Considering Kovalev killed someone in the ring do you find him distasteful?

[Chrismart]

His sound bites grab attention. He's like a Rocky Balboa opponent in a movie.

[Deevel916]

It's boxing. Not ping pong. As a fighter, if you feel the sport is too dangerous for you then stick to something else. This is the hurt business and the objective is to take your opponent out at all costs (within the rules of course).

I like his seek and destroy attitude. Much prefer it over pot shotting for points.

[_original_]

I personally like his attitude, not the whole killing incident because that's an entire different discussion. He's a mean dude and he's in the right sport.

However, it's funny a lot of these posters love Kovalev's attitude yet crap on a guy like Broner for saying pretty silly and harmless stuff in comparison to Kovalev given his history.

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

kovalev is everything a fighter should be.

PR fighters should take note. Damn pansies always taking knees and ****.

[DreamerUSA]

As a fighter, I love the guy and his attitude. The goal is to knock mother****ers out. When you put away your panties, and realise the massive trauma involved in knocking people out, I'm not exactly sure wtf people are crying about. Maybe you should find a new sport to love if you want to hate on someone looking to blast a guy out of the ring. Also as far as breaking someones nose or whatever. Why would'nt you want to break a guys nose? Why would'nt you want to bust someone up with cuts if you can?

Also to the couple people that claimed he should be remorseful. Look up the meaning of the word. In order to be remorseful you have to do something to someone that is wrong. Maybe empathy is the word you're looking for, but that has no place in a ring.

[Helm]

It's clear that all boxers, more or less, DO LIKE to hurt other people.

I think that Kovalev feels sorry for the guy that passed away, but at the same time he realizes that this was an accident that could happen to him and to anybody in that sport and accepted that as it is.

Regarding interviews, he probably say that kind of things mainly for marketing purpose and selling his ring persona.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

I'm fairly sure it was an accident so I don't see why I would find him distasteful for that.

The fact that he's clearly a bit of a racist is more distasteful.

[BattlingNelson]

[SalimShady1212]

Kovalev didn't intentionally hurt anyone, what happened was tragic but it comes with the territory. This is as they say the hurt business. It also happened to Mike Perez but he's never mentally recovered from it.

[sunny31]

He is a good fighter but I don't like him, and I suspect if he is randomly tested you are not going to see the same destructive power...make of that what you will, but the whole build up to the Pascal fight has made me very su****ious.

Now here is the thing - if he is randomly blood and urine tested in the future and comes out positive where does that leave him? Taking into consideration what has happened. Obviously this is all conjecture at this point, but I have never really seen power like his. I mean you can't really see where its coming from. There has been guys in the past where they hit like trains and were skinny and lanky, probably the most high profile was Tommy Hearns, but the Hitman used to swing, and had pretty impressive speed. The leverage he was getting was there to see, even if it was remarkable to look at.

When you observe Kovalev - his jabs are thudding, he has steadied world class fighters with proven chins with jabs, no matter how he lands his right hand, every time he does the other guy is in trouble. He is not particularly strong looking, he doesn't have big legs, or a huge back like GGG. He doesn't throw fast punches, and he isn't exactly winging these punches in, they are often straight and not fast. For these reasons I am skeptical. If the guy is clean I will hold my hands up and he wouldn't be the first freak of nature of this kind in boxing, but it is definitely not normal and worth questioning.