There was a rare moment of unity in the boxing business at the end of Saturdays fight in Las Vegas when all three judges agreed on the score and both boxers demanded a rematch.Andre Ward won three light-heavyweight world title belts from Sergey Krusher Kovalev, but in his long battle for the hearts and pockets of boxing fans it is probably still a close fight. Ward is brilliant, a master in the boxing arts and has never received the respect his skills demand from the boxing public. He is not always slick on the eye, seldom gets a knockout in big fights and is just too darned nice.Ward survived a clean knockdown in round two when Kovalev found a rare hole in the Californian boxers brilliant defence; Ward went down heavy, smiled and jumped up quick. I smiled to say, OK, now the fight can start, said Ward.It was a fight of two very separate parts, seemingly divided equally between the two boxers; Kovalev won the first half and Ward the last six rounds. At the end the three identical scores of 114-113 were in Wards favour, he had swept rounds seven through twelve.Kovalev was desolate: I lost maybe three rounds. I want the rematch. Ward maintained his calm, his battered face a bruised accompaniment to his low-key victory speech: I had to get dirty to win and I did. I would have a rematch, sure.It is rare in a fight that divides ringside and television opinion for the judges to totally agree. It is odd, given the fact that only one point separated the pair, that people are screaming and hollering about a robbery. It was close, hard and Ward probably just deserved it. Kovalev certainly faded after six, a victim of the pace he set, Wards wrestling and possibly the years of shrinking his big body into the light-heavyweight limit have now become a real drain.Ward was in trouble in the first, down in the second and struggling in the first half of the fight. It has been a long time since Ward had a test in front of him, a long time since he dominated at super-middleweight with masterclasses against the divisions best Carl Froch, Mikkel Kessler and Arthur Abraham. He has been inactive, unimpressive and should have probably taken a hard warm-up instead of Kovalev, who had made the light-heavyweight division his personal playground since 2013.Kovalev and his promoter, Kathy Duva, went long into the night moaning about the mix of judges, the referee, some undisclosed issues Kovalev had, Wards holding. It was a familiar worn list from the lips of most first-time losers; if one of the judges had scored it wide in Wards favour their claims would have some validity. A rematch makes sense.Ward and Virgil Hunter, the man who has guided him for decades, praised the right people, complimented the deserving and slipped away. Ward made no bold claims about how clearly he had won the struggle. Its professional boxing, its not always going to be cute. I got up off the canvas and won ugly, said Ward. A rematch will mean big money, even more than the five million Ward was paid. Kovalev walked away with two million dollars. Both their reputations improved.They will probably do it again and when it happens Ward will be in better fight condition and Kovalev will know not to slip into Wards clutches. If they are both going to be better, it makes their second fight a genuine modern classic. It will still be tight, trust me. Julius Erving Nets Jersey . The recently retired Stern was elected Friday to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and will be enshrined with the class of 2014 on Aug. Kevin Durant Nets Jersey . After a first half in which he thought "the lid was on the basket," the Toronto Raptors coach watched his squad mount a second half surge to defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers 98-91. https://www.netsrookiesshop.com/ . Then the Pacers gave Oladipo and his Orlando teammates the cold shoulder. 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The ability of the West Indies and India teams to get US visas may be the biggest obstacle standing in the way of three T20s being staged between the two sides in Florida next month.BCCI and WICB officials held further discussions on Thursday afternoon at the Central Broward Regional Park in Lauderhill, site of the six CPL games in Florida beginning on Thursday. A source with knowledge of the discussions said that further progress had been made in coming to an agreement, but several logistical hurdles still needed to be overcome in order for the series to happen in Florida.The biggest one was the ability to secure visas to play in the USA. According to a source at the stadium, one issue that arose in the meetings was that it may take six weeks for India players to secure visas to get into the USA.The Central Broward Regional Park is the only ICC-certified ODI standard stadium facility in the USA and the only available dates that have been reserved for potential cricket use at the facility are from August 24-27, with August 28 potentially becoming available if another booking can agree to be moved..ddddddddddddThose dates were targeted by both cricket boards to play at the conclusion of the ongoing four-Test series, which is slated to end on August 22 in Trinidad.Immediate availability beyond that at the stadium is limited due to the stadiums main tenant, theFort Lauderdale Strikers, who play in the North American Soccer League, a second division league below Major League Soccer. The Strikers move into the stadium early next month as their new training base and venue for home games.The Strikers upcoming schedule includes home games on August 31, September 3 and September 10, leaving the stadium unavailable for cricket until at least mid-September. India is due to begin a three-Test series at home against New Zealand starting in Kanpur on September 22, making it unrealistic to play the games in the USA then.Further discussions between the BCCI and WICB will be held over the next few days before a final decision is taken whether to go ahead scheduling the matches. ' ' '