Video evidence of the LEGAL body shots that destroyed Kovalev

The final sequence has been posted several times..

Ward backs Kov to the ropes, Kov throws 2 punches as Ward comes in, Ward throws 2 to the body, the last one being low and landing clearly on the capital B on Kov's trunks. My issue with it has always been the fight should not have ended on that punch.

 

I dont get the point of this thread.

Posting video from an earlier round of the fight, when the issue people have is the punch that ended the fight, which was not arguable, it was in fact so below the belt it hit the lettering. Video of this is everywhere...

 

The problem with this fight is people are confusing the "nuts" vs. "low".

The punch was low and if you can't see that, you are legitimately ignoring video evidence. It doesn't matter if he was hit in the sack or in the bladder....the punch was low.

 

Those two body shots cut Kovalev in half , he had to take a time out and at that point Ward was well in his rights to lay into him.

He planted the seed of doubt into Weeks thoughts about his willingness to be in the fights. By the third time he backed out , Weeks had seen enough and called it off.

It was still a premature stoppage , but Kovalev contributed to his decision to end it.

Any issues with the stoppage lie with Kovalev and Weeks. Ward boxed within the rules and proved to be the better man.

 

Same round

 

Same round

 

Yes it does matter. It also matters what position the opponent was in when the punch was thrown. As a referee, you have to take everything into account when deciding if something is a foul or not.

We are having people cry about how Ward hits Kovalev in the nuts, and basically make it seem like Ward only won the fight because he hit Kovalev in the nuts, some acting like there were multiple "nut" shots. I mean the level of exaggeration here is unbelievable, and your comment is just a means to basically excuse these type of misrepresentations of what happened by simply saying "it doesn't matter how low it was, the punch was low".

I don't think anyone here on either side of this is denying the fact that the last punch was low. We have people claiming that it was really low, particularly low enough to be in the nuts, indicating that it was a dirty punch or aimed extremely low to hit Kovalev precisely in the nuts. This is what we are dealing with posters saying, to which we are very accurately correcting this.

Here's what we know : The last punch was clearly low, but not low enough to be in the nuts. Aside from the last punch, none of Ward's preceding punches appeared to be below the belt-line. We have people claiming Ward was hitting Kovalev low repeatedly. I mean we have people here exaggerating and acting like Ward is a dirty fighter or something. You have to take into account how Kovalev was in a fetal position and while in that position, as Ward trying to land a body shot to end the fight, he has no idea where Kovalev's belt-line is. He has to get really low to land a punch to the body "upward" when an opponent is hunched over in such a fetal position that he is basically so hurt to the body that he is in that position to protect the body. Ward got Kovalev to need to be in that fetal "protect the body" position with legal belt-line punches. That's why he was there in the fetal position to begin with, he didn't want to go down, and he was brutalized to the body, he just curled up like a little baby in his crib. Ward did that, and Ward didn't do that by hitting him in the nuts or even low. While Kovalev was in a fetal position Ward landed it a little low. Well Ward wasn't aiming for it to be low, he was punching upward, he don't know where Kovalev's body is when he's hunched over like a baby protecting his precious body.

 

You're very late to the party.

The bs you posted has already been debunked and torn apart.

 

Those Golota blows were perfectly legal; Bowe just can't take it to the body.

If they look low it's just because of the funny camera angle and the fact that Bowe's trunks were too high. Facts.

If only Weeks had been the ref he would have correctly proclaimed Golota the winner because Bowe didn't want anymore of those legitimate body shots.

 

Negitive! Weeks pointed out what was low before the fight started! He layed his hand across the waist band of Kov and said that was a good shot. My question is, why didn't Kov or his corner protest at that point? Maybe because they knew the shot on the band was good! Anyone with eyes and ears can hear what Weeks said and see where Weeks pointed. Ignoring these facts is just pure hate!

 

Anything below the naval is a low blow.

 

Even my girlfriend felt those low blows and she doesnt have any nuts.