly ran out of gas/ideas of what to do after the 4th round, going on to basically get beat on over the last 8 rounds of the fight.

Kovalev had no answer for Andre Ward's infighting, had no answer for Ward's shotgun jab once Andre figured out the range, and had **** conditioning down the back stretch of the fight.