I was wrong, but i'm stunned by the reactin to last nights fight

**amat** · 11-22-2009 05:26 PM

And btw- Ward showed a clear distinction between his style of fighting and Dirrell's. Not that it needs pointing out but Ward showed how you can still use your hand and foot speed advantages to be aggressive. Ward was a lot of things last night, 'negative' was not one of them.

**sumkalambay** · 11-22-2009 05:28 PM

ward's a whole lot better than dirrell. not nearly as sloppy.

**killersheep** · 11-22-2009 05:28 PM

Originally Posted by amat

And btw- Ward showed a clear distinction between his style of fighting and Dirrell's. Not that it needs pointing out but Ward showed how you can still use your hand and foot speed advantages to be aggressive. Ward was a lot of things last night, 'negative' was not one of them.

You're a 'negative' poster

**OumaFan** · 11-22-2009 05:39 PM

Does anybody really think Ward should have had a point taken off for holding? If you do you're way overdoing how much he was holding. I didn't have a problem with the point taken from Dirrell for excessive holding (although that ref was worse than this one overall) but to take one from Ward would have been absurd.

And punching in the clinch? Really? This is boxing ffs. A lot of the time it was happening it was Kessler holding anyway. And the ref would break them which helped Kessler if anything cause he absolutely didn't even attempt to fight inside. LOL at punching in the clinch. Its exactly what Froch was doing except Ward was actually punching Kessler in legal areas of the body instead of the back of the head.

I've gotta check the headbutts again but that's all that I think is that questionable. I've just downloaded a good copy of the fight that I can send to people who are outraged about it but haven't seen it.