Kovalev is a real fighter who will fight anyone, ANYWHERE, at anytime. He doesn't need to stack the deck and cheat and foul incessantly to get the job done. CoWard's style is heavily reliant on the excessive use of dirty tactics and him ALWAYS having home referees, whether they be hometown, home state or home country is absolutely pivotal to his continued success. Would he fight Kovalev in Russia? How about in Russia with a Russian ref? Or what about in Russia with a Russian ref and 1 Russian judge? Or with 2 Russian judges? Or 3? He'd never agree to even fight him in Russia with a Russian ref in a billion years. But forget Russia how's about Adonis or Beterbiev in Canada with a Canadia ref and 3 Canada judges. And every single one of you knows it too so STFU. Try and get this through your thick heads once and for all - Having a home referee everytime you step foot into a ring is a MASSIVE advantage for a filthy dirty fighter like him whose entire fighting style is built around and is heavily reliant on the excessive use of ILLEGAL tactics. This isn't rocket science. The vast majority of things that he does to avoid getting hit are illegal. That's just his defence never mind all all other filthy stuff he does when he's attacking. CoWard has had American referees for every single one of his pro fights and Californian ones for IIRC something like 23 of them. Let that sink in. The rules of the Super Six explicitly stated that the officials were supposed to come from neutral locations that didn't happen with CoWard or any of the other Americans in it when they fought at home. Arthur Abraham's team threatened to pull Abe out when he fought CoWard because of this because they tried to appoint a Californian ref for the fight. They had to replace him with another one, see if you can guess which 'neutral' country he came from? He's had a ridiculous amount of home judges too. Miranda in Oakland Kessler in Oakland Allan Green in Oakland Sakio Bika in Oakland Abraham in California (CoWard's home state) Froch in Atlantic city (CoWard's home country) Dawson in Oakland Rodriguez in California Paul Smith in Oakland Sullivan Barrera in Oakland Brand in Oakland Kovalev 1 in the US Kovalev 2 in the US Which completes his 100% record of always having home advantage and the deck stacked heavily in his favour every time he's fought against world class opposition. Every single time you ****** morons. Bring your titles to me, come face me in my hometown, home state, home country but god forbid I should ever have to come to your hometown or play by the same set of rules I expect everyone else to play by but refuse to do Something like 23 of his 31 fights have been fought in his home state. When he fought Miranda all the officials were from California. Kessler - referee and one judge from California Green - referee and one judge from California Bika - referee and two judges from California Abraham - referee American, one judge from California. Froch - referee American, one judge American. Dawson - two Californian judges. Rodriguez - referee and all three judges from California Paul Smith - referee from California, all three judges from California too. Barrera - referee and all three judges from California Brand - referee and all 3 judges from California Kovalev - referee and all 3 judges from the US (one of them was from Cali, too) Kovalev 2 - referee and all 3 judges from the US The referee and all the judges were from California for pretty much (if not all) all his fights in his home state prior to the Super Six fights too, and as stated 23 of his 31 fights have been fought in his home state. So he's had a Cali ref and 3 Cali judges for most of his fights in his home state.
So guys really think ward fight beterbiev or Stevenson if he wins tonight all about opinons (no race crap man ). But just can't see it as above guy posted he seems get a lot in his favour and isn't fan friendly boring watch and dirty fights. Not taking away his skills or achievement in anyway just would like see kov win as I think he would call out Stevenson. If u said right now one of kov or Ward would (after tonight win ) go over fight in Canada against beterbiev and. Stevenson who would it be ??
So a man who fought and beat Froch, Kessler and Abraham moved up in weight and beat arguably pound for pound the baddest man on the planet and gives him a rematch, has no ambition?
CoWard has already flat out ducked Adonis. An irrefutable cast-iron duck and everytime someone broaches the subject of him fighting him he shoots it down and makes excuses. Still to this day he does it. I can provide plenty of proof of all this. Now what gets me is the Wardo/anti-GGG brigade keep crucifying GGG for ducking CoWard but you simply cannot level that accusation at GGG and then turn round and say CoWard didn't duck Adonis. It just doesn't hold any weight at all. You just cannot do it and be taken seriously. And the only thing they need to understand about that 'offer' CoWard sent Team GGG is, other than it being a publicity stunt that is, not only wouldn't any fighter have agreed to it in a million years if they were in the same position GGG was at that time, but.. and here comes the irony and by god is it pushing the irony meter to its maximum capacity.. CoWard is literally one, if not the (and I'm leaning towards the and with plenty of good reason too) last fighters on the planet who would of agreed to it if he was in the same position and everyone knows goddamn well he wouldn't have. And there is no credible argument that can be made to counter that.
Where the fuk is ward black??? He looks more like a white boy that stayed in the sun for too long then some black kid. You are the racist. Its like obama beeing called black. No african would ever call ward a black guy
Stop lying to posters you ****en clown. Put a ****en clown suit in and post a pic of yourself in your avy you lying scumbag.
Ward will fight anyone for sure but with Ward, it has to make sense financially, he's not gonna take huge risks unless he's properly financially compensated and tbh you can't really knock him for that. With Kovalev that ain't really the case as much. Like I don't see Ward fighting someone like Beterbiev to be honest or Gvozdyk..
But to be honest, this for the good of boxing crap doesn't really even enter my mind, may the best man win and end the arguments. This time hopefully it's clear cut.
Ward is a diva when it comes to negotiations, But i don't blame him, boxing businesses is shady as ****, would rather do it wards way they be exploited by kathy duva.
I'd be more interested in hearing on what you thought of wards ring attire for all of those fights to be perfectly honest.
I couldn't agree more. All these so called kovalev fans won't give him a dime when he's done with the sport and in need of some money.
Before he faced Kovalev I would have said he'd have ducked them all. Right now I believe he'd take those fights if the Benjamins are right. Still think Beterbiev beats the crap out of him though, maybe Stevenson too.
That made me lol I've never uttered a bad word about his ring attire. To be honest I haven't really paid it any attention, but that's a good thing because it means it must be fairly decent or at least not too bad. So no one can say that I'm not fair. Kovalev's ring attire is usually if not always of a high standard. He always looks cool and his CCA is impeccable.