Sergey Kovalev Halts Couragous Jean Pascal in Round Eight
“It was a good fight for the fans, an action fight. I did my best,”
Pascal said. “I don’t want to take anything away from Kovalev. He’s a
great champion but that was a bullshit stoppage because I was still in
the fight. That was a tough fight for both of us, and I don’t know why
the referee just stopped the fight. It’s not hockey.
“I was in the fight from the first round. I’m sure that I gave him his toughest fight. We should do it again. We should have a rematch.”
Pascal, 32, traded blows with the unbeaten WBA, IBF and WBO king over the first two rounds before taking a count in the third when a thunderous right hand draped him over the ropes. The former WBC champion – whose young daughter was taken from ringside in tears – struggled to clear his head in the fourth but provided just enough retaliation to keep him in the fight.
“I was in the fight from the first round. I’m sure that I gave him his toughest fight. We should do it again. We should have a rematch.”
Pascal, 32, traded blows with the unbeaten WBA, IBF and WBO king over the first two rounds before taking a count in the third when a thunderous right hand draped him over the ropes. The former WBC champion – whose young daughter was taken from ringside in tears – struggled to clear his head in the fourth but provided just enough retaliation to keep him in the fight.
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