Alvarez Beat Kovalev in Spectacular fashion, what does that say about Ward's 2 fights?

How was he better when he was on the drink?

 

I gave ward credit for the rematch and the heart he showed in the first fight to climb back up from the canvas. However you should know by now that things are not black and white in boxing and sure enough with anything in life there are complexities, grey areas and contexts that we have to consider if we wish to put things in their proper perspective

And once we analysis what actually took place during the fights and what what was witnessed and agreed upon amongst the pundits, commentators, fellow fighters, journalists,news feeds and fans alike, we eventually reach a consensus.

And the consensus is that what transpired was questionable officiating, dubious scorecards, disgusting illegal fouls of every kind imaginable a long with witnessing the first ever low blow KO stoppage in boxing.

From every single possible angle we look at the fight from, we see nothing but corruption. Only if we were to close our eyes and mute the commentary would we stand a chance of not seeing/hearing of any of the blatant fouls and the stand down job of the ref so Ward could do as he pleases.

Did we see anything questionable of a similar magnitude last night? Maybe there was the accidental head clash on Alverez that could have been called against SK. Other than that it was a clean fight, where we the viewers/audience are left without any doubt that the best man won on the night. That for me and many others - a victory like that trumps a controversial one that is heavily influenced by partisan officiating.

 

Regardless whether he was going to knock out Kovalev it doesn't negate the fact that he broke the rules.

If a fighter is stunned from a legal punch and is the the verge of getting knocked down, it doesn't then give the opponent the right to deliver a headbuttfor the finishing blow and then we later say he just needed to calm down.

What we say and what would normally happen is that the fighter who blatantly headbutts or low blows would get points deducted or disqualified especially when it is blatant.

We've seen fighters fall down from low blows and the ref disqualifies the culprit

In your opinion did or should've Golota won this fight when he had Bowe in similar position to Kovalev and finished Bowe off with a low blow?

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That doesn't make any sense.

Ward was landing low blows throughout the fight as well and he was warned initially but then the warnings stopped.

There is nothing different from Golota's finishing low blow which knocked down Bowe, the only difference is Golota was rightly disqualified for it just as Ward should have been

Ward won on corruption. This cannot be disputed. You can spin it as much as you like, the cold hard fact is, based on the rules of boxing he should have been either deducted a point or disqualified. Or SK should have been given a standing 8 count. However many of you argue he was not in a state to continue and so Ward should have been disqualified according to the official rules of Boxing


9.1. After a low blow, if the offended Boxer does not complain and the low blow was not hard and intentional,
the Referee must signal the foul without interrupting the Bout

after a low blow, if the offended Boxer complains about the severity of the low blow, the Referee will have
two (2) options:
9.2.1.
The offending Boxer will be immediately disqualified if it is an intentional and hard blow.
9.2.2.
Start an eight (8) count.
9.3. After the eight (8) count, the Referee will have (2) options:
9.3.1.
The Boxer is fit to continue: the Referee will give a warning to the offender and the Bout will
9.3.2.
The Boxer is unfit to continue: the Referee will give a certain amount of time to the Boxer to try
to recover with a maximum of up to one (1) minute and a half.