Kovalev interview with Russian boxing site

[Dr Rumack]

Kovalev is blaming his conditioning on training in high altitude? LMAO really?

High altitude is the best possible training for a fighter's stamina.

Think of all the high altitude fighters. They never gas.



GGG. Oscar. Everyone from Greg Jackson's training camp. Diego Sanchez. Holly holm. Jon Jones. Carlos Condit. Donald Cerrone. if it's one thing high altitude fighters are known for it's their stamina.



if he wants to make his career a priority. he needs to move there like GGG did. lol



going there and catching a cold is his own dedication problem.

Not commenting on Kovalev's case but it's not as simple as just going to high altitude. A trainer has to know how to train someone at high altitude and the adjustment/readjustment periods have to be managed properly too. It can actually diminish sea level performance if it's done incorrectly. Again, I don't know if this is the case with Kovalev.

[Dr Rumack]

You only have to listen to American trainers talk about S&C coaches to see that most of them don't understand it. Doesn't necessarily mean that they're bad boxing coaches but its easy to see where Kovalev is coming from in his criticism. Training every fighter like they are the same athlete and believing that volume = quality.

[Dr Rumack]

making excuses lol, well he can hate american trainers all he wants American and British trainers and fighters rule the sport

Hopkins said the exact same thing as Kovalev. Boxing is full of trainers and has very few educators.

[soul_survivor]

Kovalev is blaming his conditioning on training in high altitude? LMAO really?

High altitude is the best possible training for a fighter's stamina.

Think of all the high altitude fighters. They never gas.



GGG. Oscar. Everyone from Greg Jackson's training camp. Diego Sanchez. Holly holm. Jon Jones. Carlos Condit. Donald Cerrone. if it's one thing high altitude fighters are known for it's their stamina.



if he wants to make his career a priority. he needs to move there like GGG did. lol



going there and catching a cold is his own dedication problem.

he isnt blaming high altitude in itself ,he is blaming high altitude training for too long which is not the way to go. The body needs time to acclimatise back at "normal" levels.

[VatoMulatto]

If Kovalev wants to move on with his career without JDJ. I have a feeling JDJ will go online and blast Kovalev. They don't seem to have a great relationship at all. I see an ugly split in the near future where everything turns into a war of words.

[Kigali]

If Kovalev wants to move on with his career without JDJ. I have a feeling JDJ will go online and blast Kovalev. They don't seem to have a great relationship at all. I see an ugly split in the near future where everything turns into a war of words.

You can see it about to boil over.

[M Bison]

making excuses lol, well he can hate american trainers all he wants American and British trainers and fighters rule the sport

Nobody cares about American fighters anymore that bum on your sig only had 12k twitter followers lol how unheard of can a world champion from USA be?
You Yanks don't care about Boxing you're now the biggest MMA fans of the world simply put Boxing is dead over in the US.

[NEETzsche]

And today I'm at ease with how it went, at ease with my defeat. If I got the W I would remain everything as it were thinking I did all the things correctly, but I didn't.

I'm pretty glad to hear him say that, because the way John David Jackson has been insisting that Kovalev clearly won the fight was making me concerned that he wouldn't be able to up his game for the rematch

However, I don't agree that Kovalev got nothing from JDJ. He clearly looks an improved fighter in some aspects since they've been together. The Hopkins performance in particular was a masterclass and I think JDJ played a big role in that. But the fact that Kovalev is even having these thoughts means they need to split. The trust is clearly gone

Having someone who speaks his language and who is on the same page culturally in his corner will probably do him some good

[Dr Rumack]

If Kovalev wants to move on with his career without JDJ. I have a feeling JDJ will go online and blast Kovalev. They don't seem to have a great relationship at all. I see an ugly split in the near future where everything turns into a war of words.

JDJ will have no choice. He has to defend his professional reputation. And Kovalev isn't the diplomatic type.

[Weltschmerz]

Thanks for this one Rumack..

yeah that must be an end to the JDJ relationship. Which I think is a correct decision too.