When one considers boxing records of great fighters, one must take into account that many undefeated fighters have benefitted from what my friend Oliver called "some home cooking" last night as we sat on his couch and watch the scumbag Las Vegas establishment award Andre Ward a decision over the man who beat him up for 7 out of 12 rounds, hunted him relentlessly for all 12 rounds and knocked him down in one round.

The entire fight Ward's mother was praying or in tears and the HBO judge was calling it for Kovalev, whose wife was waving their baby around like a battle flag. Kovalev's cornerman was pleased with the fight and Ward's cornerman sent him out with instructions to KO Kovalev in the last round for he could not hope to win a decision. This decision was that blatant. But we cannot have a Russian beating an American of such status, particularly not an undefeated American, for the risk-free, carefully-managed ascent to hall of fame perfection is the American athletic dream. As Ward tried, with acting aplom worthy of a Dindu on a Baltimore corner describing to the police how a pelican droped that bag of crack into his pocket as it flew over as part of a Hebrew conspiracy, scumbag Kellerman, the announcer who—in a just world—would be Bernard Hopkins' prison bitch, lied, and obfuscated and twisted the so recentky viewed past as the crowd hissed—as the Ward crowd hissed.

Then, when Kovalev stepped up he smiled and said, "This is the way, I am Russian in America, but there were witnesses," to which the crowd gave grim ascent to another nail driven into the coffin of it's once greatest sport by fat men and evil promoters—like scum bag Kellerman—to the detriment of fighters everywhere. Despite the rank sleaze wafting down to Hell, this fight was entertaining, competitive and instructive. The bout that should have been scored 116-111 Kovalev was scored unanimously, by three bought-off dog-souls, 114-113 Ward. Keeping in mind that Ward barely survived rounds 1-3 and was downed early and was being walked down relentlessly the entire fight, this scoring is atrocious and suspiciously uniform.

Kovalev scored more punches, more jabs, more power punches and did more damage while controlling the combat space and imposing his will in 9 out of 12 rounds. But this doesn't get him the win in American eyes any more than doing the same got American soldiers the win in Vietnam or Afghanistan. For when the rotten minds of our masters assign victory according to their own aims, then so is a fighter's metal tainted by the corrosive evil of the soulless system under which he fights.

Kovalev is a two-weapon fighter, with a vicious spearing jab and a hammering right hand. Ward is theoretically more rounded, but was reduced to countering with the left hook. The fact that neither fighter had a passing punch resulted in this situation.

If Kovalev would have had a passing hook he would have realized the terminus of the hunt for the battered Ward. If Ward would have had a pass hook, then he might have actually won the fight that the officials instead stole and gave to him, tainting his career with the American ethos of false perfection.