LAS VEGAS -- Let's flash back for a moment to last Nov. 16 at the T-Mobile Arena. That is when then-unified three-belt light heavyweight world titleholder Sergey Kovalev and former super middleweight champion Andre Ward, two of boxing's elite pound-for-pound fighters, put on a highly entertaining battle.
Kovalev knocked Ward down in the second round and looked to be in control through the first half of the fight. But Ward steadily made a comeback and Kovalev began to fade late. Still, when the final bell sounded most at ringside -- and those vocal about the fight on social media -- thought that Kovalev had won a close, but clear decision.