No drug testing kovalev-pascal

[Twako]

Duva & kovalev could've just done a Hopkins and stick that middle finger to pascal's face for making out of the contract demands and it would be just fine...instead they called pascal's bluff and are willing to do vada testing. For some reason though some idiots here would rather point the blame finger on Duva.

Why would Duva have kovalev take vada testing if pascal wouldn't? Kovalev will take vada and pascal, who trains with memo, will take any testing he wants...where's the fairness in that?

co-sign.

there's about 2 ******s on this thread who have no logic and can't really grasp the situation

[The Big Dunn]

Have you lost your mind? How often do promoters request Olympic style testing??? This is something the fighters do. Promoters stay out of that unless it's a request from their fighter.

One of the dumbest things I've heard all day, man, and I meant that with the utmost respect.

Seriously wtf are you thinking? Does Oscar de la hoya demand Olympic style testing every time he makes a fight for Canelo, et al? Does Top Rank demand Olympic style testing with all their fighters? Does Lou DiBella? Does Gary Shaw? No promoter does this, again, unless a specific fighter is asking for it. It's not their job or priority. Making the fight & promoting is. It would be on the personal fighter/manager, not the promoter.

Read the tweets, Kathy specifically stated she has the right to pick the protocol since her fighter is the champion. Now maybe you are correct here, but Kathy clearly has a different opinion. Which has been the basis of my argument.

Duva maybe just tweeted that trying to win the pr war. So if it's not the case, you need to tell her. Why didn't she ask kovalev in advance, especially since, as some are pointing out, memo is involved?

She knows damn well she'd have to pay for it I if her fighter requests it. What she does in every fight or another promotion does isn't the issue.

[emre belozoglu]

Why did Kovalev not want to take the test pascal would take?