Timeline of the last couple weeks
Ward not showing up to his own presser to promote/generate attention for the fight. (Presser was planned several weeks before it happened, Ward only a couple days before the presser said he will not attend)
If Ward didn't want to sit at the presser for an hour a couple days after the Brand fight, why was there not even one Roc Nation representative showing up to the press conference?
Ward, whether in the Jim Lampley interview nor in the ring with Kovalev never seemed eager to promote the Kovalev fight, seemed uninterested and absent.
Roc Nation suddenly preventing the Tickets to go on sale for the fight.
Roc Nation abruptly not agreeing to announce the venue for the fight - the T-Mobile Arena which was agreed on by both teams last year.
Roc Nation not putting out a statement and clarify this whole mess.
Does Roc Nation / Ward want to delay the fight, possibly circumvent the fight from happening?
This all seems really fishy to me. What is going on here?
Yea I know about all of that. She's been a name in NY sports for the last few years with the Arod debacle etc. I'm asrounded that he would give her so much power when essentially all she is is a chick who used to sell drugs and wound up managing a night club..
Yeah I remember that, had no idea she was a freakin coke mule at one point.
Apparently not. She's a real piece of work, too.
Taken from http://diaryofahollywoodstreetking.com/jayz-desiree-perez-informant/
Yea I know about all of that. She's been a name in NY sports for the last few years with the Arod debacle etc. I'm asrounded that he would give her so much power when essentially all she is is a chick who used to sell drugs and wound up managing a night club..
Welp. That explains a lot. For as intelligent as Jay is, he doesn't know how to keep snakes out his circle and business huh?
Apparently not. She's a real piece of work, too.
Taken from http://diaryofahollywoodstreetking.com/jayz-desiree-perez-informant/
Perez was a 26-year-old mother of young children in 1994 when she was arrested in New York for possession with intent to distribute 35 kilograms of cocaine.
Perez has really worked closely with agents, assistant U.S. Attorney Laurence Bardfeld told a judge that day, arguing to keep Perez out of jail.
Miami-based defense attorney Alan Ross told the judge that his client wore a wire on no less than the four or five occasions when she’s been down there in Puerto Rico.
‘And I think the court knows from its experience that you just can’t do anything more dangerous than wear a wire and go into an undercover meeting in Puerto Rico with a known violator, one whose (sic) suspected of — or being investigated for — a murder case down there.
Perez helped DEA special agents she worked with to bust Colombians moving cocaine shipments of 50 to 100 kilograms.
She has gone the extra mile.’
Perez was released that July and placed on five years of supervised release. She began working at nightspots in Miami Beach and was scheduled to meet her probation officer at one of them, Club Onyx, when she skipped town without notice in early August 1997.
The fugitive resurfaced nine month later in Brooklyn, where she was arrested on March 5, 1998. Perez was charged with grand larceny, criminal use of drug paraphernalia and criminal possession of a firearm.
Her probation was revoked and she was sentenced to nine months in prison and three years of supervised release.
Perez appears to have been in business with Jay Z since at least 2002.”
This is what's causing the hold up, according to Dan Rafael
Welp. That explains a lot. For as intelligent as Jay is, he doesn't know how to keep snakes out his circle and business huh?
This is what's causing the hold up, according to Dan Rafael
Chris (Brooklyn,NY)
Who's most to blame at RNS for this hold up, because I know it ain't Jay-Z who does nothing anyway?
Dan Rafael, King Fight Freak (12:15 PM)
It is all Desiree Perez, a top exec at the company. She alone is responsible for the issues.
You sound dumb, avoiding live bodies? He wasn't fighting anyone. After long layoffs u don't fight monsters. Barrera was a solid fighter
If he fights Kov in Nov, that's 5 years with a single Ring top 10 scalp, fcuking Edwin Rodriguez. Can you think of another p4per than needed multiple tuneups of Smith, Brand caliber? That got a fight nixed by the commission cause it's too much of a mismatch?
If the fight doesn't happen this year there will be plenty of blame to go around as both sides seem to have done things counterproductive to insuring the fight take place. I still don't know why the f#ck Main Events held a presser knowing Ward wasn't coming. She should have postponed that presser & been on the phone with RN or having someone else speak to RN to iron out whatever issues are still causing problems with things moving forward.
The funny thing with all this is I think Kovalev & Ward are both down to throw down, but I suspect Main Events & Roc Nation could f#ck up a 8 year olds birthday party.
Eh remember Ward crying how they're making him move up and fight Kovalev, double standards, and him saying he wrote his retirement letter then. That's on top of avoiding any live body for years. It's not just the promoters
I dont give a fuck what he thinks, what he thinks has absolutely no bearings on my life or how I live it. I watch boxing for entertainment and Kovalev brings that entertainment and ward does not. Simple as that, you race cry babies are some low I.Q. emotional ass nerds lmfao, Grow the fuck up.
Well said. Props.:hail:
Word on the street is if we don't hear anything in the next couple days to one week this fight might actually be in danger.
Will the Ward apologists and usual suspects put the blame on Kovalev and Main Events again if there are problems? I wonder.
Wouldn't than depend on why the fight didn't happen?
Word on the street is if we don't hear anything in the next couple days to one week this fight might actually be in danger.
Will the Ward apologists and usual suspects put the blame on Kovalev and Main Events again if there are problems? I wonder.
Ward not making any statements on his instagram or twitter and not doing any interviews. Coach Hunter not even doing any kind of interviews.
I dont think the fight happens. imo inthink ward was just cashing out with tune up one upping hbo .. notice how larry always says the same thing. How he never has any real input on the facts. Larry has been bringing his c game to the poster game.
Maybe just maybe Ward is treating this fight like the fight of his life which it certainly is. No interviews no bs just hardcore training. Kinda like Floyd v manny. Floyd cut most of his bs out for that fight.
It would have been just the first press conference, not the only one!
Canelo-Khan made 3 press c. in 4 days (London-NY-CA).Ward-Kovalev will do 3 city at max.Probably only two.
I dont give a fuck what he thinks, what he thinks has absolutely no bearings on my life or how I live it. I watch boxing for entertainment and Kovalev brings that entertainment and ward does not. Simple as that, you race cry babies are some low I.Q. emotional ass nerds lmfao, Grow the fuck up.
Top notch response fella! I tried green karma-ing you but you must have said something else awesome recently.
Krusher is a racist, and thinks of you as a spic *******. Go ahead and root against the non racist fighter. Dumbass
non racist??? ward coming from Oakland/Somalia??? you are the one that hates white people and latrinos well any one that aint black
you can't do press conference prior 3 months, it's too much, regular people will forget about the fight
It would have been just the first press conference, not the only one!
That's Mayweather and Canelo. They don't need to publicise or "sell" their fights to get huge viewing figures.. Ward and Kovalev do.
you can't do press conference prior 3 months, it's too much, regular people will forget about the fight
and the worst thing is some of you will applaud him for not fighting, 'kovalev doesnt define ward', 'wards got other options' etc
"Li'l g ducked Ward doe" :lol1:
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