I watched the ref allow Alexis Arguello to be beaten to an inch from death, but Kov gets stopped?

That was Nov. 12th 1982, Duk Koo Kim vs Mancini happened on Nov. 18th 1982. Also, back then you still had the standing eight count. One of the only places you'll see the standing eight count any more is New York. Almost everywhere else, and this includes Vegas where the fight was held, the ref can only stop the fight if he thinks a fighter is getting beat up on the ropes. This helps to prevent cases like the Benny Paret/Emile Griffith III situation where Paret got held up by the ropes and died.

I miss the old ways of doing things where fighters were allowed to fight and refs gave them a chance to come back, but more and more the refs hands are tied and we error on the side of caution, which leads to many early stoppages. Tony Weeks didn't have any other tools in his tool belt to deal with the situation if he wasn't going to call a foul. He saw what he considered a fighter in distress and he made a call, a bad call, but an understandable one.

 

no need to get brutally ktfo, the ref protected kovalev, he wasnt defending

 

I think that part of the problem of inconsistency is how boxers adjust their shorts a lot, which can move the strike zone so to speak. Sometimes the shorts aren't the best indicator of where the beltline is. Remember Lewis vs Holyfield I where Lewis' camp demanded that Holyfield lower his shorts and then pulled Lewis' trunks up to his nipples? There's some shenanigans that go on. Kovalev was adjusting his trunks a bit before the lowblows so it's possible that Tony Weeks thought he was trying to fake a foul like Bernard Hopkins has been known to do from time to time.

 

Will you continue to ignore all the facts even proven by video and photo evidence just because of race? You are truly pathetic

 

Eat a dick loser.

 

Stanley Christodoulou was rightly criticized at the time for allowing Arguello to take unnecessary punishment when Flaco was done for at least a few seconds before.

 

Classy answer, but I got the answer. You are a racist troll

 

Didn't I say eat a dick? You must be swallowing instead of chewing lol...

 

Abspolute BULL FECES !!!!!! These punches were DELIBERATE FOULS !!
Ward knew Wilks wouldnt call it. I believe Wilks saw they were low & he had two choices
1 Call them low rake a point & give Kov 5 mins to recover
or
2 Follow his script Ward 'wins" by stoppage.
Wilks proved he is no better than Cortez , Bayless or Williams all Vegas officials obviously have a price

 

This would be fine if for the fact that you said weeks called pbf-maidana right down the middle. In a fight in which Maidana fouled pbf much more than ward did to kovalev. Yet you have no problems with weeks in pbf-maidana but bash weeks in ward-kovalev.

 

Ward should be warned for all the body blows in round 8.
The lack of warning resulting we have the conversation today.
I have just watched hagler and Mugabi fight the other day. The action got very heated I think in round 6 and a few of hagler punches stray a bit down, not as bad as Ward mind you.
And Mills Lane lunged into the mid of the action and warned hagler to keep it up.
Great refereeing.
Tony weeks was right in front of the infriction and he completely blew it IMHO. I am short from calling him corrupt, I think he just had a bad night in the office.

 

Bingo!

I didn't agree with Malignaggi's analysis of the fight, but even who is partial to Ward's style was of the opinion that the stoppage was bull****. In Malignaggi's point of view, you don't stop a fight like that when obiviously low blows have just been landed well below the belt and was the reason Kovalev bent over in distress.
That's pretty logical to see even for someone who has a bias for Ward.

 

The difference between AA and Kov, besides an infinite rift of skill, was AA's heart! AA wasn't cowering in fake pain from a tap on the belt line like Kov did, not once, but several times. Kov demonstrated several times that he did not want to be in there with BOG (Beast of God). AA was a real warrior, not just a guy with a punch that folds when his opponent keeps fighting back round after round.

In the future, never, never, never, never, never, never, ever, ever, ever compare Kovalev with Alexis Arguello!