Comments Thread For: Wilder: Can't Trust Russians; Stiverne Can't Beat Povetkin in Russia

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Deontay Wilder doesn't expect Bermane Stiverne to get a fair shot in Russia on Saturday. Canada's Stiverne has traveled there to regain a version of the WBC heavyweight title and earn another shot at Wilder, who beat him by unanimous decision in their January 2015 title fight in Las Vegas.
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[mlac]

yeah because Russia is such a known country to rob boxers....

oh no wait that's the U.S, germany and the U.K.

[BoxingFan85]

Well I think Stiverne is dirty too.. So no worries, they are letting them fight and iirc there hasn't been a robbery in Russia in a while now..

[MantisToboggan]

I wonder if wilder watched Kovalev vs ward fight lol

[rrayvez]

Americans can't beat Russians in Russia, Russians can't beat Americans in Vegas and nobody can beat Mexicans in Texas....Corruption is everywhere pretty equally.

[Bronx2245]

Don't be mad at Deontay! Don't "shoot the messenger!"

December 9, 2016:

LONDON — International sports’ antidoping watchdog on Friday laid out mountainous evidence that for years Russian officials orchestrated a doping program at the Olympics and other competitions that involved or benefited 1,000 athletes in 30 sports. The findings intensified pressure on the International Olympic Committee to reassess Russia’s medals from the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and penalize the nation ahead of the 2018 Winter Games.

The evidence, published by the World Anti-Doping Agency, was the coda to a set of investigations led by the Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren, who issued a damning report in July that prompted more than 100 Russian athletes to be barred from the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

The follow-up report outlined competitions that had been tainted by years of extraordinary preparations, ensuring Russia’s dominance at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the 2013 track and field world championships in Moscow and the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi — the “apex” of Russia’s cheating, the report said, because as the host of the event it controlled drug testing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/sp...port.html?_r=0

[Chrismart]

Russia, Germany, UK, USA...there are dodgy and questionable decisions in all the places. That's boxing.

[Dr Rumack]

Well certainly there’s no way a Russian gets popped fighting on home soil. But that problem is partially dealt with when you put an agency like VADA in charge of the testing process. The Russians might complain about VADA being American, but the agency has to come from somewhere and the Russians themselves have given up any right to do this stuff themselves. They are hopelessly corrupt. Worse than Texas

[Edward90]

We can argue about the shadiness of decisions for the hometown person. However, Russia takes the cake for doping allegations for 2016. I'm not talking about just boxing. Tennis, swimming, boxing, etc. From a doping standpoint, there is definitely reason to pump the brakes on fighting in Russia. However, bad decisions tend to favor the hometown hero, which Wilder wasn't really addressing in his comments, although people will bring up bad decisions as if he was...

[Cinci Champ]

hes not wrong