Comments Thread For: Sergey Kovalev vs. Andre Ward Past Fight Statistics By CompuBox

[Jewish-Reptile]

... because you asked me a question... and now you're still asking me another one... should I simply ignore you?... it isn't difficult, you know well...

I said you're funny, I hope you enjoy the result of the fight and you replied 'I have experience in sociology to which I replied 'why are you telling me this ?'

I should have said 'so what ! Who cares ?'

[Redd Foxx]

Why are we using 10 opponents for Ward and only 5 for Kovalev? Im curious.

I'm guessing it's to make it more fair. If you look at Ward's past 5, you're going to have landslide #'s. Digging back to 10 gives a more balanced figure since some of his best comp was a few fights back.

Now matter what sampling you take, the numbers will certainly favor Ward. But, I believe that when you're dealing with highly intelligent fighters, it becomes more of a "styles make fights" scenario.

[Robbie Barrett]

Why are we using 10 opponents for Ward and only 5 for Kovalev? Im curious.

Maybe they're the only fights for Kovalev that compubox did?

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

I'm guessing it's to make it more fair. If you look at Ward's past 5, you're going to have landslide #'s. Digging back to 10 gives a more balanced figure since some of his best comp was a few fights back.

Now matter what sampling you take, the numbers will certainly favor Ward. But, I believe that when you're dealing with highly intelligent fighters, it becomes more of a "styles make fights" scenario.

Maybe they're the only fights for Kovalev that compubox did?

I think Foxx might have a point here.

[youbeight]

Quite a comparison he have here!...

Ward: numbers in 10 fights (over 7 years span)...
Kovalev: numbers in 5 fights (less than 2 years)...

still thinks he pulls out the fight ?

[Citizen Koba]

I'm guessing it's to make it more fair. If you look at Ward's past 5, you're going to have landslide #'s. Digging back to 10 gives a more balanced figure since some of his best comp was a few fights back.

Now matter what sampling you take, the numbers will certainly favor Ward. But, I believe that when you're dealing with highly intelligent fighters, it becomes more of a "styles make fights" scenario.

I suspect you're right about the range of fights chosen, though worth noting that a larger range for Kovalev ie. taking his last 10 (back to say, White or Campillo) would have balanced things somewhat.

One thing I do notice is that while Ward does land slightly more in total, one of the only metrics I find useful in Compubox, ratio of Landed punches to opponents landed punches (which you usually have to work out for yourself) is virtually identical, with just a slight edge to Kovalev. Both guys reduce their opponents connects to very low numbers - with Ward, they still throw but miss a lot, with Kovalev they hit when they throw, but their output is drastically reduced.

[angkag]

Interesting analysis - would be most interested in Ward's LAST 5 fights vs the 5 before as a part of this. The feeling is that he has lost something, don't know what, but watching him vs. Kessler he looked far sharper than recently.

Maybe he'll have it back tonite....we'll see, not long now,