Kovalev had outlanding Ward up until the finish. Ward was up 67-66 on 2 cards and down 68-65 on the third. Ward was attacking the balls and Weeks was allowing it and it was a very poor stoppage. Although Ward was on his way to taking over. That’s not utterly outclassed.
Singled handedly Ward managed to bring the art of nut punching to a new ball field. It has bounced and hung round the whole boxing globe. It has finally come full circle. No need to beat around the bush, Ward is the master of testicular destruction.
Your testicles must be in a very strange place Don, because Wards punches were nowhere near that area. If you’d ever been hit to the solar plexus, you would know exactly why Kovalev crumpled. Had Kovalev taken a legit nut punch, he would have been rolling on the floor in agony a la Bowe vs Golota. Wards body attack that night was nothing short of superb.
Ward made kovalev to quit. I still remember kovalev's gaze to the referee asking for mercy. It was so funny that I nearly forgot kovalev dancing the judah dance. He could try as a pro dancer if vodka doesnt allow him to fight anymore, he showed real talent.
think it was in the eighth round....Ward...landed 3 to the Kovalev sack.....this is memory...don't have the fight in front of me. He was punishing Kov prior to that though. My eyes are in the correct place as are my jewels. guess he doesn't use his billy goat head for a ram either. oh, sure.
Every time Kovalev wins I hear more and more respected boxing pundits coming out and saying they thought Kov-Ward 1 went to Kovalev. To cap a great resume with a highly suspect decision and a very unsatisfactory TKO win in the rematch is not good. If Kovalev got the decision in the first fight, and Ward went on to defeat him in the rematch with no low blows, Ward's resume would currently be stronger. A destruction of Canelo and another good win could prove the Krusher greater historically.
I agree. Although I had Ward winning at the time of the stoppage, I didn't feel at any point that he was "outclassing" Kovalev. That, to me, reads like so much revisionist piffle.
Why do people say this? There's video, we can see this isn't true. The second fight was extremely close most of the way. Then you have questionable low blows that would have been called in almost every other fight. But even if they were all legit, it was a close fight with an emphatic ending but utterly outclassed is a stretch.
