So if Ward won the fight definitively, why did...

hey this happens a lot in the US and around the world, nothing knew, most people knew kov would not get a decision in this fight, ward is a protected fighter, just like most/all US undefeated highprofile fighters are in america, the same would happen in russia, ward would not get a decision there IF he won the fight, which he DID NOT by the way, so yeah a robbery but not suprising

 

Everybody is entitled to their opinion, but they don't always see everything. The viewers at home always have the best seat in the house!

 

If Kovalev was given the decision 116-111, I think it is in the realm of possibility.

Boxing scoring is subjective it was a close fight could have gone either way

CEJ beat BJS in a more decisive fashion and nobody complained when he was robbed, they applauded it

 

Courageous performance from Ward, but he lost. Kovalev conttol the distance from start to finish, the threat of kov right hand keep ward honest.

 

If you give all the swing competitive rounds to Ward you have 114-113 card for ward.
If you give those rounds to kov you have 116-111 for kov.
My honest opinion is people who score for a Ward win are slightly bias. Good fight none the less

 

Ward has a lot of haters

Abel and gg were doing most of the booing

They have big mouths

 

Classic, do you have a gif, that would be funny as hell

 

And you have shyte posts....

 

Good Lord you are an idiot.

 

Well it wasn't definitive. It was an extremely close fight.

The crowd aren't necessarily sitting down with a pencil scoring the fight.

The crowd don't necessarily know how to score a fight correctly.

The crowd is not always impartial.

I disagree that anywhere else the result would have been different. There have been unpopular/controversial decisions in other places too. Most of the rounds were extremely close and could be given to either fighter depending on a judge/observers subjective opinion. In such a fight the same result or a different result could have happened anywhere imo.

Also Ward may have "looked defeated" because he has higher expectations of himself and was disappointed in how he fought victory and the fact that he was dropped. Has no real bearing on whether he deserved to win, lose or draw. People who clearly lost often hold their hands up and celebrate at the end of fights thinking they've won and then seem all bewildered when they realize they lost. Means nothing.

I agree that overall in boxing the judging isn't good/fair enough.

 

This.

My opinion of Ward went up, it was very impressive the way he bounced back after two awful rounds at the start. But I don't think he did enough to win the fight.

Think Ward has a good chance for the rematch though, his adjustments were impressive.

 

I'm a big fan of Kovalev actually, so if you're going to snoop around on me at least look at my post history from last year. I know it may take some time though.

 

I honestly think Kova should've won a close decision or a draw, but it was a very close fight.

To be fair the real robbery was Hooker - Perez. That was ABSOLUTELY garbage.