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Tszyu: Kovalev wasn’t robbed
- Updated: November 24, 2016
Kostya Tszyu has told Sergey Kovalev to stop blaming the judges for his defeat to Andre Ward and learn from the experience.
Kovalev lost to a unanimous decision in Las Vegas on Saturday night with American Ward a point ahead on all three scorecards and blamed his defeat on “politics” and the fact that all the judges were American.
However, former three-time world super-lightweight champion Tszyu dismissed the idea that the Russian should have won on the cards, especially after putting Ward down in the second round.
“I was very much rooting for him,” he told Allboxing.ru.
“I took great pleasure in watching how he won his fights but in this fight with Ward, something went wrong.
“I would not be so straightforward [to call it robbery]. If the fight took place in Russia or on neutral territory Ward would be unlikely to get such assessment from the judges.
“But the fight was held at the home …
