沃德的主教练 维吉尔亨特在接受媒体采访时说道：“击倒科瓦列夫是有可能的，我从不会训练沃德去刻意击倒对手，这在我们一起备战中只出现过两次，一次是备战查德 道森 ，还有这次备战科瓦列夫二战。
“[A knockout]is a possibility,” Hunter said. “I’ve only trained Andre to purposefully knockout somebody twice – the first one was Chad[Dawson], thesecond one was this one. I never trained him to knock anybody out, but thosetwo I did. Only twice have we changed strategy to stop somebody - See more at:Ward destroyed Dawson, then the lineal light heavyweight champion, in theirSeptember 2012 fight in Oakland, California. Dawson moved down tosuper middleweight for that bout, but hadn’t lost by knockout or technicalknockout before Ward dropped him in the third, fourth and 10th rounds on hisway to winning by 10th-round TKO. Dominating Dawson represented the biggest knockout winagainst an elite-level opponent in Ward’s 12-year pro career. Ward and Hunterapparently learned something from his first fight against Kovalev that makesthem think the former champion will be susceptible to a knockout in theirrematch at Mandalay Bay Events Center (HBO Pay-Per-View;$64.99 in HD; 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT). “Me knowing Andre’s mindset and how heapproaches things, I told him that we’ll train for a knockout,” Hunter said.“It doesn’t mean it’s going to come, but we’ll train for it. It’ll be quiteevident in the fight. He’s going to get hit because you got to get hit to winand get knockouts. He’s been hit by Sergey and he described the punches just asI see the punches on TV – very sharp. Not concussive, but sharp.” - See moreat: http://www.boxingscene.com/virgi ... thash.fQ1ID0LC.dpuf | 
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