Kovalez-Ward 3 Days Away (11-19-16)

[allBthere]

Quote: Originally Posted by sheredia

thanks, buddy....can't wait for rematch. should be even better since they both know what they are bringing to the table now.

In my opinion, it was a great world class fight with adjustments and momentum swings. Judging aside, a boxing fan would enjoy it. To me kovalev won but his inability to be dominant especially in the later rounds lost him the fight. He won big early, so the drop off made it easier to score for ward. IMO kovalev won by at least 2 points. Rematch needs to happen, and it will be a pleasure to watch (again) -world class skill on both sides on display

[JayBee74]

Two judges gave Andre the LAST SIX ROUNDS and the other one gave him 7 of the last 8 rounds. Absolutely ridiculous.

[sheredia]

Quote: Originally Posted by allBthere

In my opinion, it was a great world class fight with adjustments and momentum swings. Judging aside, a boxing fan would enjoy it. To me kovalev won but his inability to be dominant especially in the later rounds lost him the fight. He won big early, so the drop off made it easier to score for ward. IMO kovalev won by at least 2 points. Rematch needs to happen, and it will be a pleasure to watch (again) -world class skill on both sides on display

boy, that was some knockdown.....kudos to ward for coming back from that one. maybe kovalev relaxed just a bit in the later rounds figuring the knockdown and power punches gave him a big enough lead. p.s. on a side note, wonder if stallone and jordan were there. seems like the fighters from the creed movie have fared well recently. bellew with his cruiserweight title and ward now beating kovalev.

[JayBee74]

Interesting comments by Kellerman who at that point did not know that two judges gave Andre the last six rounds and the other one gave him 7 of the last 8 rounds.

" I think that Ward was awarded every round that he could have been awarded by the judges".

Very diplomatically he called the decision controversial, but not "bad".

[gmac0322]

Ward was definitely landing a lot of good clean body shots. Definitely slowed Kovalev down. At least took some steam off of his punches. Hell of a fight. Either way that the decision went it was going to warrant a rematch. Way too close of a fight not to.

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[gmac0322]

Quote: Originally Posted by JayBee74

Interesting comments by Kellerman who at that point did not know that two judges gave Andre the last six rounds and the other one gave him 7 of the last 8 rounds. " I think that Ward was awarded every round that he could have been awarded by the judges". Very diplomatically he called the decision controversial, but not "bad".

Kellerman nailed his final point on the fight.

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[JayBee74]

[JayBee74]

Ward vs. Kovalev
Six-round breakdown Punches Landed (CompuBox)

ROUNDS 1-6 Kovalez 52 Ward 36
ROUNDS 7-12 Ward 80 Kovalez 74