11/2 DAZN Presents: Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez vs. Sergey 'Krusher' Kovalev

[reservoirdogs]

I’ll check my biases because I had Canelo by decision with a lot of money on the line but it just looked weird to me. Of course the last straight right hand with put anybody to sleep but idk.

and that's the point

Fixed fights don't end like that

 

[Bigblackted4]

People acting like it was Wilder vs Malik Scott fukk outta here.

I don’t even think that was a fix just somebody terrified to get touched clean.

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

missed this whole fight fukkkin with hoes last night. let me watch it and catch up

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

for anyone who missed it like me

 

[manyfaces]

Anyone saying this was a dive

This is a modern day dive some (not us hardcores) forgot about lol

Now THAT is a fukking dive Both knockdowns locked like straight bullshyt.

 

[LiveFromLondon]

Tainted Meat

 

[patscorpio]

Sergey Kovalev: I Was Tired After The Sixth Round
By Boxing Clever

Published On Sun Nov 3, 2019, 10:38 AM EST

Former world champion Sergey Kovalev admits the gas tank was running low after the sixth round of Saturday's title fight with Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez.

Canelo, who was moving up by two full weight divisions to challenge Kovalev for his WBO light heavyweight title, knocked the Russian fighter out in the eleventh round at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Kovalev was coming off a tough eleventh round knockout over unbeaten Anthony Yarde - which took place on August 24th in Russia.

According to Kovalev, his stamina took a real hit because he returned to soon to the ring.

The bout with Canelo guaranteed him a career-high financial package worth $12 million - too good of an offer to turn down.

But he explained that a tough training camp for the grueling fight with Yarde - and then heading right back to training camp for Canelo - was too much for his body to handle at 36-years-old.

“I was tired after round six, because I had my last fight very close to this one, but it’s okay, it’s a new experience for me. Canelo is really a great champion. A little bit right now, I didn’t recover from my last fight. But it’s okay. Thanks for the fight Canelo, I have big respect for him. He made history," Kovalev said.

“To open my body less, I had to use more jabs, more safe. I’ll be back. I’ll be back much stronger.”

Kovalev would also explain that his inability to secure unification fights was the reasoning for holding out until the Canelo fight was finalized.

“I know that I can be a unified champion, let’s make a unification fight - but nobody wants to fight me in my division," Kovalev said. "This guy [Canelo] is more fresh, he came into my division more fresh. He has more stamina, but it’s okay, it’s a good experience for me.”

dummy no one told you to take that canelo fight after that yarde gutcheck...you had all the right to tell that ginger to kiss your ass and the move the fukk on to heal but you wanted a bag quick

 

[3rdLetter]

I had Kov up 6-4 but he woulda lost on decision if not for the KO. No Kov did not take a dive. It just looked fishy b/c of how timid looking Kov's game plan was. Was very Bernard Hopkins like (to me at least) but at the same time he seemed scared of the big shot and from the beginning it felt like the first one to land clean would put him down.

 

[morris]

I see A LOT of casuals in here. I'm very wary of calling a fight a fix. But if there ever was one it was this, not last night

 

[Liu Kang]

I didn't think Canelo could KO him(I stated such earlier in the thread) but Kovalev got knocked silly by Eleider Alvarez and E. Alvarez isn't a heavy puncher at all. Dude's chin and overall durability is faded at this point, Canelo and his team knew what they were doing picking him to fight.

I'd say Ward put a dent in Kov's chin before Eleider cracked it definitely. It's been downhill since there and the damage was already done then and has been accumulating. Eleider put him out and hurt him badly and the second fight was both a subpart Eleider performance and a great showing by Kova but the Yarde fight showed that the end was almost here. Had Yarde have more experience, he would have put him out.

In this fight, I found him not commiting to his punches at all and I thought he expected to lose a decision and cash out easily but Canelo did the job as the true #1 P4P that he is now. Not been OK with some decisions he had but can't hate on Nelo now that he's KOing dudes at 168 and 175.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

If you wanna see a fishy stoppage watch Ali vs Liston II that's how a fix looks like, not what we saw yesterday.
Generally, they are speaking of fixes when a fighter goes down from a punch that didn't connect cleanly or just looked weak. Kovalev took 3 big punches before collapsing, the last one was an undefended straight right from Canelo right on his button.

In this day and age there are no facts anymore it's all about different narratives

I don't think that was a fix but Liston saying "fukk it. I'm not fighting this nikka again" once he went down.

 

[firemanBk]

I think the only reason people are idiotically entertaining a dive is cause Kovalev fought terrified and never committed to a single punch in the fight.
Yes I know he was afraid to get countered but why even bother take the fight then? Kovalev is not some weak high volume puncher.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

I see A LOT of casuals in here. I'm very wary of calling a fight a fix. But if there ever was one it was this, not last night

Hard to imagine the Briggs that fought Adamek fixing a fight to where he would lose like that.

 

[Conscious Pilot]

could hve spoilered the who shot ghost

Coulda fukken spoiled he even got shot

 

[reservoirdogs]

I don't think that was a fix but Liston saying "fukk it. I'm not fighting this nikka again" once he went down.

Nah Liston was a mob fighter and that punch wasn't even landing hard. Liston took way stronger punches before from the likes of Cleveland Williams in his prime. The fix was in.