Is this Kovalev without Meldonium?

[KingHippo]

Same reason people have a cup of coffee in the morning at work. It DOES 'enhance your performance', just like a million other things. It does not mean that it's angeldust and will make you impervious to pain, or that it's spinach and will give you popeye strength.

My point is that if it takes 40+ years for something to be linked to enhancing performance, the affects are minuscule.

No women would risk her livelihood and potentially millions of dollars worth of endorsements for a placebo.

I doubt you have any understanding of pharmacology, so I don't know where you get your information from.

Truth is you have no idea what the drug does, you're just trying to dismiss the drug because it makes your favourite fighters look bad.

Do yourself a favor and go watch povetkin vs Marco huck. Then watch his fight against Mariucz Wach and tell me this kind of stamina is natural.

[b00g13man]

I noticed Maxi has been trying to **** on Kovalev lately. Expect more of it as the Ward fight gets closer. He wants to make sure Ward gets ZERO credit if he beats Kovalev so he has to downplay Kovalev

Ha! Makes sense now I think about it.

[mathed]

wrong Pascal never offered to pay for VADA he wanted another agency and he himself declined VADA

http://www.boxingscene.com/kovalev-requests-vada-testing-counters-pascals-attack--86584

Damn, sounds like OP done fell in a hole with this thread.

[1g5a22]

No I think its Kovalev having an off day.. Calzaghe, Hopkins, Ward all have em! Its because we hold SK to such high standards that this performance which was a clear cut win over Chilemba anyway (who never makes anyone look good.. Sort of a LHW Sergio Mora!) that when he doesn't look the dominant anlmal we all know think he gets criticised more widely! More focus is on Kovalev than other fighters.. Anyone whom had beaten Chilemba in that fashion other than SK would have been highly praised! It will no doubt spur him on to be better next time.. I buy it that he was ill!

[Zaroku]

I don't want to speculate: big can of worms. But, he seemed hungry to eat plenty of leather. Maybe it was on off night.

I love Ward, but I do not hate Kovalev.

Let the best man win... I am unsure of who to bet real money on...

Still thinking...

[1g5a22]

I agree he needs to pace himself better & be more accurate against Ward but people are over egging the performance or lack of. It was fairly dominant & again his power shone through.. If that is SK at 70% then WOW!

[NEETzsche]

meldonium is only available in russia and eastern europe

kovalev lives and usually fights in the USA

if he's on PEDs it'll just be the same stuff that the americans are on

[12TRIBEsRiSe]

or maybe he was really sick, something was off tho

[-Antonio-]

Meldonium is not even thst big of a deal. I swear these testing organizations are actually worse for the sport. Yhese athletes can't even take supplements from GNC or they get popped. If you've taken any type of pre workout or post workout recently, chances are you'd get popped for PED's too.

[aldo5408]

No I think its Kovalev having an off day.. Calzaghe, Hopkins, Ward all have em! Its because we hold SK to such high standards that this performance which was a clear cut win over Chilemba anyway (who never makes anyone look good.. Sort of a LHW Sergio Mora!) that when he doesn't look the dominant anlmal we all know think he gets criticised more widely! More focus is on Kovalev than other fighters.. Anyone whom had beaten Chilemba in that fashion other than SK would have been highly praised! It will no doubt spur him on to be better next time.. I buy it that he was ill!

The great Calzaghe never had an off day