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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2224168, member: 289"] It's fun to watch two top boxers actually fight each other instead of a couple of over-matched opponents. We got it with Ward- Kovalev I and will get it again this fall with Canelo Alvarez vs. GGG. I was one of those who felt Kovalev won the first fight. i didn't feel Ward's comeback was enough ot overcome his early lead. But I did thing Ward would win the rematch. I love a fighter who has not just a style but a strategy. Ward and Crawford are the two best at sizing up an opponent during a fight and determined what will and will not work and making successful adjustments. I felt that Ward had figured out Kovalev midway through the first fight and would fight him the same way from the beginning of the second fight and he did. Harold Lederman was clueless, giving Kovalev ever round because "he was was moving forward and Ward was moving backwards". I've seen dozens of fights where the guy moving forward lost and the guy moving backwards, (actually, both backwards and side to side) won. Mayweather did a lot of that. Wilfred Benitez was the master of it. The one thing Kovalev had going for him it that his volume of punches was greater and he thus landed more. But despite Kovalev's well-earned reputation as a puncher, his punches seemed to have little impact as War was moving away from them or avoiding them completely. His punches may have taken more out of him than Ward because of all the ones he missed. Ward picked his spots and , as he did in the second half of the first fight, went after Kovalev's body. Some of his shots were borderline but they always caught part of the belt and Kovalev had his shorts pulled up above his navel. Kovalev looked very much the worse for wear by the midway point of the fight and he started claiming he was being hit below the belt and looking for the ref to grant him rest periods. I think that's what ehw as doing when the fight was stopped in the 8th. But the ref sopped the fight instead. Kovalev was angry but I think he was physically done at that point. Now Ward has a problem: who doe he fight? Adonis Stevenson, who actually holds the lineal LHW title, seems to avoid big confrontations. Ward didn't even mention him. Instead he was taking about Cruiserweights or even heavyweights. (Isn't it about time we had a division in between them?). Maybe he'd like to take on the Canelo Alvarez-GGG winner? Maybe Kovalev could claim he got cheated again and get a third fight. off of what I saw last night, we wouldn't win it. [/QUOTE]

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