But as you both claim they are legal shots he's not doing anything wrong. Now if the fight was like Ward/Kov 2 with multi Ward shots to Kov's groin area which are illegal including the final barrage which Kov went down from, ref Weekes called it a TKO & gave the fight to Ward. Now that deserved a DQ plus an inquiry
If only he didn't have those injuries (Shoulder in 2015/Covid), managerial/promotional problems (Yvon Michel/PBC) we would have seen Beterbiev in a world title fight after beating Cloud. Kovalev wanted to face Beterbiev in Ramadan like wtf... makes sense that Kovalev was very racist to Beterbiev in the amateurs (ethnic Russian vs 'Conquered' Chechen Russian, mind you Kovalev lost twice to Beterbiev in the amaterus), etc.. WE've been robbed of Beterbiev's prime age.