How the international boxing medias scored Kovalev-Ward

[daggum]

No way Ward is winning the 3th...or just rewatch it.

yeah the 3rd is clearly kovalev's. ward landed one nice jab that snapped kov's head so i guess he deserves it even thogh kov himself landed a 3 punch combo that drove ward back on top of a bunch of jabs and other shots. very silly to give that round to ward simply because he wasn't dominated as much.

[Saigon Royale]

Can't say I disagree. Had Sergey winning as well. Good fight though.

[SthPaw]

Ward won one round in the first half of the fight (I believe it was the 5th on my card) and was knocked down in the process. He needed to do a lot more than what he actually ended up doing. A lot more.

[daggum]

Ward won one round in the first half of the fight (I believe it was the 5th on my card) and was knocked down in the process. He needed to do a lot more than what he actually ended up doing. A lot more.

rounds in the second half count for triple

[_Maxi]

yeah the 3rd is clearly kovalev's. ward landed one nice jab that snapped kov's head so i guess he deserves it even thogh kov himself landed a 3 punch combo that drove ward back on top of a bunch of jabs and other shots. very silly to give that round to ward simply because he wasn't dominated as much.

This. Some people gave that round to Ward just because he didn't look as bad as the previous two. Stupid. That's not how you score a fight.

[Vasyl’s dad]

yeah the 3rd is clearly kovalev's. ward landed one nice jab that snapped kov's head so i guess he deserves it even thogh kov himself landed a 3 punch combo that drove ward back on top of a bunch of jabs and other shots. very silly to give that round to ward simply because he wasn't dominated as much.

You can't give Kovalev rounds just because Ward didn't go down. This is america.

[bojangles1987]

That's in line with what I've seen. Much easier to score the fight for Kovalev than Ward, and the scorecards reflect it. Most of them also reflect how close the fight was.

[soul_survivor]

"Most respected Boxing analyst gave the fight to Ward." - Redd Foxx.
It just makes me laugh.

thats how you know Red Dingo is a lying sack of ****. Pretty all the esteemed names in boxing journalism from The Ring to the Guardian, to The Telegraph, to the LA Times to Boxing News etc etc etc gave the fight to Kovalev.

I think of the 21 genuine boxing publications and journalists I counted (not counting **** like boxing asylum and stuff) the score was 17-4 to Kovalev.

It was that easy.

[brick wall]

the fight was close but a kovalev win is much more acceptable than ward's...actually you got to be a little bias to give ward the win and that's what the judges did...to think no one among the 3 judges even considered a kovalev victory is ridiculous...ward already had the upperhand even before the bell rang for the 1st round imo.

[Golden Boi 360]

Sometimes the minority is correct lol.

Obviously it was a close fight with so much discussion lol.