Crazy. People are too swayed by watching a huge punching, exciting fighter, being the aggressor. Watch the fight again. For large parts, he was chasing Andre down but landing nothing of significance. In one of the rounds he threw about 10 shots, landing only 1 of them. Andre frustrated him. He made him miss and then he countered him. He hit him with some great body shots. Paulie M was right. You can't give rounds on aggression alone. Andre was spinning him and landing subtle shots. If you look at boxing in it's purest form, Andre won a close fight. I'm not at all surprised by your opinion, because I know you think Carl Froch beat Andre Dirrell. And that was another ridiculous decision, where Carl was basically awarded the rounds based on effort.
I dont need to watch the fight again. I dont base fights just on aggression. You forget that I was a big fan of Mayweather. I based it on Kovalev slipping and landing more, looking more effective. Many are swayed to give rounds when they do marginally better after a bad round. I suggest you watch it again, only one round at a time with a day apart
I didn't say that. The official judges scored it for Ward not because of racism but because they got paid to do so. There are also other cases of non-racism. Rumsfeld, for example, is just a Ward fanboy, and like all Ward fanboys he fails to mention Ward's ducking and cheating. Now that he got outboxed, these guys all score it for Ward. But most people who scored it for Ward are doing so because Ward looks like them. Just check out LDBC on youtube and then come here and tell me they're not just racists. They're not very good at hiding their real motive.
I had it wide for Ward. After the first two rounds which I gave to Kovalev, I thought he would go on to dominate. In fact what happened is he threw very little, and was consistently outboxed and frustrated by Ward. Seems people were very influenced by firstly the knockdown, and secondly the idiot American casters. If you watched the British cast, they all scored it for Ward and as Malignaggi pointed out did not blindly score rounds for Kovalev based on ineffective aggression. Lederman ALWAYS scores his fights for the aggressor whether they are boxing well or not. Kovalev definitely did not slip more, in fact Ward had a much higher connect percentage. Ward dominated the 2nd half of the fight. I feel that the people who scored this fight for Kovalev, are the same people who scored Pac/Marquez 2 for Pac, and Maidana/PBF for Maidana.
Well, this is what every non-biased viewer saw. Unfortunately, half of boxing fans are interested more in skin color than in actual boxing.
This guy really pulling the race card. These tears aren't enough to quench my thirst, please cry more, it's extremely entertaining watching the fan boys having a melt down. This guy might commit suicide and claim it's BLM's fault...
This is not how the fight went down at all. Kovalev put early pressure on but he was unable to land anything cleanly as the fight progressed, it was abundantly clear that Ward was making Kovalev miss, land shots to the arms or glancing blows and this left him open to being worked to the body. If the fight had gone to Kovalev it could have been argued the result was right I guess, but it goes down to that old chestnut that you have to rip the title from the champion and for me that is what happened!!
You're doing what all your LDBC buddies are doing: avoiding the discussion. Why not tell us which 7 rounds Ward won and why he won them? Maybe because that would make it too obvious that you're just a clown? Or maybe you're not smart enough to make a coherent argument.
3, 5 and every round after the 6th except the 10th. 7 rounds to 5, 114-113. Does that upset you? Need a tissue? Gonna pull the race card again?
You gave rd 9 to Kovalev, your scores are irrelevant. Even the biggest Kovalev fans had Ward clearly winning 9.
That would actually be 8-4 and I just rewatched it and had the same card. 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12. 6, 12 were close but so were 4, and 10.