The Official Sergey "Krusher" Kovalev vs Andre "S.O.G." Ward Fight Thread

[reservoirdogs]

this could be interesting but they picked the most biased person to do this
what's the point in this on this way?

also the fukk is an x-factor

 

[BeatsBoxingMayhem]

Check out this interview I did this week with SOG about Kovalev's racism, Black Lives Matter, the science behind the jab, tough fights vs. cherrypicking and more. Got the impression he's highly confident Kovalev can't handle him.

[Interview] Andre Ward on Kovalev, Black Lives Matter and Chasing Greatness

 

[mr. smoke weed]

It should appear elite with lower tier competition. We will know more the night of the fight.

Agreed. But in the past when he fought higher/elite level comp it was there so.

 

[HeruDat1]

Looking at the last press pics, kovalev is definitely the bigger guy.

I had the complete opposite reaction but maybe we should look at the same pic

Edit

A pic from below really

Go watch the video from press HBO cameras they have a higher camera

 

[mr. smoke weed]

Why journalists like KOvalev's chances significantly more than fighters and other boxing personalities?

They don't get held 'accountable' when their predictions are wrong. So they're feeling froggy and make the bold Krusher pick

It's Rigo vs Donaire part two if you know boxing. People actually think Kovalev's (albeit good) hand and foot feints are going to confuse Ward, and leave him to get hit by Kovalevs lead right....over and over to the point he could actually lose the fight

Also all those people who said Kov's the bigger guy, Ward won't be able to clinch him........doesn't seem to be the case.

 

[reservoirdogs]

I had the complete opposite reaction but maybe we should look at the same pic

Edit



A pic from below really

Go watch the video from press HBO cameras they have a higher camera

yeah it's tricky I also believed for a minute that KOv is higher but they are even

 

[HeruDat1]

so let's talk about these war tactics from Virgil and team Ward

According to the paperwork filed with the Nevada State Athletic Commission, Ward has a guarantee of $5 million for the fight - which is twice the amount that Kovalev is receiving at $2 million.

At Thursday's final press conference, Hunter had spoke to the media in attendance and explained his anger over Kovalev being paid less than 50% of what Ward was making....

"This is a 50-50 fight, but the pay doesn't reflect that. How does the challenger make a boat-load of money, but the champion don't? I don't understand that. I think those are some questions that need to be asking. I'm really torn by it. Until you've been in my shoes and worked with young men and seen the suffering of things, you never know," Hunter said.

" I don't understand it. Maybe he is fine with it, or maybe its not true - and that would be the best news I could get. It is something that really bothered me. But if everyone is fine with it, then its fine with me. But it really bothered me."

Of course, Hunter brought up the subject a few more times as he detailed how it was like for fighters in the 40s and 50s, making a point that foreign fighters were often "hoodwinked" into taking less money while the promoters absorbed the bulk of the profit.

"You fight, I'll do your business and you look up and you have no money, but in the meantime my grand-kids are going to college on your blood sweat and tears," Hunter said.

"I encourage all fighters to be businessmen, don't be a robot. And its easy from the foreign countries to get that type of fighter and pay him what you want to pay him and they should be happy with it. I just encourage them all to be businessmen. Athletes are businessmen and no longer robots."

 

[mr. smoke weed]

Some of the reasoning behind those journalists picks are real Kovalev still coasting off that win over B Hop I see

 

[GzUp]

this could be interesting but they picked the most biased person to do this
what's the point in this on this way?

also the fukk is an x-factor

He has different people also, I remember him doing this for the Floyd Manny fight.

 

[GzUp]

I had the complete opposite reaction but maybe we should look at the same pic

Edit



A pic from below really

Go watch the video from press HBO cameras they have a higher camera

Do u think that I mean taller?

 

[GzUp]

Ward clearly looks bigger to me in frames

Kovalev is higher but that won't matter much

Right now ward looks like the hydrated man, just wait until fight night and u will see a much bigger man in kovalev

 

[reservoirdogs]

Right now ward looks like the hydrated man, just wait until fight night and u will see a much bigger man in kovalev

Ward also said it's hard to make 175 for him

 

[GzUp]

Ward also said it's hard to make 175 for him

Its already hard for him to make 175?

During the kovalev vs Hopkins fight it showed how it was for kovalev to make the weight.

 

[HeruDat1]

Do u think that I mean taller?

It means all size we will get a better look at weigh in today tho I don't think it will matter ultimately

 

[GzUp]

It means all size we will get a better look at weigh in today tho I don't think it will matter ultimately

It won't matter too much.