Was Canelo vs Kovalev fixed?

My god you are beyond dense. He has not responded to my points. Am I only one with ****ing sense here!?!

 

Oh my god you are ****ing triggering. You hadn't made any attempt at a response to my points you lying deceitful POS

 

For the sake of argument, let's say I agree with your characterization of Kovalev's performance entirely. What points do you want me to acknowledge? The argument here is why he fought that way, not that he fought poorly.

 

These were you points lmao.. If you think this even at any level is debating my points then you're an idiot

Hilarious how stupid you're being

 

How about you read my countless posts outlinung that several times and then come back to me.. This time try and answer the questions or lines of logic I pose rather than blanket stating "aging fighters lose their ability to throw punches" - which I've countered on several different levels time and time again

 

Please list one, and only one, point you think that I'm avoiding. I promise to respond.

 

Absolutely deluded. You can't even read and understand lines of my reasoning and then respond to them. Complete below average analysis

 

See above. Please list *one* point you think I'm avoiding.

 

See above this post.. The lines of reasoning are pretty clear

 

Ofc it was a fix anyone that says otherwise is an idiot

Even professional fighters has come out and said it

 

Thank you, @Quina74 !

My comments in bold:

Does being shot mean you cannot extend your arms properly or throw a single punch with intent over 11 rounds? I think he did extend his arms and throw a few good shots, but not many. The reason he fought so timidly is that he lost confidence in his ability to take a shot, which would be required in an exchange. And the more he put emphasis on his shots and extended, the more vulnerable he would be. Mind you, Buddy McGirt explicitly before the fight that he wanted Kov to "get the **** out of dodge", so his performance along these lines was disappointing to me but not surprising. Does it mean that you staying the opponents range and pull punches... I disagree that he stayed in Canelo's range. That actually was one thing he did well for most of the fight. He was able to use the pitter pat jab to keep Canelo busy and distract him. Kovalev had one of if not the best straight 1-2 and jab and his jab was elite of the elite.. And very accurate.. Before he was shot, yes. You want to tell me coming off a short camp he just forgot how to extend his arms properly... Lol See above

He did this from round 1..Even being exhausted you can throw a punch with intent and with full extension, he wasn't doing that the whole fight. He wasn't "exhausted", he was not properly prepared. I am sure you have played sports. If you go really hard one day, you can't do the same the next day. It's not because you are exhausted, it's because your body needs time to recover. In this case I don't think the short camp led to Kov not committing as much to his punches, as that was clearly strategic as outlined by McGirt, but I do think it probably affected his reflexes some and thus he was not able to take advantage of the opportunities he had occasionally to throw better shots.

 

Thanks for actually responding this time (@lufcrazy) I'm sorry dude but no, Kovalev committed to none of his shots, clearly wasn't fully extending hs punches from round 1 through 11 as well as pulling punches and not putting intent on any of his punches. There may have been the odd instance where he was fully extending but these weren't punches thrown with full intent or dangerous heavy punches

I've countered this previously -
"He was slowly pitty pattying Canelo who had a high guard pretty much the entire fight. Pretty much never throwing a hard committed shot. There are countless instances where Kovalev had clear openings to throw hard fast straights yet just slowly pitty pattied Canelo's guard for which much of the time Canelo wasn't even reacting to - hence Kovalev would have easily been able to land with faster commited straights, and something which would have been made all the more easier given the clear on display height and reach advantage.

Kovalev showed much more hesitation to Yardes punches (and literally all other opponents before that) than Canelo's yet throughout his fight with Yarde he was committing to pretty much all his punches, stepping in, fully extending and not pulling punches. This is something he did not do against Canelo who was there to be hit and did not demonstrate excellent defence that night as he was just simply plodding forward and not moving his head. This was a Canelo moving up two weight classes, and was no KO artist at 154 (with his notable knockouts being a 140lber chinny Khan and nobody past it Kirkland)... But Kovalev was scared of Canelo's counters? argument that just fails on every level here"

No he demonstrated brilliant jab and straight shots in all fights including the Yarde and Eleider 2 fights.

I was using exhausted as an example. The only case someone would not extend punches or throw with intent throughout the entirety of a fight is if they have ****ed their elbow or shoulder up (and in that instance they can still throw and fully extend - see 130lber Loma against huge Lopez in the second half of the fight).

Even defense inclined Herol Graham was extending his arms fully and putting intent on punches against the arguably p4p hardest hitter and murderous scary puncher Julian Jackson