I wish I could dap my own post
Ward just said what my biggest problem of the whole fight was...and it wasn't the judging. Kovalev was talking before the fight about how Ward is a dirty fighter and he wasn't going to let Ward fight dirty. During the fight there was holding and I felt it was pretty equal on who was holding. That surprised me, I thought Ward would look to tie up on the inside to frustrate Kovalev, but Kovalev held a lot to stop Ward's inside work. Overall there was less holding in the entire fight than I thought there would be.
But...the biggest problem was that Kovalev after the fight complained about Ward holding and being dirty. I don't care that Kovalev thinks he won and is stirring up the media. It was a close fight and he accounted well for himself. He earned the right to complain that he won. But he never did one thing to dissuade Ward from being "dirty", which Ward was never dirty, where beforehand he said that he would break Ward's wrists and hurt him if he fought dirty.
I'll buy virtually every other argument...excuse...but not that one.
