Quote Originally Posted by Gandalf View Post
I think Kovalev edged a very close fight. It was clearly the fight to show who the best in the division is, but all this talk of P4P is a bit corny IMO. Ward looked very flawed and lost half a fight
to be fair to ward he has gone up in weight to fight one of the best out there, he did have 2 fights at light heavyweight before this of course but they were really not the proper preperation to take on kovalev especially considering wards inactivity since beating froch, maybe that is wards faul maybe it isnt but I think he took on a great opponent with inadequate preperation and gave a very good account of himself, I think ward was definently surprised by kovalevs power and was not ready for it at all, I would like to see a rematch as i think kovalev won but ward was getting better as the fight went on. I had a similar scorecard as you, same scoreline but maybe not the exact rounds. I also thought this was a really interesting fight due to it being so close.