How can you give Ward 6 rounds of that fight?

You give Ward 6 rounds he still loses. Somehow judges gave him 7.
He came back great and for that I take my hat off but he didn't win the fight.

 

I can't. Maximum I could give him on my "flexible" scorecard is 5 rounds.

I can't get to 6.

 

Well the judges gave him 7 actually. I agree, I think you have to reach too much to give him 7.

 

You'd have to be giving Ward everything, which I guess is what the judges did.

 

I agree with you, actually. I don't even want to show my friends this fight because they felt that Porter vs Thurman was a robbery but understood that it could go either way and they handled it better because it was a great fight. This would...probably make them quit the sport I just got them back into.

 

I had $100 on Ward so I can't complain he won. But I also know in my heart Kovalev took that fight

 

Ward knew his judges would support him, all he had to do was hold, no points for holding, landing fewer punches, getting knocked down. No wonder the crowd booed the decision................................................

 

Ok, on Compubox (see the thread) Ward gets to 6 rounds.

But Kovalev still should win the fight 114-113 with the knockdown, if you believe those Compubox stats.

 

How do you give Kovalev 7?

 

Only in vegas

 

Not sure what fight you watched but Kovalev doesn't have a x3 multiplier on his punches landed. Ward outlanded him most rounds of the fight, and in the second half of the fight Kovalev thought hew as a freestyle wrestler instead of a boxer. Kovalev doesn't get points for wrestling, and while he is wrestling he wasn't being offensive. It's Kovalev's own fault he lost. He didn't even follow his corners instructions due to stubborness.

 

Ward won that fight. I thought the judges were generous to Kovalev.

 

He only needed to win 6, and he clearly won the first two. The next 10 were closer, but Kovalev clearly did enough to win at least four of them. I thought he won the majority of them.