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Andre Ward is very proud of his performance from last November, when he won a twelve round unanimous decision over Sergey Kovalev.

"I'll be honest, I've had a lot of fights in my career but this is probably the proudest I've been of myself based on how the fight went and having to just show the world, show myself, show my team that I can win a different way,"

"I've never had to come from behind and it wasn't against a B-class, C-class fighter. It was against who many said was the best light heavyweight, if not the best fighter in the world. I'm happy about the performance."

"I didn't need to get knocked down to know the fortitude that I have in me. Being a champion is not just being a frontrunner and being ahead, but it's facing adversity. If something happens and you're behind and you get hit in the mouth early like that, you have two options: You can either pack it in mentally and internally and go into survival mode and quit, or you're going to get up and go to work. We were fortunate enough to get up and go to work."

Ward has no complaints over being caught by a big shot and dropped by Kovalev.

"These things happen. You're going to face adversity. It's not if, it's when. The question is how you respond, and I'm just really, really pleased with my team, my head coach and myself by the way we responded to adversity in the biggest fight of my life. That's my historical piece and having my piece of history knowing that's true. That's only the second time that I've touched the canvas in a 22-year career, so it's not bad,"

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This is why the world thinks this guys a d-bag. Most people feel that he lost the fight and he's producing soundbites like this just to aggravate people

A real man and champion responds like this...."The fight was very tough to call but both guys gave a lot. thankfully, there's a rematch clause in place so we can do it again and see if we can determine a clear victor."

luckily he gone, after feeling what it is like to be in the ring with a light heavyweight elite boxer he doesnt want any of this, never, his face was swollen tomato red, he doesnt want no 6'2 gvozdyk or bert both with ko ratios around 100 %, no no, he doesnt want this, he goes to his mid fantasyland and keeps repeating how he won against kovalev and how he is the best boxer at light heavyweight and him repeating it time after time makes him actualy believing him it.

If you look at these scorecards, there’s only one or two rounds separating Kovalev and Ward, which meant it was a competitive bout where there was no clear winner:

• Ramon Aranda (3MoreRounds): 114-113 Ward
• Daniel Attias (AUSboxing) : 114-113 Kovalev
• Tom Craze (Bad Left Hook): 114-113 Ward
• Ron Borges (Boston Herald): 116-114 Kovalev
• Andy Paterson (Boxing Asylum): 114-113 Kovalev
• Danny Winterbottom (Boxing Monthly): 114-113 Kovalev
• John Angus MacDonald (Boxing Monthly): 114-113 Kovalev
• Mark Butcher (Boxing Monthly): 114-113 Ward
• Ben Weismann (spam): 114-113 Kovalev
• Ryan Burton (BS): 115-113 Kovalev
• G. Leon (Boxtalk): 114-113 Kovalev
• Lyle Fitzsimmons (CBS Sports): 114-113 Ward
• Andreas Hale (Champions Fight): Draw
• Daniel Vano (Checkhookboxing): 114-113 Kovalev
• Bernardo Osuna (ESPN Deportes): 115-113 Kovalev
• Stephen A Smith (ESPN): 114-113 Kovalev
• Brian Campbell (ESPN): 114-113 Ward
• Marcellus Wiley (ESPN): Draw
• Arash Markazi (ESPN): Kovalev won
• Jack Jorgensen (FanSided): Kovalev won
• Mark Ortega (Freelance): 115-112 Ward
• Wolfgang Schiffbauer (German Freelancer): 114-113 Ward
• Eric Raskin (HBO): 114-113 Kovalev
• Kieran Mulvaney (HBO): 114-113 Kovalev
• Dylan Hernandez (LA Times): 114-113 Ward
• Alex Morris (Next Big Pod): 114-113 Kovalev
• George Willis (NY Post): 114-113 Ward
• Michael Rosenthal (Ring Magazine): 114-113 Ward
• Tom Gray (Ring Magazine): 116-115 Ward
• Adam Abramowitz (Saturday Night Boxing): 115-112 Ward
• Danny Richardson (Script Media): 115-112 Ward
• Al Bernstein (Showtime Sports): Had Kovalev winning
• Paul Smith Jnr (Sky Sports): 116-113 Ward
• Johnny Nelson (Sky Sports): 114-114 Draw
• Beau Denison (The Boxing Truth): 114-113 Kovalev
• Bill Simmons (The Ringer): Kovalev won
• Bob Velin (USA Today Sports): 114-113 Kovalev
• Mike Coppinger (USA Today): 114-113 Ward
• Phil D. Jay (WBN – World Boxing News): 114-113 Ward
• Kevin Iole (Yahoo! Sports): 114-113 Ward
• Boxhard Podcast: 115-113 Kovalev
• BS – 114-113 Ward
• Forbes – 114-113 Kovalev
• LA Times Online: 114-113 Ward
• New York Post Online: 114-113 Ward
• WorldBoxingNews: 114-113 Ward
• Paulie Malignaggi (Sky Sports): 116-112 Ward
• Matthew Macklin (Sky Sports): 115-113 Ward
• Spencer Fearon (Sky Sports): 115-113 Ward
• Paul Smith (Sky Sports): 115-112 Ward
• Tony Bellew (Sky Sports): 114-114 Draw
• Johnny Nelson (Sky Sports): 114-114 Draw
• Adam Smith (Sky Sports): 114-113 Ward
• Eddie Hearn (Sky Sports): 114-113 Ward

Therefore, Andre Ward has every right to feel proud about his performance in the Kovalev fight, even if you don’t believe that he did enough to earn the victory.

Despite losing the first few rounds and getting decked, Ward somehow recovered enough to gain the winning momentum during the second half of the bout to close the gap on the scorecards, making it very difficult for a lot of people to determine a winner, which is a huge achievement considering the calibre of the opposition he was up against.

If we want to continue seeing the very best facing the very best, then we need to stop criticising those pugilists that are willing to take the risks. Andre Ward wasn’t personally responsible for the officiating during his bout with Kovalev, so any bitter and twisted Krusher fans should target their hatred towards the judges, not the fighters.

Thankfully, this dirty boring delusional boxer will be retired soon. The only thing I am afraid of is that he will work as a commentator. He will for sure be as biased as Paulie.

73% of 60 boxing media people scored it for Sergey Kovalev

MEDIA SCORES:

Shaun Brown (TalkingBoxing.uk): 115-112 Kovalev
Harold Lederman (HBO): 116-111 Kovalev
Chris Mannix (Yahoo Sports): 115-112 Kovalev
Boxhard Podcast: 115-113 Kovalev
Dan Rafael (ESPN): 115-112 Kovalev
Andy Paterson (Boxing Asylum): 114-113 Kovalev
Cliff Rold (BS): 115-112 Kovalev
Daniel Vano (Checkhookboxing): 114-113 Kovalev
WorldBoxingNews: 114-113 Ward
Lance Pugmire (LA Times): 115-112 Kovalev
Ryan Burton (BS): 115-113 Kovalev
Kevin Iole (Yahoo Sports): 114-113 Ward
Daniel Attias (AUSboxing) : 114-113 Kovalev
Victor M Salazar (BS): 115-112 Kovalev
Scott Christ (BadLeftHook): 115-112 Kovalev
Wolfgang Schiffbauer (German Freelancer): 114-113 Ward
Beau Denison (The Boxing Truth): 114-113 Kovalev
Ramon Aranda (3MoreRounds): 114-113 Ward
Brian Campbell (ESPN): 114-113 Ward
Gareth A Davies (The Telegraph): 115-112 Kovalev
Boxing Monthly Online: 114-113 Kovalev
Kevin McRae (Bleacher Report): 115-112 Kovalev
Steve Zemach ( FoxSports640): 115-112 Kovalev
Bernardo Osuna (ESPN Deportes): 115-113 Kovalev
Mark Ortega (Freelance): 115-112 Ward
Michael Montero (Montero On Boxing): 116-111 Kovalev
Mike Coppinger (USA Today): 114-113 Ward
Ben Weismann (spam): 114-113 Kovalev
Tom Craze (BadLeftHook): 116-111 Ward
Danny Richardson (Script Media): 115-112 Ward
Jorge Hernandez (SW Fight): 115-112 Kovalev
Tim Starks (Queensberry Rules): 115-112 Kovalev
The Guardian Online: 115-112 Kovalev
New York Post Online: 114-113 Ward
G. Leon (Boxtalk): 114-113 Kovalev
Tim Dahlberg (AP): 116-111 Kovalev
Fraser Coffeen (Bloody Elbow): 115-112 Kovalev
Steve Kim (UCN Live): 115-112 Kovalev
Bokser.org: 115-112 Kovalev
Bob Velin (USA Today): 114-113 Kovalev
FightersRated: 115-112 Kovalev
LA Times Online: 114-113 Ward
Allan Fox (Boxingnews24): 117-110 Kovalev
Kieran Mulvaney (HBO): 114-113 Kovalev
Ron Borges (Boston Herald): 116-114 Kovalev
Tony Bellew (Sky Sports): 114-114 DRAW
Eric Raskin (HBO): 114-113 Kovalev
Heavy Bag Boxing: 115-112 Kovalev
Andrew Harrison (Boxing Monthly): 117-111 Kovalev
Stephen A Smith (ESPN): 114-113 Kovalev
Paul Smith Jnr (Sky Sports): 116-113 Ward
John Angus MacDonald (Boxing Monthly): 114-113 Kovalev
Adam Abramowitz (Saturday Night Boxing): 115-112 Ward
Mark Butcher (Boxing Monthly): 114-113 Ward
Doug Fischer (Ring Magazine): 117-110 Kovalev
Alex Morris (Next Big Pod): 114-113 Kovalev
Queensberry Rules: 115-112 Kovalev
Danny Winterbottom (Boxing Monthly): 114-113 Kovalev
Tom Gray (Ring Magazine): 116-115 Ward
Sam Sheppard (Next Big Pod): 115-112 Kovalev

boxing_rocks wrote:Thankfully, this dirty boring delusional boxer will be retired soon. The only thing I am afraid of is that he will work as a commentator. He will for sure be as biased as Paulie.

Paulie's a good commentator I've never had any issues with him. Roy Jones and Barry McGuigan seem to the most biased former boxers turned commentators around.

gilgamesh wrote:

boxing_rocks wrote:Thankfully, this dirty boring delusional boxer will be retired soon. The only thing I am afraid of is that he will work as a commentator. He will for sure be as biased as Paulie.

Paulie's a good commentator I've never had any issues with him. Roy Jones and Barry McGuigan seem to the most biased former boxers turned commentators around.

Paulie always scores against punchers counting touches/slaps the same way as hard punches.

boxing_rocks wrote:

gilgamesh wrote:

boxing_rocks wrote:Thankfully, this dirty boring delusional boxer will be retired soon. The only thing I am afraid of is that he will work as a commentator. He will for sure be as biased as Paulie.

Paulie's a good commentator I've never had any issues with him. Roy Jones and Barry McGuigan seem to the most biased former boxers turned commentators around.

Paulie always scores against punchers counting touches/slaps the same way as hard punches.

I never really pay attention to his scorecards I don't guess. I'm always scoring the fight myself.

gilgamesh wrote:

boxing_rocks wrote:

gilgamesh wrote:
Paulie's a good commentator I've never had any issues with him. Roy Jones and Barry McGuigan seem to the most biased former boxers turned commentators around.

Paulie always scores against punchers counting touches/slaps the same way as hard punches.

I never really pay attention to his scorecards I don't guess. I'm always scoring the fight myself.

His comments correlate with his scorecards.

boxing_rocks wrote:

gilgamesh wrote:

boxing_rocks wrote:
Paulie always scores against punchers counting touches/slaps the same way as hard punches.

I never really pay attention to his scorecards I don't guess. I'm always scoring the fight myself.

His comments correlate with his scorecards.

I guess. I've never had an issue with Paulie as a commentator though.

Paulie hates punchers.

He especially hated Shawn Porter... OUCH!@!%?!!

caldo2025 wrote:A real man and champion responds like this...."The fight was very tough to call but both guys gave a lot. thankfully, there's a rematch clause in place so we can do it again and see if we can determine a clear victor."

exacly. this day and age is scattered
with talkers.

froch showed against groves how one
should handle this.

Kalan wrote:Paulie hates punchers.

He especially hated Shawn Porter... OUCH!@!%?!!

The only time Shawn Porter looked like a puncher was against Paulie

Paulie was laughably biased in his commentary for UK television. He somehow gave Ward the tenth and was acting like people don't know how to score if they didn't have Ward winning. He obviously leans towards the fighters more like himself.

crusader wrote:Paulie was laughably biased in his commentary for UK television. He somehow gave Ward the tenth and was acting like people don't know how to score if they didn't have Ward winning. He obviously leans towards the fighters more like himself.

I heard the U.S. commentary on that fight. It doesn't surprise me though that Paulie would favor other fighters with a style similar to his. Chris Byrd did the same thing the one time I saw him commentating. If you were being exclusively defensive, and throwing few punches, you were doing great according to Byrd.

Paulie thinks he's an expert.. One of my favorite Paulie stories is from his Ricky Hatton fight... Hatton wasn't considered a real good boxer. He was in fact not that terrific -- but Hatton was with Floyd Mayweather Sr for 2 fights -- the 1st of which was Paulie Malignaggi...

Floyd Sr said "Rick, we're going to outbox Paulie. Okay? Paulie can't box." ... Hatton said "Okay...but he's a really weak puncher right?" ... Sr says "And that's why he expects us to come get him -- and why we're going to box him.. Because he can't box and we're going to box the sh!t out of him."

Hatton wasn't too sure.. So the 1st round Paulie wins easily and Mayweather was on Hatton in the corner.. "You gotta listen Rick. Everything we worked on for 7 weeks, you gotta use it.. Stop that jab like this. That's the only thing he throws. You destroy that he's got nothing." Hatton kept his distance and boxed well the rest of the way. He defended well, and outboxed Paulie every round -- even nailing him with right hand counters. Paulie did so poorly that Buddy McGirt stopped the fight. Paulie was so frustrated he shoved McGirt, saying "get the fk off of me MF" or words to that effect.

Hatton returned to form in his next fight with Pacquiao... I knew that would be a disaster... He needed about 5 or 6 Paulie's before going there.

I doubt Hatton would've ever been ready for Pac.

Andre Ward so very proud of himself. Isn't that one of the seven dealy sins. Isn't he the son of god. Andre Ward anti christ.

^ffs

lazboy wrote:Andre Ward so very proud of himself. Isn't that one of the seven dealy sins. Isn't he the son of god. Andre Ward anti christ.

"Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted"
- Jesus Christ, the REAL Son of God

He should be proud. Valiant effort to get back in the fight, a bad decision doesn't change that.

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:He should be proud. Valiant effort to get back in the fight, a bad decision doesn't change that.

Except he thinks that he is a clear winner and is proud of that.

boxing_rocks wrote:

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:He should be proud. Valiant effort to get back in the fight, a bad decision doesn't change that.

Except he thinks that he is a clear winner and is proud of that.

So? Fighters have thought they won hundreds of fights that weren't that close. Manny thinks he beat Floyd. Ward is a complete douchebag, just not for this.