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Recently a huge article has been released on boxing scene about how JDJ the trainer for Kovalev called Andre Wards team and asked them if he could jump ship onto their team due to tensions with Kovalev not listening to his instructions in fights and in camp. The article can be found here: http://www.boxingscene.com/kovalev-t...d-team--117068
When the article was first released people of course had healthy skepticism about the authenticity of the article as Ward's team is known to play mind games and even admitted to spying on Kovalevs team to get inside information. However in the HBO Ward vs. Kovalev 2 preview released on May 30th, Kovalevs trainer JDJ (John David Jackson) admitted that Kovalev didn't WANT to listen to him because he brought another trainer from Russia to talk to him.
Jackson also states that this was the first time he ever saw this man and that he wasn't a fighter or trainer so he wondered why Kovalev brought him to the fight.
Go to 11:00 minutes and watch JDJ speak on it and since some people English isn't their first language or are not good at speaking it enough that they will catch on to what he is saying, I will put a transcript down below
Transcript: I'm with the fans going... seeing this fight here. Honestly Sergey brought another guy in from Russia to speak. So during the fight I was limited on what I could say. So how are you going to limit me on what I am gonna say when I have devised a plan for you to fight this kid. Now your going to another guy I don't know what he is telling you. I've never seen him fight, first time I seen him in my life. So I know he is not a boxer.
I guess the people believing that article were right... Sergey didn't listen to his head trainer and brought a random guy to help him? A rumor that has also been spread is that Sergey told JDJ to shut up so he could listen to the Russian guy speaking.
All of this doesn't make any sense to me. Why would Sergey bring a random guy over his trainer who spent months with him devising a plan to beat Ward? What are your thoughts guys? Will this affect the rematch?
When the article was first released people of course had healthy skepticism about the authenticity of the article as Ward's team is known to play mind games and even admitted to spying on Kovalevs team to get inside information. However in the HBO Ward vs. Kovalev 2 preview released on May 30th, Kovalevs trainer JDJ (John David Jackson) admitted that Kovalev didn't WANT to listen to him because he brought another trainer from Russia to talk to him.
Jackson also states that this was the first time he ever saw this man and that he wasn't a fighter or trainer so he wondered why Kovalev brought him to the fight.
Go to 11:00 minutes and watch JDJ speak on it and since some people English isn't their first language or are not good at speaking it enough that they will catch on to what he is saying, I will put a transcript down below
Transcript: I'm with the fans going... seeing this fight here. Honestly Sergey brought another guy in from Russia to speak. So during the fight I was limited on what I could say. So how are you going to limit me on what I am gonna say when I have devised a plan for you to fight this kid. Now your going to another guy I don't know what he is telling you. I've never seen him fight, first time I seen him in my life. So I know he is not a boxer.
I guess the people believing that article were right... Sergey didn't listen to his head trainer and brought a random guy to help him? A rumor that has also been spread is that Sergey told JDJ to shut up so he could listen to the Russian guy speaking.
All of this doesn't make any sense to me. Why would Sergey bring a random guy over his trainer who spent months with him devising a plan to beat Ward? What are your thoughts guys? Will this affect the rematch?
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