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The judges were racist in Ward's favor, the ref showed pure racism allowing Ward to fight dirty but when ever Kovalev was getting the better of the

dirty tactics he'd break it up! ALL THE ODDS IN TERMS OF RACISM WERE STACKED AGAINST SERGEY KOVALEV. He said it himself "Come On Man,

Nobody Cares About a Russian Come On." Ward got almost knocked out by a jab, dropped in round 2, then got his eardrum busted & but you mean

to tell me Ward won unaminious PURE racism at its finest.

Krusty at his finest

Today sexism and nationalism are worse problems than racism---although racism is with us and believe it helped elect that jerk Trump... But this was nationalism... If a white American beat Ward that bad he'd win it.. Kovalev fought his previous fight in Russia with a diverse mix of officials from the US, Nicaragua, and Hungary...not one official was from Russia because the Russian commission obviously thought they'd be likely to favor Kovalev... That's what they generally do to give the appearance that the deck isn't stacked in favor of the local fighter - so when you saw the commission appoint Americans across the board it stunk all the way to Denmark.

Racism? No

Incompetence? Yes

..I believe it's neither racism nor incompetence, rather this deeply rooted charity-begins-at-home principle reinforced by the cheering home crowd...appointing local judges in high profile cases should be a no-go everywhere...