Is Sergei Kovalev an unstable sociopath?

[Earl-Hickey]

Kovalev once had a boxing match with a guy who later died from his injuries.

This has happened before in boxing, it sadly does occur, at other times fighters sustain life changing injuries or brain damage.

Ordinarily in these situations the other fighter is severely impacted mentally by the tragedy too.

People who know nigel benn know he is deeply wounded by what happened to Gerald Mclellan and it haunts him to this day and will continue to do so. This is usually what happens.

On the other hand you have Sergei Kovalev, a guy who has been involved in a "death fight" who walks around grinning, thinking it highly amusing to talk about opponents dying, or going to the hospital, or being seriously injured by him, with no signs of remorse or any taste whatsoever about what happened.

This is deeply concerning to me that we have a high profile fighter in the sport who is that devoid of compassion. Kovalev, to me is the sort of person who could go Edwin Valero at any moment, and we find out he beat his girlfriend or kids to death or something like that.

At the very least the sanctioning bodies need to start putting some serious consequences on him for the trash statements he keeps coming out with. If he was a british fighter the BBOC would have given him a lengthy ban by now and he'd have been heavily fined as well.

But he just seems to get away with it, the guy is seriously lacking in class

[Real King Kong]

More of a stable sociopath

[vman075]

Kovalev once had a boxing match with a guy who later died from his injuries.

This has happened before in boxing, it sadly does occur, at other times fighters sustain life changing injuries or brain damage.

Ordinarily in these situations the other fighter is severely impacted mentally by the tragedy too.

People who know nigel benn know he is deeply wounded by what happened to Gerald Mclellan and it haunts him to this day and will continue to do so. This is usually what happens.

On the other hand you have Sergei Kovalev, a guy who has been involved in a "death fight" who walks around grinning, thinking it highly amusing to talk about opponents dying, or going to the hospital, or being seriously injured by him, with no signs of remorse or any taste whatsoever about what happened.

This is deeply concerning to me that we have a high profile fighter in the sport who is that devoid of compassion. Kovalev, to me is the sort of person who could go Edwin Valero at any moment, and we find out he beat his girlfriend or kids to death or something like that.

At the very least the sanctioning bodies need to start putting some serious consequences on him for the trash statements he keeps coming out with. If he was a british fighter the BBOC would have given him a lengthy ban by now and he'd have been heavily fined as well.

But he just seems to get away with it, the guy is seriously lacking in class

If you know Kovalev's story, it has been reported many times that Kovalev doesn't like to speak about the "death fight" because it is something he doesn't like to think about. He obviously doesn't find it highly amusing. All of his talking now about injuring an opponent is because Pascal (who was catching the beating of a lifetime)is claiming that the referee stopped the fight too early. Kovalev has said the ref saved you from injury and maybe saved your life. This has to stop being blow out of proportion. I remember one poster on here was saying that Kovalev shouldn't be allowed to box because he takes killing lightly and we can't have a guy going into the ring with the intentions to kill.

[punchr]

Kovalev probably does think about the man he killed. However Russia is a very unapologetically masculine country. And Kovalev is simply the product of his environment. The cream of the crop.

[Eff Pandas]

Yea I think its a fair bet he's a sociopath or something along those lines based on most guys seemingly never being the same themselves after fights where opponent died or was severely physically damaged.

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

a functioning socialpath!

War Kovalev he gets my full support!

[Sweet Pea 50]

Possibly.

So it might be a discretion is the better part of valor type of deal for an opponent, take what he says with a heightened sense of gravity, and keep the trash talking to a minimum.

[Southpawology]

Kovalev is a pure savage, and I love it. He might be an unstable sociopath but he has an outlet for it (boxing). If he were to have a profession in an office setting (for example) it would be a problem. Being a cold hearted, blood lusting, savage is an advantageous trait to possess as a professional boxer. Kovalev is a born fearless warrior.

[HanzGruber]

Yea I think its a fair bet he's a sociopath or something along those lines based on most guys seemingly never being the same themselves after fights where opponent died or was severely physically damaged.

This. I wouldn't think anything of it if he continued to fight like normal, but to say how he wants to end guys careers so they never fight again lol the guy is not all there

[Beercules]

Hail the king


I did read something about how he doesn't like to talk/think about the fighter that died though.

I think Pascal just pissed him off and Kovalev has a short fuse. Plus he's Russian, they're nuts.