Irrefutable proof Kovalev is NOT racist

what fight is your sig from bro? Wilder/Szpilka when Szpilka got slept and his gf reacts. From the Russian telecast so they had a longer video of it than Showtime.

im not saying it is...im saying thats why people say hes racist ...its stupid

Man Kovalev is not racist...at least I don't believe so. Many people take things out of the cultural context. People call people "chimps" or "monkeys" in other countries all the time. If Kovalev called Gvozdyk a "chimp" no one would say he was racist. But he happened to call Adonis a "chimp" and wore the T-Shirt and now that makes him racist? He's Russian, he comes from a place were 98% of people look just like him. He's not privy to American cultural nuances. He also made a comment about a lot of the black guys in American gyms talking a lot of **** and being confrontational, where say east euros and latinos not so much. Was he wrong? I've went to plenty of gyms and ran enough YMCA ball to confirm that a fare share of black guys like to talk a lot of **** more so than others, but I've been around here long enough to know that it's all part of the game, and now do the exact same thing LOL...someone like Kovalev wouldn't know that. Does Kovalev need some cultural sensitivity training? I guess so yes, given that he spends a lot of time in the states. But to flat call him racist? I don't think so...and I don't particularly like the guy.

I enjoyed that racist Kovalev getting knocked out and his nuts crushed and it'll happen again. what fight is your sig from bro?

I enjoyed that racist Kovalev getting knocked out and his nuts crushed and it'll happen again.

Kovalev loves all black men except Adonis Stevenson that piece of shiet.

I want to see Kovalev get some cornrows and spit some bars, maybe even wear a white XXXL shirt. That's the only way to prove he isn't really racist. I'm a fan of his either way.

Irrefutable proof Kovalev is NOT racist ... go and tell Tony Weeks that Kova isn't racist... :)

I have no idea if Kovalev is or isn't racist. Getting his hair cut at a barbershop proves nothing. The fact that some of his countrymen are racist proves nothing either. I don't see the point of this thread.

Even if he is racist who can really blame him? He was raised in Russia where there are zero black people, is that his fault? Then he becomes a pro boxer in a sport dominated by race baiting blacks. He is ignorant of racial sensitivity, that is not being a racist IMO.

next there'll be a pic of kovalev getting his shoes shined by a black man..."see, he aint racist". Haha that’s damn near what I’m getting out of his thread too

im pretty sure its because he called adonis stevenson a piece of sh|+ Yeah, that's so racist.... Black trainer. .... Black fiends...... Black barber....... Nah, he's racist.

Case closed.

I don't know man. Salka didn't gain many fans with that wall on the trunks bull****. He became a bigger clown. Salka sucks and got KOd by a puerto rican. If Krusher went full Klan with how good he is and has been? It’s a diff story than Salka fighting a Mexican and suddenly coming out in wall trunks. If Krusher came out full klan’ed out and ko’in everyone...oh mah gawd. “Master race!”

Come on now. The dudes trainer was black. A racist wouldn't keep a black trainer for years.

Ah yes, guilty until proven innocent for purported white racists.

also proof: https://ruinmyweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/donald-trump-tweet-twitter-taco-bowls-i-love-hispanics.png

I don’t care if he’s racist. He’s a russian fighter. Who gives a f uck? I’m fine watching him Krush with one K and not three. Though... Imagine the amount of money he’d generate/make if he was an open member of the Klan and was american? They’d come out in droves. I’d watch. :|... I don't know man. Salka didn't gain many fans with that wall on the trunks bull****. He became a bigger clown.

Kovalev was never racist. Russians call people that they consider stupid monkeys. You guys love watching dash cam crahes, there are plenty of times when someone does something stupid he is called a monkey. That’s what it is. Kovalev called Stevenson a monkey because he considers him stupid. In american mentalitly, comparing blacks to primates is a racist move. In russia, whether you’re white, black, or anything in between, you do something dumb you might get called a monkey. But because he american boxing journalists don’t know that shlt, they cry racism even though they’re uninformed. We had the same thing with the Brian Nielsen and Mike Tyson fight here in Denmark. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2578342-the-travelling-man-recalling-the-five-occasions-mike-tyson-fought-overseas#slide5 There was controversy before the pair even met in the ring, with Nielsen using the term "abekat" to describe his rival at a press conference. Per ESPN.com's account of the fight, Tyson was not impressed when he was told the term meant "monkey man" when translated. He said in a statement, "This will make me punish him even more than I had planned." It was later revealed that the word was actually used in Danish to describe someone who acted foolishly, but the furore had helped raise the profile of the bout. In an interview with Ritzau, Poul Duvill, the trainer of Brian Nielsen said 'Tyson's camp talked about how Brian Nielsen were to be beating half to death and had to eat out of a tube after the fight. Them trying to make something out of this is just whining and hypocritical bullshít.' https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abekat

Come on now, let's not paint Russia as a place free of racism. Throwing bananas at black football players happens in Russia too. In fact, since the fall of the Soviet Union, there has been an explosion of far right groups including neo nazi skinheads beating up and murdering minorities. I don't know where you get your statistics from, but according to the lousy data I could get from quora, the estimation is 50,000 to 60,000 neo nazis in Russia. Or 0.04%. https://www.quora.com/Why-are-there-lots-of-Neo-Nazis-in-Russia-when-they-were-the-ones-defeating-the-Nazis And especially considering the death and violence has been dramatically decreasing, almost to the point of non-existence. https://www.sova-center.ru/en/xenophobia/news-releases/2016/01/d33598/ Data copied from Wikipedia: Year Deaths Injuries 2004 46 208 2005 47 461 2006 62 564 2007 85 605 2008 109 486 2009 84 434 2010 38 377 2011 20 130 2012 18 171 2013 20 173 2014 19 103 2015 9 68