Well the fight is scheduled for Las Vegas so that's good news as it's waaaaaaaaaay far away from Ward's backyard of Oakland/San Jose (like 9hrs by car so it's not New York or Atlantic City, but it's not Ward's backyard).

Refs and judges are hit and miss, I think it would behoove the NSAC for them to provide the fairest and most impartial ref and judges that they can find as well as the most experienced.


Aside from that, Andre Ward is a cagey fighter, I like Kovalev a lot in this fight, but he's got to land clean on Ward to do him in.



So, will the officials be fair? Depends on who they are, it really does, but I would expect everything to be on the up and up because boxing can't handle more scandals or it'll give up major ground to UFC yet again.