Hitting on the belt line

Belt line is the line at where the trunks start at, not a full fist under the belt line. Those were straight bladder shots , and they were thrown all night. Anything under the belly button is illegal, end of story. They were all illegal, at least a dozen, with no warnings from the ref.

 

Again for you sir....
Since you move in a boxing match your scrotum and your wee wee move around too.
It is so easy to hit slights below the belt line and too land 100% und the balls.
I have seen that a million times in ams sparring and my own. Someone throws a shot it goes slightly of the belt line and the other guy is starting to have ball pain.
What ward is doong is just low man. If you watch boxing the lowest most fighters go when they throw to the body is the belly bottum. If you aim lower then that you are really asking for a low blow. In my ams most would really just punch to the solar plexus or ripe area. If you aim the lower abs you will sooner or later land on the balls.. just a matter of time and movement

 

This is what we all need to realize so that Ward gets the credit he deserves, isn't called a cheater or a dirty fighter when he wasn't. Kov was bending over, how's he supposed to get in a body shot. Kovalev is basically making it exponentially harder to be hit by being hunched over. And he's doing that becuase he's in excruciating pain. He's protecting his body from further damage by leaning over. And Ward still appeared to land those first two on the body.

I would have been fine with a count too, rather than it being stopped. I would have liked to see it continue, but there's no way that Ward should have been penalized. Kov should not have been given 5 minutes or anything like that. He should either have been stopped, given a count, or the ref could have simply called for a break. Kovalev was pretty much done, and this is what people need to realize, rather than just ***** and moan about how Ward is a dirty fighter. Such crybaby BS!

 

Notice how no one mentions all of the intentional guillotine headlocks or rabbit punches that kovalev did the entire fight. Kovalev was hurt and gassed and was trying to over sell "low blows" to recover. He was literally leaning/sitting on the ropes before the last "illegal" blow. IMO Kovalev was quitting and looking for a bail out from the ref. Kovalev fought angry and gassed himself out once again. He did not look as prepared for the fight. Give ward his credit.

 

lol people aren't on about just the kov fight...Hes been classed as a real dirty fighter for years. One fella you need off that list is Joe Frazier too. He is the epitomy of thoroughly decent man and fighter.Cant remem ber Frazier ever being dirty. Too strong and tough mentally to be a biatch

 

Somebody explain kovalevs low blows then

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Duran v Buchanon, granted.

I can't think of a single fight in which any of the others you listed won a fight on low blows. Examples, please?

Ward hit him below the belt repeatedly and the ref completely abdicated his responsibility.

Should have been a DQ for Ward, as he didn't deduct a point to fix the problem.

 

No , thats a lie. Ward repeatably hit him with legal body blows. Only one or two were bellow the belt. All of Wards body attack is ignored like it never happened. The majority of his body shots were above or on the belt line.

 

OT here but I just remembered the fight between DLH and Vargas. DLH was wearing which looks like a padded belt well above the beltline. How did he get away with that?

 

The belt line is where the official says it is.

Weeks pointed at a point about a full fist below the beginning of the belt line and said that was a legal area to target, given that Kovalev's trunks were high. That, in essence became a legal target zone and he reiterated that in the 8th, when he audibly told Kovalev that the two shots that hurt him initially were on the belt-line (which they most certainly were).

Incidentally, the first of the three punches made contact above Kovalev's belt-line and began to fold him over. The trajectory of Ward's follow-up hooks began to drop as Kov doubled over, resulting in a belt-line shot, followed by a clear low blow.

I might not have stopped it then, but the way Kov was reacting at that point to shot to the head and body indicates that he likely wasn't lasting all that much longer anyway.

 

The ref admitted he made a mistake.