#SOGGang presents Son of God vs. Son of Vodka #Noexcuses edition

[Newzz]

He got stopped he didn't want no more he sat on the ropes and didn't complain he got his soul snatched to focus on that punch shows you're still reaching for some justification why Ward exposed your guy.

Drink Vodka in 110 degrees, Las Vegas weather, then wonder why you cant take body shots & your body is cramping up brehs



Only Newzz can do that.........KKKovaLOST

 

[Mr. Leonidas]

When your waist band is above your belly button, like Kovalev's was, then it wasn't a low blow.....especially being that Ward's gloves landed on the white part as well



You got upgraded to great seats, in order to see your boy stopped live and in person



#NoMoreExcuses

Objection your honor. That literally isn't true. Kovalev/s entire waist band was not above his belly button. the top of the waist band is covering the belly button.

He got stopped he didn't want no more he sat on the ropes and didn't complain he got his soul snatched to focus on that punch shows you're still reaching for some justification why Ward exposed your guy.

He sat on the rope after the fight was called. And he hunched over after the low blow.

And Ward exposed him now? We're using those type of words now lol? OKAY.

 

[Newzz]

Objection your honor. That literally isn't true. Kovalev/s entire waist band was not above his belly button. the top of the waist band is covering the belly button.

I never said his entire waist band was above his belly button, but at least 2 inches from where his waist starts and where his belly button is was covered by his trunks


Where's his belly button Leonidas?

So....where is it?






Oh....he pulled his trunks down after the fight to show us how his trunks where about 2 inches too high during the bout?

#NoExcuses
#SOGGang



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[Bleed The Freak]

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New smiley!

 

[reservoirdogs]

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The Ruthlessness Of S.O.G.
By Eliott McCormick @micky_a_velli · On June 22, 2017
The central premise of this article — that Andre ‘S.O.G’ Ward is a smarter, more obdurate fighter than Sergey ‘Krusher’ Kovalev, meaner, dirtier, surpassingly vicious, constituted by sturdier mettle and equipped with a finer instinct for seeing weakness — is, to savvy boxing fans, a statement of the obvious. After all, Ward had shown these qualities versus men of fine pedigree before. Six-and-a-half years ago he out-toughed Carl Froch to win the Super Six tournament, showing an unyielding hardness believed then to be the Englishman’s dominion.

Sergey Kovalev has rarely evinced these traits. A skilled boxer who easily steered himself through the division’s second tier, not once in his previous fights had “Krusher” been thrust into the inferno, even in his first bout with Jean Pascal, whom he savagely humiliated in their rematch. In his only loss, last November against Ward, Kovalev relented in the fight’s second half but absorbed no heavy damage.


Though fought on a high level, Saturday’s match failed to arouse much excitement in the buildup.

That result – a unanimous decision win for “S.O.G.,” thought by many to be the wrong result – drove Kovalev to promise he would end Ward’s career in the rematch. It was a comment consistent with his history of bloodletting: Kovalev takes undisguised joy in inflicting pain, and the ease with which he’s made profane, sometimes racist dismissals of his competitors, twinned with his capacity to harm, once fatally, has cultivated a chilling mystique that his promoters would have been wise to capitalize on.

But on Saturday, the impenetrable, detached, unfeeling Russian was beaten into literal submission by a man whose post-fight interviews begin with a paean to Jesus. Ward felled Kovalev with a variety of blows whose trajectory came from a depth more synonymous with hell than heaven.

Backed against the ropes and bent over, as though pleading for leniency with the dark force below that had once been his wellspring, Kovalev was reduced to a broken fighter. In this moment, the inhumanity that made him so interesting ceded to an all-too human fallibility. Ward’s strength had made him weak.

Our perception of Kovalev, indivisible from the pop culture prejudices from which we form our world views — that he was too hard, too mean, and too Russian to possibly ever submit — had been shattered by an articulate, sometimes condescending American boxer who is unloved by fans because of the distant length at which he’s kept them.

Before Saturday, there was much talk of how little interest there was for a fight of such magnitude. The apathy was traced to the poor promotional efforts of Rock Nation and Main Events, and the scant marketability of either leading man. Only the first part of this sentence is true. For reasons previously mentioned, Sergey Kovalev is an intriguing fighter whose dark compliment of skill and personality commands one’s attention. Ward is a different story. Sanctimonious, stubborn and convinced of his own mistreatment, his personality lacks easy appeal. Prior to the rematch, he didn’t participate in a scheduled HBO Face-off, which fortified the impression he’s an arrogant “star,” unwilling to make concessions.


Ward showed a fuller fighting heart than Kovalev on Saturday.

But on Saturday Andre Ward showed more of his soul than he could in any television interview, and the desperation with which he fights is more endearing than any forced repartee with Max Kellerman. He possesses the truest form of toughness, because maiming those you’re supposed to, as Kovalev had done before meeting ‘S.O.G.’, is more exhibition than competition, and never forces the victor to ask himself what he’ll endure to win. Far more difficult is excelling in circumstances in which making the effort isn’t much fun. While the perception of Kovalev had been one of indomitability, Ward turned reality into an instrument of his will and made clear this perception was false.

What did we learn about Ward Saturday night? Very little that we didn’t already know, as wizened fans have long been privy to his elemental meanness. What we did see, however, and perhaps more clearly than during any fight before, is the passion with which Ward approaches his craft.

The obstinacy that has alienated him from fans allows Ward to access recesses of his heart that Kovalev will never touch. “Krusher,” it seems, is fuelled by hatred of his opponent, like a self-loathing master who seeks empowerment by whipping his slave. Ward, the arrogant, defiant Greek hero, gathers strength from love of himself, and this latter source of motivation is more capable of oxygenating the heart when one’s other body parts begin to fail.

Winning boxing matches is how Ward seeks distinction. He cares only about proving himself the best and will employ questionable methods to stake this claim. In a sport meant to starkly reveal the contents of its competitors’ souls, Ward’s ruthless self-regard is his defining truth. In the ring, he is humanized by his haughtiness, and like a monomaniacal artist this arrogance prevents him from giving anything less than maximum effort. The surprise for the savvy boxing fan, then, may be that it’s precisely his refusal to betray himself that makes Andre Ward likeable.

— Eliott McCormick

The Ruthlessness Of S.O.G. - The Fight City

 

[Liquid]

Replay tonight on HBO

 

[krackdagawd]

Replay tonight on HBO

Might be my 5th time watching.

 

[Big Boss]

 

[krackdagawd]

:sadDuva:

:sadkkkov:

 

[krackdagawd]

Tony Weeks Owes Apologies to Sergey Kovalev and Andre Ward

By Keith Idec

The apologetic Tweets from Tony Weeks quickly began circulating Saturday night.

One noted that he would not have stopped the Andre Ward-Sergey Kovalev rematch had he known Ward had landed multiple low blows before he stepped in. Another included the words “I was wrong” and “I missed the low blows from Ward.”

These would’ve been damning admissions if those statements actually came from Tony Weeks. Though one of the Tweets was retweeted and favorited more than 1,000 times, those weren’t Weeks’ words.

That Tony Weeks Twitter account is fake, as is virtually every account that supposedly belongs to a boxing referee or judge. Boxing officials are discouraged by their superiors at state athletic commissions from commenting to the media, much less to the entire world.

Whoever created that fake Weeks account had the right idea, though, because the real Tony Weeks owes Sergey Kovalev and Andre Ward an apology for how he mishandled their light heavyweight championship rematch.

Weeks typically is one of boxing’s better referees, yet this was some of his worst work. The stoppage itself was horrendous because Ward landed three consecutive blows below Kovalev’s belt line before Weeks went between them to wave an end to the action at 2:29 of the eighth round at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.

The last of those three punches, the shot that made Weeks stop the fight, landed directly to Kovalev’s groin area. Weeks’ decision to stop their fight following such an obvious low blow amounted to one of the most unusual conclusions to a high-profile fight you’ll ever see.

Those that are OK with this strange stoppage have argued that Kovalev was fading fast, maybe even looking for a way out of an increasingly difficult fight, and that Weeks probably did him a favor. Kovalev was slowing down, his body language was bad and Ward very well might’ve been on his way to producing a much more conclusive victory.

The problem with those justifications are Kovalev’s perceived levels of fatigue and desire to continue don’t change the facts that Kovalev was fouled repeatedly without Weeks even warning Ward or that the fight oddly ended immediately after a Ward drilled Kovalev with a left hand that landed squarely to his groin. Fouls are fouls, and must be treated as such.

By the time Weeks stopped the fight, Kovalev also was using the ropes to hold himself up, which Weeks could’ve counted as a knockdown.

As per the unified rules of the Association of Boxing Commissions, Weeks should’ve given Kovalev the maximum of five minutes to recover from those obvious low blows and he should’ve sternly warned Ward. Even if Weeks would’ve counted Kovalev’s improper use of the ropes as a knockdown, it at least would’ve afforded Kovalev 10-15 seconds, depending on how quickly the action resumed, to prepare to defend himself.

Supporters of the stoppage have criticized Kovalev for bending over and for not defending himself by the time Weeks waved it off. He was leaning over and didn’t defend himself because he was repeatedly fouled, which Weeks inexplicably ignored.

“I am told, again, that low blows take a lot out of you,” said Kathy Duva, whose company, Main Events, promotes Kovalev. “He was getting hit like that repeatedly. It’s a shame. The referee is supposed to protect you. … The ref is supposed to protect the fighter, and I don’t feel that he protected Sergey at all.”

While Ward won the fight, he shouldn’t be particularly pleased with Weeks, either. Weeks allowed Kovalev to hit Ward with rabbit punches throughout the fight.

“If we’re gonna talk low blows, we’ll talk rabbit punches,” Ward said. “We can’t talk one without the other. And I honestly feel like his was intentional, because he really doesn’t know how to fight inside. That’s the best thing he can do.”

Ward went on to say that any of his punches that might’ve landed low on Kovalev were accidental, as if that matters.

Whether Ward was intentionally hitting Kovalev low doesn’t change the fact that Weeks should’ve at least warned Ward for several such fouls even before the eighth round. Weeks warned Ward for a low blow in the second round, but never thereafter.



Regardless, Weeks also failed to warn Kovalev for turning away from Ward in the seventh round, when Kovalev contended Ward hit him low with a punch Weeks considered within the rules. Kovalev also bent over in front of Ward earlier in the eighth round, though it appeared Ward connected with a low left hand on Kovalev in that instance as well.

Worst of all for Ward, Weeks’ weird stoppage denied him at least the opportunity to properly stop Kovalev. Who knows what would’ve happened had Weeks given Kovalev the appropriate amount of time to recover from the low blows that ended the fight?

Maybe Kovalev could’ve recovered and made the fight competitive again. Maybe not.

What we do know is Ward wrecked Kovalev with a right hand to his jaw with 1:14 to go in the eighth round. That punishing punch, the most impactful shot either fighter had landed since Kovalev floored Ward with a right hand in the second round of their first fight, was an indication that Ward was beginning to separate himself from the former champion following 19 very competitive rounds.

If Weeks would’ve done his job properly, Ward wouldn’t be left to explain the actions or inactions of a referee, when the focus of fans and media should be on what otherwise was an impressive performance by the 2004 Olympic gold medalist. And Ward would be left with one controversial victory over Kovalev on his unblemished record (32-0, 16 KOs) – not two.

This doesn’t mean Ward-Kovalev 2 should be remembered as the 21st century’s answer to Bowe-Golota. Ward did very effective body work at times that was well within the confines of the rules.

It just means Kovalev and Ward deserved better officiating from a veteran referee who completely mishandled the end of their rematch.

Weeks’ poor performance leaves Kovalev (30-2-1, 26 KOs) wondering what would’ve happened had Weeks acted appropriately when Ward hit him low. Unfortunately for Ward, Weeks’ mistakes toward the end of their fight have created at least some doubt about what might’ve emerged as a much more impressive, cleaner conclusion to their rematch.

Duva asked Bob Bennett, the executive director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, immediately after the fight to use the available replays to determine if Ward had hit Kovalev low. Bennett denied her request because, according to Duva, Bennett told her, “Tony didn’t feel it warranted [a replay review], that he was sure and he didn’t wanna look.”

Sure, referees miss stuff sometimes. That’s the nature of human error.

But after 19 extremely competitive rounds, Kovalev and Ward deserved far better than that dubious conclusion Saturday night. Now that they’re left to deal with the costly consequences (Kovalev) and to defend even a technical knockout win (Ward), they deserve apologies, this time from the real Tony Weeks.

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.

lemme sum up this article for you breh " "

 

[krackdagawd]

The Ruthlessness Of S.O.G. - The Fight City

I think since the layoff in combination w the injuries made nikkas forget the dog in Ward.

#SOGGang ain't forget though.

 

[HeruDat1]

Skip media interviews, an interview on a huge card Canelo-Chavez, refuse to speak your broken English cause you're mad at the USA, and walk out on the final press conference when you're purse is based on PPV buys


And get stopped

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

and Finally boy got Humbled..

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

and Finally boy got Humbled..

This was six days ago,I was hyped for news.

 

[krackdagawd]

and Finally boy got Humbled..

That S.O.G. halo brought many blessings upon him.