Enlightened-One wrote:
Fighters aren't allowed to bend over so low.
Quote the rule Kovalev was breaking by leaning forward at the time of stoppage. Enlighten us.
Ward-Kovalev Rematch - My thoughts
Re: Ward-Kovalev Rematch - My thoughts
Quote the rule Kovalev was breaking by leaning forward at the time of stoppage. Enlighten us.
Re: Ward-Kovalev Rematch - My thoughts
That was the last punch of the fight. A clear low blow, weeks standing infront if it saw nothing. What a moron.greg wrote:
What's not clear about this punch?
This didnt came as an accident, ward knew he was punching low blows. He thought to himself that it was an effective way to hurt kovalev and that paid out weeks would close his eyes.
Re: Ward-Kovalev Rematch - My thoughts
look at that power he hits him withJip wrote:That was the last punch of the fight. A clear low blow, weeks standing infront if it saw nothing. What a moron.greg wrote:
What's not clear about this punch?
This didnt came as an accident, ward knew he was punching low blows. He thought to himself that it was an effective way to hurt kovalev and that paid out weeks would close his eyes.
Ward certainly deserves to be p4p #1Re: Ward-Kovalev Rematch - My thoughts
Seen the right now. In Russian commentary so no influence from that or cards etc
Didn't score the right round by round, but overall it look fairly close in terms of who the dominate boxer was. It appeared to me that Kovalev lacked intensity during this fight. He really needed to impose himself as the boss physically to win imo. Ward on the other hand was throwing punches and was winding up big for them. Putting most of his body into them. I know he's not as big a puncher as kovalev, but it was clear to me he had much more intent to over power kovalev than vice versa
As for the stoppage, it really was poor. Ward was moaning about rabbit punches in the clinch, kovalev was moaning about low blows. The referee put in a weak performance. Ward had already received a verbal warning for low blows in the exact same region he continued to punch. The refs performance was poor and inconsistent, and ultimately it's the main talking point now and not the fight itself.
Broadly speaking ward appeared the better boxer on the night to me, and I would have expected him to have the better of the remaining rounds and win the fight. But that's not the point in boxing, we want the fight to draw to its natural conclusion.
I feel a bit sorry for kovalev as I believe he won the first fight by 3 points, and he's been stopped early this time and whilst his opponent was looking better, he wasn't protected by the ref for low illegal blows. I watched a fight with a British Olympian rookie in his second fight, he received a low blow and immediately returned a blatant hard low blow. There's a lot to be said to this tactic. You won't be bullied or physically cheated. Kovalev should have crunched ward low imo.
Overall ward has to be p4p top 3 or top 5 at least. He's not easy on the eye, he's negative and a bit dirty, but he's a supreme boxer at the same time, and it'd take a heck of a performance to beat him. He looks better at 175 than at 168 imo. He certainly didn't look like a guy whose fought at the lower weight. He's big and strong
Didn't score the right round by round, but overall it look fairly close in terms of who the dominate boxer was. It appeared to me that Kovalev lacked intensity during this fight. He really needed to impose himself as the boss physically to win imo. Ward on the other hand was throwing punches and was winding up big for them. Putting most of his body into them. I know he's not as big a puncher as kovalev, but it was clear to me he had much more intent to over power kovalev than vice versa
As for the stoppage, it really was poor. Ward was moaning about rabbit punches in the clinch, kovalev was moaning about low blows. The referee put in a weak performance. Ward had already received a verbal warning for low blows in the exact same region he continued to punch. The refs performance was poor and inconsistent, and ultimately it's the main talking point now and not the fight itself.
Broadly speaking ward appeared the better boxer on the night to me, and I would have expected him to have the better of the remaining rounds and win the fight. But that's not the point in boxing, we want the fight to draw to its natural conclusion.
I feel a bit sorry for kovalev as I believe he won the first fight by 3 points, and he's been stopped early this time and whilst his opponent was looking better, he wasn't protected by the ref for low illegal blows. I watched a fight with a British Olympian rookie in his second fight, he received a low blow and immediately returned a blatant hard low blow. There's a lot to be said to this tactic. You won't be bullied or physically cheated. Kovalev should have crunched ward low imo.
Overall ward has to be p4p top 3 or top 5 at least. He's not easy on the eye, he's negative and a bit dirty, but he's a supreme boxer at the same time, and it'd take a heck of a performance to beat him. He looks better at 175 than at 168 imo. He certainly didn't look like a guy whose fought at the lower weight. He's big and strong