Poll - Clear and obvious staged fight and dive.

Lol absolutely not. Kovalev took Canelo lightly, gassed and got sparked. Not the first Alvarez he's done this against.

 

So is the theory kovalev agreed to let himself get knocked out later in the fight? I guess that’s possible but seems like a stretch to me. Cause that ko was legit, it clearly wasn’t faked which only leaves that option, he knew he was going to allow himself to get taken out with legitimate punches. Nothing would surprise me though to be honest.

 

These same people will tell you that Floyd's illegal IV use doesn't mean a damn thing.

 

Bingo.

Pride does not pay the bills.

 

He didnt take Canelo lightly. Canelo is an excellent puncher. Kovalev just followed his own script.

 

Canelo schooled his old ass and made kovalev and all the people who thought he could win look like fools.

 

Then how come Canelo couldn't knock out drug addicted drained Chavez?

 

Chavez inherited his father's iron chin.

Kovalev has had questionable resistance for a few years now. Don't forget he was also knocked out last year by Eleider Alvarez. Neurologically that causes some serious and lasting damage. If the brain is starved of oxygen for even a few seconds parts of it can begin to die on a cellular and neural pathway level.

Kovalev is done.

 

Winky Wright with the tight guard, and he also slipped a few shots as well. He didn't get hit much.

 

Nah, it was a terrible strategy! Sacrificed power for stamina and it ended up biting them in the ass.

 

The overlap between people who think Sandy Hook was a bunch of child actors and those who think Kovalev took a dive is near 100%.

Not the sharpest thinkers.

When a proud Russian gets knocked out with two flush punches, does a "stanky leg", and is curled over on the ropes, you know he's not "faking it".

Is there a contract? Would Canelo's people leave this to chance without a contract? Surely not. "Sign here Sergey. Drop your hands on the ropes in the 11th and let Canelo have two free ones". How do you enforce a contract requiring someone to commit fraud?

What if Sergey decided not to abide by the contract on fight night . Decide instead to go all krusher style and KO Canelo? What, would they murder him? That would be awfully suspicious, wouldn't it? Presumably, after having been murdered, Kathy Duva, Sergey's management, trainer, and wife, etc. might release the contract to the media and police?

You people are complete idiots.

 

Did Kovalev take a dive in the sense of the word like Liston-Ali 2? No. Did he realize after eight or nine rounds that he wasn’t going to get a decision in Vegas against Canelo and decide to stop giving it his all? Probably. Was Oscar de la Hoya or one of his lackeys lurking somewhere in the background before the fight with a promise of a nice bonus should Kovalev lose? Yeah.

 

No way did Sergei take Canelo lightly. He showed so much respect that he refused to really sit on his punches. It was similar to the strategy he used for the Eleider rematch or the Hopkins fight.

 

Respect to Badou Jack for having the balls to call it how it was = total fix !

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No one is saying Kovalev deliberately got KOd. What are questioning is why did a prolific power jabber and even bigger power puncher make almost zero effort to attack a naturally much smaller man.