Remembering A Peak Sergey Kovalev

Humiliation is what my man Danny Green did to RJJ

 

Absolutely.

If someone had told you in the late 90’s that Roy would have lost to a guy like Danny, you’d have wanted them put in the fun house.

 

Are you saying Bernard Hopkins, James Toney, Mike McCallum, Vergil Hill, Antonio Tarver, Felix Trinidad, Vinny Pazienza, Montell Griffin, Reggie Johnson were taxi drivers / tomato cans?

 

Yes tell is how many times Roy was knocked out in his first 50 fights.

Can I play this game as well and say Kovalev wouldn't be table to take Roys power, considering he got 1 punch knocked out by a blown up 154 pounder?

 

All beast.

 

I think GGG was fine but Kovalev, I don't think he was an overly disciplined guy before the loss, seems like the type of dude who's really in it for the paycheck than love of the sport. Got paid and put hard work to the backseat, story as old as the sport itself.

 

Kovalev should have fought Stevenson. One of the big fights that never happened. I think Kovalev would have won/ stopped Stevenson.

 

Ward took his soul to a degree, I think. Those two fights cast doubt about how well Kovalev would have done in difficult fights where things were going against him. Good job of picking himself up after being badly hurt by Yarde, though.

 

No one who's watched the fight really think the last blow was in any way was decisive or changed things in any way. That's just a line that's been made up.

 

Many people do.

I can remember the outrage.

 

Me too. But I have a hard time believing they really do. Even they must know they're just hanging on to something.

 

He CLEARY outboxed Ward tho.. that wasn't even a close fight. Then the cards were read out.. that is probably when Kovalev went to ****.. when boxing screwed him, don't think it was all Ward necessarily .. when you get screwed over like that and have to regroup some people thrive off it & some are ruined.. he never really looked the same again.. even when he beat the likes of Alvarez and Yarde.. so I think it's a combination of factors as to what happened with him.. Drink, boxing politics & mental discipline. When Ward low blowed him he should have returned in kind ... even if hed have been DQd.. Ward wants street rules fk it give it him back.. what did he have to lose? Hed been screwed anyway.. but he didnt.. that's why I'm not one that moans about the second fight.. The first yes, second no.. because everybody knows what they are dealing with with Andre Ward they know he's a dirty fighter so they should prepare for it and if necessary start returning in kind .. SK clearly didn't therefore its his own fault that loss.. especially after the first fight they should have prepared for every single outcome. What I do remember from the time though is all wasn't well with his trainer Jackson apparently.. there were rumblings of Kovalev sidelining him in training & Jackson then reaching out to Wards team behind his back... that probably wouldn't have helped his mindset if true but i dunno the ins & outs.. he will be a hall of fame fighter but I think his career could have given us more, Stevenson fight should have happened and I think almost to every man and his dog the opinion is he has a win over Ward.

 

That's another part of the hysteria with this coping. It was a close fight, no robbery. An actual robbery was Holy-Lewis 1 or Pea-Ramirez 1. Guess what happened in those rematches btw?

Kovalev was just shaken by how well Ward came back from a tough start. When the same thing happened in the rematch but only earlier he was starting to break.

Good for his fans that the fight ended like it did. Had Weeks given Ward a warning and Kovalev enough time to recover to survive the round, Ward would have broken him down badly when action resumed and there would be no ready made excuses. Kovalev was struggling even before Ward hurt him, no way he would have recovered from being battered around the ring like that. He would have gone down hard.

 

I don't understand people saying that it wasn't a close fight.

That's ridiculous.