''I admit Andre Ward was better in the rematch. I give him credit, he did his homework with an ''A'' and showed his discipline and proffesionalism. But he didnt put and end to our clash, I fought with two people in the ring'' I will be Back!'' So before advocate cheating and lowshots, and what KRUSHER should have done to make it a fairer contest, we have to issue the fact that was a very week stoppage, and kovalev should have been allowed to have 5mins recovery time. Look KRUSHER was stunned and recovered, Ward swarmed him, he didnt really hurt from then on after, KRUSHER was tired not hurt, just a bruised pubic bone, and possibly damaged testicles. It was a shoddy stoppage, and ive gave Ward his credit, he deserves it for looking sharper and outlasting KRUSHER, He showed great toughness, Better timing this time round, But that stoppage come on Now, do me a favour! awaiting Crying face emoticons...
I love Kovalev, but some of his fans (not you OP as I didnt see enough from you) are down right weirdos.
Kovalev had his chance to "krush" Ward, to end his career, he was supposed to destroy Ward; he failed, was all talk, wasn't up to the task. Move on. Only one low shot in the 8th, btw, when Kovalev was trying moon the crowd. The rest have been proven to be on the belt line.
I respect Kovalev for that, He also made another post in Russian that roughly translates to: "GOD DOES NOT GIVE YOU THE PEOPLE WHICH YOU WANT. HE GIVES YOU THE PEOPLE IN WHICH YOU ARE FORCED. THEY CAN BRING THE PAIN OR LOVE, THEY LEARN YOU, BREAK YOU TO TURN YOU TO WHOM YOU SHOULD BE." It sounds like kovalev is taking this as a valuable learning experience rather than just making excuses. I agree that it was a premature stoppage ( the low shots are arguable tho), but i belive ward would have knocked him out anyway, not only that but i believe ward would have knocked him out earlier in the fight aswell at this point.... https://imgur.com/h2vj9Z5 That said, respect to kovalev, He talked a lot of **** before the fight about how he was going to end wards career, ward punches like a girl, he wants to have fun inflicting pain on him, laughed at him training for the KO etc. I don't hold grudges if somebody is man enough to admit the other fighter was better on the night and it seems kovalev has at least partly if not fully admitted to this and for that he gets my respect. We all make mistakes, we have all said **** we wish we didn't, The main thing is we live learn and become better. Nobody is perfect. Personally i wouldn't mind the trilogy. Not because i think ward needs to do it, just because it would go down as one of the classic drama filled trilogy's of all time just based of the controversy.
Ditto I'm a huge fan of what he does in the ring and I'll admit its difficult to appreciate his boxing ability when some of his fans preach either blatant hate, intolerance, weak/misinterpreted conspiracy theories and plain denial it becomes frustratingly clear there's no compromising with them. It's unfortunate because some of them truly do love the sport but they are blinded by infactuations with only certain fighters.
He's using that quote to simply state. *I had to deal with Ward, but never wanted to. They can bring you pain or love. In this instance broken testicles. Now he's saying at the end he's learned from this experience, and its made him a much better man for it."
To show you what kind of man Ward is, after the third body shot when Kov was on the ropes, he stopped punching him. When Weeks stopped the fight Ward was just hovering over Kovalev. If he was a dirty fighter, he still would have been punching. He knew his job was done and there was no need for further punishment.
No they werent. First they were nowhere near his testicles and two Weeks clearly states before the fight that the belt line is ok, below is a low blow. Other than the last irrelevant shot of the fight please show me one clear low blow.
He's not giving props to anyone. He's just making excuses again and threatening us with another fight faking and giving his back to ward. Kowardlev is a disgrace. I dont know how can he sleep at night after knowing everybody watched him faking, giving his back and now crying and making excuses. Sergey "this is my back" Kowardlev.
What a fighter after getting fouled he didn't hit Ward low to retaliate.Very impress with Eastern block boxers .I do think that Kovalev had every right to hit Ward low.He should of fouled him back to even things up.
