Ward will comfortably beat Kovalev in the rematch

Kovalev beat him the last 3 rounds (mostly), so I'm not sure about figuring him out. Kovalev beat Pascal easier in his rematch too, so whose to say he will adapt to Ward easier? He already nullified Wards inside game clinch, all he needs is to cut the ring better.

 

If I were Ward, I might avoid a rematch. Especially if it's not held in the USA.

Kovalev is going to be coming for blood next time.

You could see Kovalev get very angry later in the fight. He was pissed. He is one fighter who fights well when he's mad.

Ward should think hard about a rematch.

 

I think Kovalev will go all out for the knockout next time. He knows he has no choice.

He didn't look troubled post-fight, and said he didn't push to finish it because he felt he was winning and wanted to show his boxing ability.

 

Correct.

My own scorecard and Harold Lederman's had Kovalev winning 3 of the final 4 rounds of the fight. Ward took the 11th.

 

Kovalev will exercise his rematch clause. Ward will refuse to fight him ... because he doesn't want to get beaten up again.

At least one of the three orgs will insist Ward make a mandatory first. (Probably the WBA, because they're the worst).

Ward will keep the WBA belt and ditch the rest.

They won't fight again. Ward got beat up tonight. His swelling will only get worse as the hours go by tonight.

He got flattened. He got beat up. And he escaped with a gift.

He isn't doing that again.

 

I did not have the HBO feed when I watched the fight (had British one), so I had no idea he and I scored the fight almost exactly the same.

I had the sound down when I watched and scored, but I could see the crowd going nuts when they thought Ward did something. That may have influenced the judges.

But maybe I and Harold, and you, were looking at different criteria. It happens.

 

Ward did better as the fight went on, up UNTIL round 10. At around round 10 the fight evened out as Kovalev started to landed some punches again and seemed to hurt Ward at times again. They were still competative don't get me wrong, however Ward so no longer outboxing Kovalev like a few rounds prior. I had Kovalev winning 2 of the last 3 rounds.

Regardless i'm already seeing the myths of these fight come about? By myth I mean that certain things people claim aren't true. People have the thought that Kovalev won early but then Ward took over late, which isn't exactly what happened. It was more Kovalev early, Ward finally got going at rn5, then by rd 9-10 it evened out and both were landing.

 

I also scored the 9th for Kovalev.

The crowd got pumped up when Kovalev backed into the ropes, but Ward didn't hit him to put him there. I thought the crowd overreacted to what they thought Ward was doing. I could see the crowd stand up, even though I could not hear them.

To be fair, CompuBox gave Ward the 9th in punches landed.

 

Agree, it will be a load of b/s and time wasted. It is always is with Ward.