Kovalev apologizes for tweet.

[Rip Chudd]

What? Racist folks had black folks raising their children. So you mentioning him having a black trainer means squat to me.

And anytime a black person is called a monkey it's racist. That's a racial slur that we've dealt with for years and STILL do.

Look boy, the white man apologized. Now you sit there and accept it. I mean he didn't really even have to do that so you should be grateful.

[V.WEBB]

Look boy, the white man apologized. Now you sit there and accept it. I mean he didn't really even have to do that so you should be grateful.

The world in a nutshell.

That's crazy.

[Box-Office]

Kovalev didn't arrive in U.S. last week, but years ago.

However, this type of off color humor is acceptable in his head because he grew up in an ethnically ****genous area and didn't have to worry about offending people.

Again, I call B.S. on his apology.

[YOU WILL LOSE]

so now russian immigrants who come to this country in the 2009 have to apologize for **** he had no part in and that happened hundreds of years ago. insanity

[Tay Roc]

This racist bastard above me.

Wish you would talk crazy like that to me in person.

Would you ram him with those crazy bumps on your forehead?

[General STRUGG]

Kovalev just proved what a good champion he is.

[Beater_of_ass]

blacks make the same observations amongst other blacks and that's somehow acceptable.

the truth is not all black people resemble monkeys or apes. stevenson just happens to look like one. hell even people from other races can look like one. have y'all seen nick nolte?

I don't really think most things are racist... well jokes etc, I understand racism is a real thing. Usually it takes a lot to offend me, the monkey pictures are pretty offensive and I'm not even black. But for some reason while I feel bad about the Stevenson pics, the Nick Nolte picture is just ****ing hilarious and it broke the tension in the thread.

On topic, I'm pretty sure Kovalev isn't a racist, he's just Russian. I get that ignorance especially at this point of his career isn't much of an excuse. But what's the punishment? Should he be banned/suspended/fined by some invisible entity? Live and learn, if it happens again he'll just end up costing himself fans which is punishment enough.

[Francis M.]

Kovalev is a piece of crap for that post... I'm just surprised that the same guys having issues with his apologies are the same fools ignoring all of Floyd's misgivings as all humans are not perfect or some bs like that?

[CANELOLUJAH]

nothing to apologize about in my book, it was funny but people are too sensitive.

[Weebler I]

Reported for reporting.

Kovalev's full of ****, he knew what he was doing. War fonfara!

I really don't think he realised the full implications of it. Whenever he posted pics of Hopkins and Stevenson before it was always with humor, I expect this was supposed to be the same way but he got it wrong.

are the russians the n***** of europe?

What do you mean?