The Judges Were Actually Scoring It For Ward!

Ward was ahead

 

I think after 19 scored rounds between the two men it should be clear to Team Kovalev that they may not get fair judging in the USA against Andre Ward.

That's my feeling.

 

How much did RocNation spend on rigging Kovalevs glass chin? That right hand sure seemed to have him in all kinds of trouble, I guess Jay Z employed some pretty talented special fx artists.

 

Lol!! That's a FACT. It's sooo obvious now.

 

Where did weeks say he made a mistake? More fake news?

Oh fyi, Kovalev's own trainer said it was close, and Duva said nothing about Kovalev dominating the fight up to it, she said she wasn't scoring the fight. If Kovalev was clearly winning you'd think the promoter would say that now wouldn't you.

 

How do you figure that? He was up by 3 points on one judges scorecard, while the two other judges had it a 1 point margin in favor of Ward.

 

So, in the first fight I'd say like 66-75% of observers felt Kovalev won.

In the second fight, Kovalev was up like +21 in punches landed through 7 rounds yet he was down on two scorecards.

Things do not seem in his favor with the USA judges. I would imagine that things might look different with international judging and much different with Russian judging.

 

Thought Kovalev was controlling the fight well with the jab. Think I had him a round up at the time of the stoppage.

 

same as it ever was...if ur feels are hurt, seeya....

 

You're acting like this was an easy to score fight. Rounds 1-3 and 5 could have went either way. Kov was landing more but Ward was landing the better, harder, quality punches with more variety including body punches, hooks, etc. Kov was just landing basic jabs and straight rights rinse and repeat. And you still had Lederman giving nearly every round to Kovalev. Ward was the far more dynamic skilled puncher in there and Kov was still in the fight, so I don't know how you can conclude that Kov can't get a fair shake vs Ward. He was being duly rewarded for his rounds won over the first half of the first fight, he had a commanding lead proving that he was getting a fair shake, but then he self admittedly tired after round 5 of the first fight and Ward made a comeback in some very close hard-to-score rounds.

 

No he was not, at least not until Round 8.

I had the exact same card as Lederman and the one judge.

If you are the one coming forward, and you've thrown and landed more punches, you would have to think you're going to be ahead in the fight. And particularly in the first fight, when you also got the knockdown.

It's just not a good set-up for Kovalev.

That doesn't mean he can't overcome it, but I think things would look a lot different if one of the two fights took place in Russia.

 

The score card was terrible but it became irrelevant when ward stopped kov. If you believe that was Weeks twitter account you arent too bright. I mean come on man seriously? why would you think thats legit? When was the last time a ref admitted to blowing a call on social media? Thats career suicide. Youll get black listed so fast itll make your head spin.

 

I had Kovalev up 6-1 going into the 8th. I just can't see any logic at all for an argument that Ward was winning. Kovalev threw close to 2x as many punches, was the constant aggressor and landing an effective jab. He was even outworking Ward on the inside for stretches.

 

Now that is just ridiculous.