Was Sergey Kovalev Already Past His Best By The time Of Ward 1?

Not sure, but he won that fight.

 

I think the problem with a lot of Eastern European fighters is that they think they can win every fight by showing up in shape and use their very good skills.

But they don’t understand the whole A side B side game. And then they get ****ed.

First time Kovalev did not understand that. Second time he did understand that but he did not know what to do about it, and it mentally broke him.

 

I did think at the time it was a bad move for him to rematch Ward. He got ****ed the first time. So what did he think was going to happen the second time?

Most people believed Kovalev won, he should not have allowed Ward any oxygen, keep his head high and fight other options.

 

I was at the first fight and I thought Kovalev won but it went downhill after that. I think that fight was the beginning to the end.

 

He won the first & got blatantly robbed by the Ward/ Weekes combination in the Testes assault combination in the rematch. Ward should have been DQ'd. Maybe it wouldn't have seemed so obvious if Weekes hadn't cautioned Ward in round one when he dropped one south of the border with a " Keep em up Andre OK"
Then he totally ignored theWard barrage I wonder Why lol

 

I thought he peaked before he fought Ward. He didn't fight aa destructively by that point in time.

 

That was not a peak Kovalev, but still very dangerous. After the 2nd Ward fight he looked way past it until the Canelo fight, where he looked unable to pull the trigger anymore.

 

You could see problems when he fought Chilemba. He really struggled in that match and he definitely seemed past his peak by then.

 

There's absolutely no way Ward won that fight. Kovalev was robbed blind. And I don't think he was past it. The second fight was even when Ward started bombing his balls to be fair. Ward is dirty **** and Weeks is trash.

 

Yeah, that's why Ward fought him. There was that fight in Russia where Kov didn't look so great, got a KD but faded. Ward thought he'd lost something, so wanted the fight.

This is how these boxers operate, particularly defensive ones, they pretend to be warriors but actually they're opportunists. So many times we see them waiting for the fighter to slip before making the fight. This was one of those times. Obviously Canelo preyed on Kovalev after he'd slipped much more.

 

being victim of the crime of the century robbed him of his will.