Comments Thread For: Sergey Kovalev: A lot of People Want Me To Finish Andre Ward

[A-Wolf]

Yes, they're on your band wagon now, Kovalev. But they have always wanted the fairer fighter to win. You should have seen how mad they were when your boy Ward spanked Kessler. Madder than they are now, no offense bud.

[Vegemil]

I love how both Kova and Ward are spinning this, "A lot of people...." ****ing idiots need to get back to training their fight is coming up.

[Vegemil]

Yes, they're on your band wagon now, Kovalev. But they have always wanted the fairer fighter to win. You should have seen how mad they were when your boy Ward spanked Kessler. Madder than they are now, no offense bud.

Yeah I wasn't mad that the fight was stopped due to constant headbutts. No it was the race war clearly going on in that ring.

[A-Wolf]

Yeah I wasn't mad that the fight was stopped due to constant headbutts. No it was the race war clearly going on in that ring.

Yes, race has nothing to do with anything ever. Especially in boxing.

[fantasy5021]

Andre "S.O.G." Ward wins again by UD.

I have no issue with ward winning. I like both fighters. i just feel ward needs to do a lot more adjustments.

[Vegemil]

Yes, race has nothing to do with anything ever. Especially in boxing.

It doesn't have everything to do with boxing either which is what you probably assume.

[A-Wolf]

Boxing is tribal. It's cultural, it's ethnic, its nationalistic.

Also, the sky is blue. Water is wet.

[gntsfan84]

Pretty sure most of the training is done for this fight. Usually during fight week they just work out the fine details and cut the rest of the weight. However, I am sure they are both required to do press to try and elevate the PPV buys which is why they are talking to the media.

[TyrantT316]

I don't get why some fans thinking that just because a fighter is commenting on their fight coming up, that they're not training...it makes no sense to believe that...

Fighters are to promote their fight, do press conferences, sometimes they're caught by the media in public and answer a simple question.

If a fighter is asked multiple questions throughout the week leading up to a fight, they'll answer them. It's the fans that take the single line headlines out of context because it seems like that fighter is spending ALL of their time talking...when in reality it's US spending most of our time reading the headlines...

Contrary to some belief, fighters have times where they're not training...even days where they're not training a FULL hardcore session...a fighter may train hard 3-5 days a week and light 1 or 2 days a week...they may have an off/recovery day where they take care of some media and promotion business...or before training, they're answering questions while being fitted for their sparring gloves...or they have a media session or photoshoot scheduled for 6PM, so they train frommornigng to 4PM, eat then go to their 6PM media interview and photoshoot...it's called multitasking at work guys.

The week of the fight, fighters aren't exactly training 24/7. They're keeping fit, warmed up, making sure they're not injuring themselves by pushing too hard, getting acclimated to the location of the fight and taking care of additional promotion and press conferences...it's the business...it's how it goes...every interview, every press conference, every photoshoot is meant to create continued awareness of the fight...that awareness creates more buzz and money for the promotion...the promoters get paid more, the staff, the hotels, the arenas, box office and eventually fighters % of gate and PPV...when these deals are made, say with the arena that hosts the fight...the venues may push to have a week-of press conference at their location because it benefits them...promoters may offer a percentage of gate and PPV so long as the fighter agrees to press dates and answer questions to promote the fight...many times all of these venues, staff, personnel, investors, etc are paid in advance...then the promoters are looking to recoup that money +more through a successful box office and PPV sales...at some point they need to front the money to book, staff and promote the event...all of this is done before money is even made from ticket/PPV sales...so they depend on a successful event to make that money back +profit.

This is part of the business...they're asked these questions...very specific questions like "were you hurt when you were knocked down in the first fight"....if he says "Yeah, I was hurt. I didn't see the punch coming." What does that do for his psyche? If he said that, fans would be all over him. So he may answer "it was a good shot, but I wasn't hurt"...then fans are all over him as if he's neglecting training to tour the world to initiate conversation about him not being hurt...

Mayweather recognized this...so he focused on being his own boss...playing his role one he realized people were painting him as a bad guy anyway...saw he made more money by being the guy everyone wanted to beat or see beat..so he kept it up as the gate and ppv numbers elevated...he spoke at every chance he could whether before training, after training, while sparing, on TV shows, press conferences, private interviews, photo and video shoots...etc...he put in that business and promotional work harder than anyone else while training harder than anyone else

this is business and media guys...nothing more...

[pretty ste]

People have beeen waiting for ward to get knock out since the super 6 but they keep failing is going to be funny sergio excuses after he takes back to back L