Kovalev's thoughts on Wards punching power.

that...and

i dont know if john david jackson is smart enough to make any real adjustments...dunno if anyone in that team/camp is......i could easily see virgil, with tape on kovalev, actually making a tweak or two that could make things even easier......but we shall see

 

I can see why you may think so but I buy Kovalev's claim that he gassed due to over-training, also I saw their first encounter a little differently than you did. I am confident Kovalev will channel any sense of injustice he feels into a composed, professional strategy, one that involves Ward eating power jabs and whatever else Sergey can throw behind them until somebody - referee, Virgil (probably not a conscious SOG) stops him while Ward is still breathing.

 

Kovalev is already mentally beat. He wants to hang onto the idea that he was the one that already beat Ward. He's enjoyed and depended on the validation of people telling him he won the fight (to help him try and convince himself of this further) and has made himself the fattest I've ever seen him between training camps. He's having to dig deep again, whilst Ward has kept in shape and has an aura about him that's truly playing to win. He's not intimidated of Kovalev anymore in the slightest.

In the first few rounds, Ward was overtaken by the magnitude of the situation. He's a man who mentally preoccupies himself with the thoughts of greatness, and this was that fight that makes him the great fighter. He hadn't fought an elite opponent in a long, long time on top of this. Ward came back with a vengeance.

Kovalev could've finished Ward but Kovalev backed off and didn't have the arsenal to be able to keep that level of activity and focus required to win rounds against Ward, up, over the course of the fight. Kovalev knows this and knows that Ward knows this.

 

I edited to add a paragraph in the middle and you replied quicker than I finished it

 

This attitude and bitterness only serves to help ward the boxer

They love powerhouses trying to muscle their way to victory plays right into their hands . Floyd did it his whole career

The more kov goes in for a knockout the easy ward will find to outbox him

Ward by wider UD this time . More clear cut this time

 

try facts not youtube

 

Pretty sure Kovalev would have done much better in the fight if Ward truly "slapped like a woman."

 

Geez ... Ward is so scared and afraid that he's taking the rematch ?

 

Reading comprehension…. you have none.

 

Rumsfeld picked Hopkins to KO Kovalev but now he is suddenly an expert on Kovalev's limitations.