Why are people still defending Kovalev's racist comments?

[Banderivets]

I hope Kov suffers some sort of brain injury in his upcoming fight. Or dies.

WoW...talk about adequacy.

[takingaim]

I hope Kov suffers some sort of brain injury in his upcoming fight.

And then he'll be as dumb as you!

[J The UnBiased]

It's ok folks, Kovalev didn't say blacks were inadequate. Kovalev didn't say he doesn't like blacks. Kovalev didn't call anyone a purebred n.gger. All he said was Negro, which is acceptable in various countries throughout the world. That's obviously the main issue, because he never said any of the things that I highlighted. Because if he did, that would be, kinda racist? Right? And then it would be pretty hard to defend that, right? Thank god, all he said was negro and that he never said all that other stuff.

[AVDB]

I hope Kov suffers some sort of brain injury in his upcoming fight. Or dies.

[hectari]

It's ok folks, Kovalev didn't say blacks were inadequate. Kovalev didn't say he doesn't like blacks. Kovalev didn't call anyone a purebred n.gger. All he said was Negro, which is acceptable in various countries throughout the world. That's obviously the main issue, because he never said any of the things that I highlighted. Because if he did, that would be, kinda racist? Right? And then it would be pretty hard to defend that, right? Thank god, all he said was negro and that he never said all that other stuff.

Yet you completely ignore the situation he described, what is your view of the black sparring partner who elbowed the white boxer, and than when he got his butt kicked came back with a gun and waved it in his face an threatened his life with it? I guess you have no problem with that black guys actions, because its okay only the white guy who said something about the black guys in his area is the bad guy who committed a ultimate sin.

I notice you only have a problem with racism when it concerns blacks

[J The UnBiased]

Yet you completely ignore the situation he described, what is your view of the black sparring partner who elbowed the white boxer, and than when he got his butt kicked came back with a gun and waved it in his face an threatened his life with it? I guess you have no problem with that black guys actions, because its okay only the white guy who said something about the black guys in his area is the bad guy who committed a ultimate sin.

I notice you only have a problem with racism when it concerns blacks

The black guy is a total imbecile and deserved more of a beating than he received. Good to know that that one experience generated an opinion on an entire group of people.

[Ogecca MaMa]

Lol, humans will be humans. I honestly don't mind the debate. But here are too many idiots around here who can't have that level of debate. So it typically turns out bad.

of course..

I happen to speak Russian and I have read that infamous interview and here is what I have to say on this whole thing.

First of all he used the word "negr" which is a common word for describing people of African descent. I know in Ukraine for example but in Ukrainian it is more common now to hear on TV the term "temno shkiryi" which means "dark skinned" which is the equivalent of the American term "black." But "negr" is still a very common that does not carry any negative connotation.

When Kovalev talks about his experiences in America he is obviously going to try to give some description of the people that he is dealing with, so he is going to say "tanned guys"....BTW the term in Russian for tanned is "zagarelyi" which literally means burnt, so this is something your google translation will not catch.

There are other terms to be used if he wanted to refer to an African with ill intent, such as "nigg3r" pronounced "knee-gear"

And anyway everything is being taken out of context.

You have to remember that Eastern Europeans have no connection to Western colonization, hence they do not simply give a **** about racial and political issues faced by Americans, the English, the Dutch, the Spaniards etc...So they do not feel the need to be politically correct around issues they have zero relation too just because they happen to share the continent or the skin colour of said conquistador.

Hence me personally when I immigrated to Canada felt and still feel no problem getting into a heated exchange with someone of another race because I do not feel that anything that I might say will hurt my opponent by bringing up some dark moments in history...Hey my oppressor was the Russian and the Polak not the African or the Chino.

I am not defending Kovalev, quite frankly I do not care what he says as much as I do not care much for what Hopkins says, I like both fighters.

But all of you need to step out of your American bubble and try to learn the world around you and how they perceive things.


If my goal is to demoralize my opponent I will use eveyrthing in my arsenal to make him feel bad. I'll call him skinny, fat, *****y, pasty, darkness whatever it is that will upset him. It does not for one second mean that I believe in the genetic racial superiority of one over the other because in this day and age to believe in that concept is to be ******ed.

[nubian]

All I hear is excuses from other racists. **** Kovalev let him get his head bashed in and die.

[A-Wolf]

They use '******' in that part of the world. Watch 'White Nights' (1985).

[hectari]

The black guy is a total imbecile and deserved more of a beating than he received. Good to know that that one experience generated an opinion on an entire group of people.

an entire group he was speaking about the ones in his area.

let me ask you why do people have this image of ****** black people in their mind? whose fault is it?