Ward vs Kessler

If they meet again later in the tournament will the result be the same??

 

Ward wins again, just as decisively. Even moreso. In fact, Kessler probably will lose to Green.

 

That's going way overboard.

I'll leave it at Ward still ought to be the favorite.

 

Kessler can't handle speed. I would pick Ward yet again to beat Kessler yet again.

 

No it´s not speed. Kessler is a rythm based fighter. Disrupt his rythm and he is uncomfortable and doesn´t know what to do. Calzaghe was a rythm disrupting fighter and Ward is one too.

Having said that, if Kessler can make it a brawl he has a good chance to take it. If he doesn´t he loses again.

 

The speed certainly doesn't hurt, as Kessler's handspeed is only slightly above average.

Speed kills...even when there's an accomplice. :yep

Otherwise, I agree with everything you said.

 

Of course speed helps. But speed can be negated. By timing and by a good dominating jab. Kessler has has both but it didn´t help him much.

The main factor for Ward was him disrupting Kessler´s rythm and not letting him get set. His speed was only one of a view tools to achieve that. His fouling, I don´t blame him, was another one.

 

Yeah thats hilarious, someone obviously doesnt know his boxing...