Kovalev vs Hopkins fight ?

Kovalev knocked him all over the ring. Hopkins had to use every bit of his experience and savvy to survive the full 12, which was his goal.

 

And the difference between the fights is that in 2014 Kovalev boxed like that more because of his respect to Bernard Hopkins, and now he boxed Alvarez in a similar way but the reason was completely different — Kovalev knew that his body simply could not afford to throw hard punches for all 12 rounds.

 

Kovalev basically carried Hopkins out of mercy.

 

I was at Atlantic City and saw the fight live. Hopkins did a little better than what is being described here, but not by a whole lot. But he was seriously hurt in the last round. I thought he gave a courageous effort given his ancient age (for a fighter).

 

Kovalev the proven humanitarian!

 

If Kovalev paced himself and just concentrated on boxing and not knocking Andre Ward out, he'd have won both fights comfortably.

 

Whatever makes you feel better about it.

 

How would Kovalev beat Andre Wards Judges? LMAO, even if he boxed Wards head off there is no way Ward will lose on the cards.

 

He did win the first one.

Reasonably comfortably.

 

That sounds like Hopkins in his last 20 fights.

Cheat, run away, throw a few rights with headbutsh, blame ref or ppl when u lose... done...

 

I thought he did also, but he never would have lost some of those late rounds had he just focused on boxing and not go into destroyer mode.
When you're the better boxer, going into destroyer mode and being more aggressive than you have to, give the lesser fighter the opportunity to capitalize on mistakes. Ward wouldn't have won more than 2 or 3 rounds and it would have been a lot harder for the judges to justify giving the fight to Ward.

 

Soy un gringo. Pero...