Comments Thread For: Kovalev Mocks Stevenson: "Call Me Kryptonite Kovalev"

[MDPopescu]

Yeah I never even referred to him as Krusher in it. Crazy how fighters read this stuff. I got Bernard mad with me once for calling him boring lol

They do read this board... They all do...

[observer]

Yep, Golovkin's boring too... KOs all of his opponents and doesn't get knocked down. No drama.

[devok088]

Adonis "Superman" Stevenson is the man. Nothing more needs to be said.

[MDPopescu]

Adonis "Superman" Stevenson is the man. Nothing more needs to be said.

Pimps are not men.

[CJ_Ross]

Kovalev is not bout dat life like some of you think. Adonis would hurt him

[takingaim]

He has specifically said that he knows there's good and bad people of all races - but he apparently called Grover Young (the guy who gave him the Draw on his record) a 'purebed ni##er' after he pretended Kovalev landed an illegal punch (which led to the fight being declared a draw).

There was also some comment about not always getting along with the 'sunburnt' people in Florida - this is translation from a Russian interview though, and I get the impression that this is not an uncommon Russian euphemism.

The impression I get is that Kovalev is in no way an active racist but both his cultural background - (I think there's simply a level of endemic racism in Russia that probably led to him being less cautious than he would have been had he been interviewed in English) and the fact he seems to have been chosen as a posterboy by at least one white supremacist website (through no choice of his own) has led to some attention being given to these comments.

Not that it's particularly relevent, but these comments were made a coupla years ago in Russian at a time when Kovalev was still fighting almost club level fights wherever he could find them. They were brought to the attention of internet users by some Kazakh fans apparently trying to discredit him after he criticised Beibut Shumenov for holding his WBA LHW belt hostage (which is true).

I'm searching for links, and I find no evidence he said any of this.

[Jloro]

Initially I thought this was a cool ass name, until I looked at the abbreviation

Hahaha damn Kovalev with those subliminal messages

[Chrismart]

It's the fight the fans want to see. I don't think Stevenson wants any of Kovalev though.

[Prince Mongo]

This is one fight I really want to see but I don't think Stevenson wants it. At 36 years old a KO loss is not going to do his career any good . The risk is too high and Broner is a lesson on what can happen when you bite off more than you can chew..

[Citizen Koba]

I'm searching for links, and I find no evidence he said any of this.

Kovalboxer.ru

You'll need google translate if you don't read Russian. And you'll have to trawl through a good few articles - but if you're a fan there's plenty of good biographical stuff.

As I said, the comments that were picked up were pretty banal - really kinda throwaway comments that were picked up by some rival fans and blown out of proportion - specially in context of the fact that they were some time ago and in Russian translation.