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Kovalev is a borderline great fighter who fought a very close fight against Ward. No one on this board aside from the Slavophiles saw Kova as unbeatable.
i'm in the minority but I didn't think either guy looked great, i think they can both do a lot better. The fight was just ok, Kov gave it away more than anything. Legitimate gripe that the champion should get the benefit of the doubt, just always been the way it is, but kov just wasn't in condition to win even two more rounds.
i just think folks ain't hungry as they used to be, when i was around mma'rs, i was honestly disgusted with the work ethic. Just look at how many punches were thrown in many fight in the 80's and compare it with todays fighters, not to many can compare. I was watching ward work on the bag, hell, i've seen 15 year old kids work harder.
naw, i doubt it, working on the bag is working on the bag, nothing mysterious. he didn't do much more in the fight either. I must say that the euros and other folks, asians are still hungry, which is why i was a bit surprised by kov's output. I don't know what the numbers were in the hopkins fight but they had to be higher.
ya, hopkins wasn't doing anything but kov was still more active. I still think if he'd fought like that he'd have won, ward didn't do that much either. I think kov wins a rematch. I don't expect greatness at all, just more than those guys showed, it's the reason i don't follow the sport much these days, i've been spoiled by the guys in the past, these guys today dissapoint me. The sport needs and deserves more.
i think kov wins a rematch, unless he's just so stubborn that he can't do anything different. Ward barely won that one and i also can't forget how he fought scared for half the fight, kov gave it away.
it'll be interesting, i don't see ward having good intangibles. Kov is limited, very limited but all he has to do is throw more and be in better condition. John Jackson should chew some more ass in the corner as well.
I've never used practics and tactics of US coaches; if I gotta be honest, they're all zeroes over there. Some think about them like they're the best. These some are wrong. They take a towel, put it over the shoulder and think they're trainers. You got to be a teacher. Maybe I didn't go to college all that long but I learned some about teaching there and I learned some while having my boxing career. You got to understand what amount of training can one sustain up the mountains or after the time zone change. Not everyone is a terminator but every other condition coach thinks they are and they train them the same way not even thinking about one's limits and possibilities or any other factors affecting the training.
so, he's saying he has no respect for jackson? He seemed to listen when he fought hopkins. He shouldn't have someone in his corner that he doesn't respect if that's the case. He seems stubborn so if that's the case, the second fight will only be a continuation of the first and he'll lose worse. It's never a good sign when a guy doesn't acknowledge he needs to adjust.
if he doesn't respect his coach, he should find someone he can respect. Jackson is a smart boxing guy, someone who knows his stuff because he's been in there. There are lots of BS trainers but i don't think Jackson is one of them. These guys from overseas would do themselves a lot of good by studying american boxing and using it whenever they need to. Too many of these guys are one dimensional.
Sounds like he's setting himself up to be the big A-side in the rematch.
I do agree with him though that if he doesn't fight Kovalev, what other fight makes sense? He can take some money makers but there is no one else in the area who anyone thinks poses a problem for Andre. Maybe a Stevenson fight makes sense (though will probably be impossible to make).
The judges give the fight to anybody they know is going to keep the belt on their home soil. Local events means million of dollars into the economy, we're talking licenses, hotels, rent, tourism, and taxes from all of it. That's why Europeans get screwed over because they'll take the belt to Europe. That's why Canelo got all the rounds even though Amir was winning the rounds before he got KO'd.
So whether its American or Mexican, they're going to fight in Vegas and Cali, they're in the State's good grace. Too bad for the other guy.