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boxing_rocks wrote: ↑07 Dec 2017, 10:03

lazboy wrote: ↑06 Dec 2017, 19:18 How do you beat him? In my opinion you need to have good to great boxing skills, incredible stamina, incredible mental fortitude to deal with the frustration, a grappling game or you need to have great boxing skills and a good ref who is a boxing purist.

You got to have neutral judges too. It is extremely hard to win against somebody good who is allowed to head butt, elbow, low blow and hang on you for the whole fight.

Nobody is allowed to do those things, awareness of where the ref is and how you flirt with the rules is a skill in itself, get over it, its been this way since year dot, oh and judges get paid off only in the movies

People just butthurt that Kovalev marketed as this crusher that was going to KO Ward couldn't do it.


Regardless of what Ward did in the fight. If Kovalev would've KO'd him like he said he would, it wouldn't even be a conversation.

IKSRTFO wrote: ↑07 Dec 2017, 10:24 People just butthurt that Kovalev marketed as this crusher that was going to KO Ward couldn't do it.


Regardless of what Ward did in the fight. If Kovalev would've KO'd him like he said he would, it wouldn't even be a conversation.

Yes, Kovalev under performed, especially in the second fight. He would still have gotten a nod in the first fight if judges were neutral, and who knows how the second fight would go if a ref was punishing Ward for fouling.

boxing_rocks wrote: ↑07 Dec 2017, 12:40

IKSRTFO wrote: ↑07 Dec 2017, 10:24 People just butthurt that Kovalev marketed as this crusher that was going to KO Ward couldn't do it.


Regardless of what Ward did in the fight. If Kovalev would've KO'd him like he said he would, it wouldn't even be a conversation.

Yes, Kovalev under performed, especially in the second fight. He would still have gotten a nod in the first fight if judges were neutral, and who knows how the second fight would go if a ref was punishing Ward for fouling.

If Kovalev were as great a boxer and this destroyer that everyone was making him out to be, he wouldn't need the judges in the first fight. He would've been able to finish Ward when he had him hurt. Even if you had Ward losing, Ward proved he was mentally tougher by not folding once hurt.

I wouldn't call that a rant: it was a perfectly reasonable comment & one I agree wholeheartedly with.

IKSRTFO wrote: ↑07 Dec 2017, 13:08

boxing_rocks wrote: ↑07 Dec 2017, 12:40

IKSRTFO wrote: ↑07 Dec 2017, 10:24 People just butthurt that Kovalev marketed as this crusher that was going to KO Ward couldn't do it.


Regardless of what Ward did in the fight. If Kovalev would've KO'd him like he said he would, it wouldn't even be a conversation.

Yes, Kovalev under performed, especially in the second fight. He would still have gotten a nod in the first fight if judges were neutral, and who knows how the second fight would go if a ref was punishing Ward for fouling.

If Kovalev were as great a boxer and this destroyer that everyone was making him out to be, he wouldn't need the judges in the first fight. He would've been able to finish Ward when he had him hurt. Even if you had Ward losing, Ward proved he was mentally tougher by not folding once hurt.

Your right Kovalev should have come and hit ward low three times once he had him hurt to finish him off like Ward did to Kovalev in the second fight.

Andre Bored

I think Ward fights again..

victor-romeo wrote: ↑07 Dec 2017, 13:46 I think Ward fights again..

Please no.

victor-romeo wrote: ↑07 Dec 2017, 13:43

IKSRTFO wrote: ↑07 Dec 2017, 13:08

boxing_rocks wrote: ↑07 Dec 2017, 12:40

Yes, Kovalev under performed, especially in the second fight. He would still have gotten a nod in the first fight if judges were neutral, and who knows how the second fight would go if a ref was punishing Ward for fouling.

If Kovalev were as great a boxer and this destroyer that everyone was making him out to be, he wouldn't need the judges in the first fight. He would've been able to finish Ward when he had him hurt. Even if you had Ward losing, Ward proved he was mentally tougher by not folding once hurt.

Your right Kovalev should have come and hit ward low three times once he had him hurt to finish him off like Ward did to Kovalev in the second fight.

He had Ward hurt in the 2nd round of the first fight and couldn't finish him. Either Kovalev isn't as tough as advertised or Ward is tougher than many are giving him credit for. You will forever be butthurt for that loss but at the end of the day, it will always say Ward W Kovalev with no asterisks.