Tony Weeks: Incompetent or outright corrupt?

[Freedom2013]

They get refs with formerly good reps like Weeks here or Joe Cortez and many others, and they go to Las Vegas and the mob pays them enough and makes them "offers they can't refuse", and voila you get disgraceful performances like what you saw tonight.

That would explain what we saw tonight.

[ldlamb]

You guys are sad.

You talked crap for 6 months and your guy got stopped by body shots.

Quit crying.

[Ricky_]

You guys are sad.

You talked crap for 6 months and your guy got stopped by body shots.

Quit crying.

If you think they wete body shots you have no genitals. Maybe you should rethink your post.

[imaioral]

Ward did 3 low blows and most apparent low blows were legal punches in belt line, stop saying sh.it, I think the problem was when Kovalev acted like were low blows few times when most weren't and Weeks realized that so told him to continue and in the last seconds Ward did 1 legal punch and 1 low blow, Kovalev acted like was hurt (maybe to gain some air and time as were almost KOed). IMO his acting made his loss, np with Weeks he was correct as Kov was almost dying and he preserved the fighter's health and integrity, even leaving him 1 min after brutal punch that almost made him kiss the ground.

*IMO even if it reach 12 rounds Ward would win 116-112 as Ward was damaging Kov in the body.

As far as I know this is a picture of low blows and not low blow - https://postimg.org/image/4bj6kc1a3/

[MachoTime]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLxlV5C4KHY

I didn't see the fight. The replay is brutal. B.S The ref is too stupid to be corrupt.

[Ilya Muromets]

Ward did 3 low blows and most apparent low blows were legal punches in belt line...

All of ward's low blows were just exactly that, just what your own pictures illustrate.

[Andrew Kearney]

Outright corrupt.

Probably paid off by Roc Nation (who have no problem throwing money around, they paid Ward's salary at a net loss to themselves), and told to give the American favours.

PS) The judges would have been bought out and corrupt if the fight made the distance too.

[ValMar]

Ward's constant cheating in every fight is the reason I can't give him the respect he deserves as a fighter. He's great, exceptionally talented but how am I supposed to respect a guy who can't get the job done without illegal shots, lowblows, headbutts and who gets a pass for doing so from referees?

poo like this, blatant corrupt robberies (Like Burns getting gifted a draw against Beltran a few years ago, McDonnell getting gifted a win last year and Perez getting blatantly robbed vs Hooker etc) kills my interest in the sport.

Kovalev was going to lose, no question. But that should have been a point off for Ward and Kovalev been given time to recover. I do think Ward would have stopped him legitimately in the next couple of rounds though.

An excellent post !

[imaioral]

Ward did 3 low blows and most apparent low blows were legal punches in belt line...

All of ward's low blows were just exactly that, just what your own pictures illustrate.

As far as I remember Weeks gave a fast break for the low blow Kov took. The stupid ppl saying shit as if Ward did 15 visible low blow punches like Salido did against Lomachenko.

[Ilya Muromets]

... The judges would have been bought out and corrupt if the fight made the distance too.

That goes without saying. Las Vegas boxing judges. They had Ward ahead on their scorecards. Of course.

[greg]

..he's just a HOME TOWN referee like the rest of them..welcome to the Mecca of Boxing..

[Jip]

These blacks stick together. Mayweather + bayless, ward + weeks. Floyd can do excessive holding as much as he wants against maidana, nothing happens. But ones maidana comes close to floyd to do some infighting bayless screams "brreeeaaaakkkk". Ward lands 10 low blows, no point deduction, no nothing. Kovalev gets hurt taking further low blows at the end, what does weeks do instead of taking a point from ward or giving kovalev a standing count? He waves it off, just like that.

[imaioral]

Ward's constant cheating in every fight is the reason I can't give him the respect he deserves as a fighter. He's great, exceptionally talented but how am I supposed to respect a guy who can't get the job done without illegal shots, lowblows, headbutts and who gets a pass for doing so from referees?

Hopkins and Margarito were dirty boxers, but Ward never (rarely times I saw), he was always a strategist.

[Kalan]

It was going to be a robbery one way or another... Two judges had Ward ahead in a fight he was clearly losing going into the 8th.

The video evidence of the low blows is there... Ward knew he wasn't going to be penalized by Weeks... He was probably wearing a hi-tech cup in case Kovalev retaliated.. An immediate rematch should be ordered and Moretti and Feldman called on the carpet to explain their scores..

Low blows do not score points.. They subtract points.. Weeks was in perfect position to see the final low blow that landed very low.

[Jip]

https://twitter.com/RingSide_TV/status/ ... 3372189696

Look at that. The proof. Weeks standing, looking at the low blow, waving it off like it was a regular punch. Weeks got good $$$$ from team ward. Boxing is a criminal sport!

Do you guys know how it hurts getting punches close to the genitals? A trained boxer punching you in that tegion takes out all energy. Exactly what happened in that fight. Ward got frustrated losing round after round, his face started to be swollen like in the first fight and than he started doing low blows to take energy out of kovalev. Knowing he had the ref and the judges on his side!

[Kalan]

Hopkins and Margarito were dirty boxers, but Ward never (rarely times I saw), he was always a strategist.

Bullcrap!!! ... His strategy for this fight was low blows... His strategy for the 1st fight was leveraging and pushing with his head, shoulders, and forearms.

Whenever Ward tried to box Kovalev in both fights...he got outscored... Therefore the "strategy"

[Jip]

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Kovalev was going to lose, no question. ...

Kovalev was ahead on points, or should have been if there weren't in-house Las Vegas judges scoring the fight.

Exactly. Kovalev won 7 rounds. He already won on points. Ward would have needed a tko and is to feather fisted to do so. He landed one clear punch in rd 8 against kov which wobbled kov, but serguy regained energy and nothing would have happened, but than those 2-4 low blows hurt kov again and weeks waved it off like nothing unusual happened.....

[turn2stone]

Well at least the HBO broadcast team is happy....their guy won.

Mayweather vs the other dummy doesn't have a high bar to surpass this mess.

[Freedom2013]

https://twitter.com/hippieslayer666/sta ... 8020905985

[Gimp Mask]

Never liked Tony Weeks. He's known to stop fights prematurely.

[In the know 85]

Both.. a disgrace to the game.

[Badhusker]

I thought this guy was a decent referee.

WTF was that? That was 3 CLEAR SHOTS TO THE BALLS!!

The worst part is... even if they shots were legit it still wouldn't be enough to wave it off ffs.

Scandalous. Get fired, idiot.

You were fine with him as referee of Floyd vs Maidana 1, when he allowed a boatload of illegal tactics. You would also be fine with him if Ward was on the receiving end.

[Ricky_]

I thought this guy was a decent referee.

WTF was that? That was 3 CLEAR SHOTS TO THE BALLS!!

The worst part is... even if they shots were legit it still wouldn't be enough to wave it off ffs.

Scandalous. Get fired, idiot.

You were fine with him as referee of Floyd vs Maidana 1, when he allowed a boatload of illegal tactics. You would also be fine with him if Ward was on the receiving end.

Piss off Brut.

[Blodhemn]

I'm going to have to say corrupt. These jokers keep getting free passes. It's time to stop giving them. It's clear as day they don't give a fornicate when displaying the corruption out in the open.

[greg]

https://twitter.com/TonyWeeks_/status/8 ... 3862614016