Eléyder Álvarez Baytar vs. Sergey Alexandrovich Kovalev II & Óscar Valdez vs. Carmine Tommasone RBR

I thought 3,6,and 7 could go to Alvarez. after 8 or so I stopped scoring. there was one other round that seemed close-ish maybe 11

I was ok with the 12-0 sweep despite thinking Alvarez could have been given 2 rounds if not 3

I didnt think kovalev had that type of fight left in him. I was expecting him to get stopped again.

now like the first fight alvarez's jab did get in kind of easily when he threw it and did snap kovalevs head back but the right hand was not prevalent enough though he landed a few good ones

kovalev moved so well away from the punch and just kept peppering him with singles rather than home runs

I would like to see Alvarez and co discuss the loss and learn more about their prep and sparring partners because they looked completely unprepared for the mobile and more busy kovalev who fought more of a point scoring fight

 

Kovalev didn't even look very good but Alvarez flat out stunk thought he'd get the KO despite not being a puncher. I had it 116-112 Kovalev but it felt like a wide 116-112

 

I think Alvarez won at least 3 rounds but at the end of the day Kovalev won. but, buddy mcgirt even called it a close fight. even though it wasn't close. to be fair the rounds Kovalev lost alvarez hit him with good jabs or good body shots in the first moments and instead of trying to win the rounds Kovalev kept distance. which was smart but I woulndt say it won him the rounds but it DID save him from using energy to get a round or 4 back that he lost.

 

After re-watching the fight, Alvarez only won 3 rounds on my scorecard (3, 7, 11).

 

there was a late round 10th or 11th that alvarez had his idea of going for it while. the word schooling is weird because I don't even know what it was, when Alvarez threw a punch he landed. he didn't miss many shots very high accuracy 50% power landed but he just didn't throw, he just waited for the perfect shot the whole fight??

I mean when there was the lead up to the fight I was picking a ko for ALvarez then once I heard his trainer was buddy I knew that Kovalev would not get a ko victory... or even go for the KO so I was thinking... okay it might go 12 then... if it goes 12 and alvarez goes for the KO
Kovalev will win a tedious fight. and without context that fight was Tideous.

I also have to say. almost everyone in alvarez vs Kovalev 1 said "ko 4" or "early KO"

and in the rematch everyone that picked Kovalev said early Ko even cst80 said KO 4 which I never seen Kovalev koing alvarez. credit to buddy McGirt. but Alvarez just messed up his futurure badly. he would have had 7 fights for 7 figures.... and he fought like THAT?!?

 

I gave him one more but hey 3,7,11 are rounds I gave too!
there fore I say excellent score card.