Post Your Kovalev-Ward 2 scorecard here

When ones scorecard is identical to Lederman's, I think a bit of soul searching is in order

Threw out my scorecard after the KO, so not sure about the rounds, but I had it 77-75 Ward.

 

Score rounds for moving forwards and not landing anything while getting countered? No wonder so many fools thought Kovalev won the first fight. I had it Ward 6-1 before Kovalev quit.

 

Had 3 clear Kova rounds, 2 clear Ward rounds, 2 even rounds that I learnt a bit more towards Kova for one, and Ward for the other. So maybe 4-3 Kova, 5-2 Kova, or 4-3 Ward.

 

R1 Kovalev
R2 Kovalev
R3 Kovalev
R4 Ward
R5 Ward
R6 Even
R7 Even

Had Kovalev up by a point going into the eight.

 

I preferred the work from Andre Ward. Thought Ward eeked out the 1st round, but scoring that for Kovalev was reasonable. From memory, I thought round 2 went to Kovalev, round 3 went to Ward, round 4 was a clear round to Ward. Round 5 was damn close, very even, Kov probably edged it with volume but the better punches from Ward. 6 and 7 can't remember. I mean it was one of those fights where I could see why someone was giving rounds to Kov but the better more quality punches were from Ward. Better variety and every time the ref broke them and they restarted, Ward would set up a big punch. While Kov started with landing the power jabs early in the fight, starting I think in round 4 Ward started landing jabs of his own, and he was ducking down and timing Kov perfectly. In terms of P4P, Ward is CLEARLY more skilled than Kovalev, I mean it's not even close. Kovalev though is more rangy and can fight form distance. Also one thing that became abundantly clear tonight is that Ward has a much better chin than Kovalev. Just all around Ward is better. Yes some of the shots that hurt Kovalev were borderline, however none of them were clearly low. Ward clearly landed the better harder, more quality LEGAL punches in the fight. While Kovalev landed slightly more overall punches.

 

Didn't have an actual scorecard, but I had kov ahead. You could kind of tell the fight was gonna turn though.

 

Rounds 1-3 were hard to score, I mean they could each have been 10-10 rounds. Round 4 was clear to Ward, round 5 another close one. 6 and 7 would have to watch again. I mean this is the problem with not having even rounds (and Max even talked about even rounds prior to the bout) is that you have guys like Lederman just giving Kovalev a huge lead while the fight is essentially even. The only clear rounds probably of the entire fight was round 4 to Ward and possibly Round 2 to Kovalev. Otherwise you have a very difficult time picking a winner in a round. It's all what you prefer. But personally I preferred Ward because Ward was landing the best puncehs of the round. I mean who do you score it for, a guy that lands slightly more glancing average puncehs, or the guy who lands less punches but the punches they landed are quality, of a great variety and meaningful. In rounds that close I prefer the guy who lands the absolute best punches in a round even if he lands less.

 

Round 1 Kova
Round 2 Kova
Round 3 Kova
Round 4 Ward
Round 5 Ward
Round 6 Kova
Round 7 Ward
Round 8 Krushed.

Something like that, I think Kova had better output first few rounds mainly outworking Andre despite Andre having the more eye catching shots. Ward however started to get abit more urgent and really started to punnish Kova to his body.

 

rounds 1,3 where really close and I think they could have easily gone to Ward.

 

I HAVE TO WATCH A FIGHT A MINIMUM OF THREE TIMES BEFORE SCORING. THAT GETS RID OF ALL BIAS PREJUDICE AND EMOTIONAL SCORING. WILL POST LATER