Ultimately it was a one sided beatdown. Trainer Roach pulled out Pascal before the 8th I think. The interview with Kovalev was cold but also funny in many ways.... See: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yMwzW5qFn1U
Seems boxing is becoming the new WWE but with real beat downs. I actually quite like these confrontations.
Anyway Bunce criticised Kovalev saying he wasn't classy (not sure how Bunce can criticise anyone for not being classy
)... Well he is a little cold, but so what - sometimes forgiveness and making up is good... But in this case, Sergey stood his ground, was not going to change his mind about Pascal's behaviour, claims and trying to embarrass and create tension with his Trainer. That's his prerogative. Remember, twice Kovalev offered his glove to Pascal after some kerfuffle and twice it was refused. So pascal it could be argued was the one who lacked class.
Anyway Sergey came from a very poor, tough background (not to mention cold...) and has to support his extended family. So he takes his business very seriously.
Also it was great to watch a whole fight without ad breaks (like Sky, even PPV
) and hearing the corner work... Which in this instance was very important as Roach was going to pull Pascal out the round before, but Jean talked Freddie into another round.Now let's get Stevenson - Kovalev on, then ward vs the Winner (Sergey I predict)
