DISGUSTING, DISGUSTING..... DISGUSTING!

No point in a 3rd fight, unless its out of Wards home area & a ref that has the balls to actually enforce the rules on both men!

 

Sep, 1st of all your being silly "Pimpass" has no balls at all. Plus anyone knows that a slight tap is usually more painfull as the balls cannot move away, so the cup lifting up is enough...agree with all the rest though...

 

The first fight can be debated, but controversial decisions happen all the time we'll have to deal with it. The point is Kov was offered a chance to avenge his defeat, he really talk the talk about how he would whip Ward's ass but fail to walk the walk. Nut shots sure hurt as hell but the way he reacted does not show the true grit of a champion. My two cent.

 

Well so can low blows & winning off them can also be debated Max...& its all wrong , as far as London Boxing Rules & M of Q goes or do you prefer MMa , because we might just as well have been watching that the way Ward holds & fouls continuously.

 

Kovalev was looking for a way out he didn't even protest the stoppage because he was so mentally and physically tired. I honestly believe that had Weeks allowed the fight to continue Kovalev wouldn't have come out for the 9th round and would have quit in his corner.

What most people here didn't realize going into this rematch were 2 important things 1 Kovalev was a bully and bullies quit or back down when you stand up to them and Ward knew this and said as much and is too mentally tough to be bullied and in turn bullied Kovalev. 2. you can't give a boxer like Ward a rematch he can and will make the necessary adjustments as Kovalev and his fans found out. Power is overrated skills arent, I've said this for years. Power can be taken away like Ward did in the rematch he took away Kovalev's power right hand beat him to the body and frustrated him. It was really an underrated clinic if anything.


The things that Kovalev fans focused on had no real substance like Kovalev is angry he will stop Ward in 3, Kovalev fans were just as emotional as he was. They said stupid **** like "Kovalev fights better when he's angry" "Look what he did to Pascal" I mean that's the type of dumb **** casuals say. I kept telling people that by fighting angry like Kovalev did wouldn't work against a master boxer and a cool customer like Ward he's too good for that and look what happened. This is chess not checkers. People will learn one day and look at all aspects of a match up and not what they want to see or want to be true, wishful thinkers always end up on the losing side remember that. This was a very easy fight to predict and I saw this coming a mile away.

 

Exactly Weeks was declared as a great ref who let Maidana mug low blow elbow knee hit PBF in the back of the head. Now all of a sudden he's trash and should be run out of the sport. Funny how that works???

 

Kinda like you hate African America fighters right? I don't hate EE fighters I don't hate Kovalev what I hate are people like you with double standards who don't know **** about boxing and are always full of excuses and never give credit where it's due.

 

Nailed it.
Plus 10

 

yep

to the folks who think there's nothing odd about how this fight ended:

has Kov ever done a "no mas" in any of his fights? (he hasn't)

in the prior fight or at anytime in the second fight, did any of Ward's body shots ever have the same effect on Kov (ie, cause him to just turn away)?

body shots can do tremendous damage, but Ward doesn't have that kind of power; Ward himself admits he's not the hardest puncher. Ward has many strengths as a boxer, but the kind of power to end a fight with a body shot isn't one of them.

i agree the best course is to ignore the fouls and fight on, but more than a few on this forum just don't seem to understand that low blows are illegal for a reason--if it were always possible to "fight on" after a low blow then these kind of punches would not be illegal

again, the sequence just before fight was stopped: Ward lands two low blows, followed by an uncontested right hand to the side of the head, followed by another low blow which ends the fight.

 

Kov was hurt event before the low blows, and only one blow could be considered illegal, others are bordeline. My point is Ward's dirty tactics are well-known yet Kov has no answer whatsoever. He was behind on points and about to be wrecked in the next couple of rounds. And clinching is legitimate boxing tactic bruh, Ali held alot too and nobody seems to be bothered.

 

1. Nut shots hurt. But the general area above it ain't hurt that much. Kov was rocked by Ward's punches even before that.
2. There is no official statement about substance abuse concerning Ward. As far as I know he's clean.
3. I suggest you watch Ricky Hatton vs Kostya Tszyu. It's as ugly as it gets with nut shots, rabbit punches, wrestling etc but Hatton proved to be the tougher man and forced Tszyu to quit. Now if Kov is as good as you claim, why couldn't he do the same, given that he has 12 rounds of experience to work out a strategy.