Comments Thread For: John David Jackson: Sergey Kovalev is a Real Assh*le - He Quit!

[hitking]

Why would Floyd be difficult to work with? By all accounts he's the most disciplined guy of his generation. Just curious on this point?

Yep. Floyd was extremely disciplined and trained hard for every fight. Not only that, by all accounts, he trusts and relies almost 100% on his team for game planning heading to a fight and doesn't watch film. Of course a lot of the in-fight adjustments are in him. But he's not difficult at all to work with. I think the most difficult thing about working with Floyd is his vampire hours and spontaneous workout sessions. I imagine being woke up at 2 or 3 in the morning because Floyd wants to take a jog. Or being woke up crazy hours because he feels like going to the gym probably gets annoying. But as a trainer, I'd rather have that extreme than the extreme a guy like Chavez Jr brings. Which is about a 180 from Floyd.

[robbyheartbaby]

Interesting article, feel for Jackson if this has merit to it. Maybe Kovalev is the POS (Piece of s***). Ward is the king and fought a great fight against Sergey, hope some of this is out of proportion to the truth but who knows.

[Boxing Goat]

JDJ is a traitor. I would have tried to cut his pay too if he was in talks with my future opponent. That's bullsh@t. I hope this fool never gets a top ranked fighter to train ever again. He probably told Ward what to do in the fight to get an edge.

[Sledgeweather17]

You aint gotta be no genius to see that Kovalev is a piece of shieeet! However, JDJ, in his retaliation, has stooped just as low, or maybe even lower than Kovalev. From the outside he doesn't come off any better than Kovalev does, if anything he comes off worse.

Both yawl are pieces of shieeet as far as I'm concerned.

[iamboxing]

I don't understand what Jackson is trying to achieve with his rant. It just makes him look like someone who won't keep anything confidential, even if what he's claiming is true. I get the bit about defending himself from Kov saying he was to blame for the loss and issues with payment, but the whole selfish thing, and he's a bad role model for Russia and has an emblem on everything is womanly and pathetic.

[GodLike]

Not a very classy thing to do by JDJ but at the same time people don't go and air out **** like this for no reason, sounds like kovalev is a dirt bag also. like attracts like.

[IlikeBikeTython]

yeah fair enough, just think JDJ should have acted with some class and dignity instead of deciding to air kovalevs dirty laundry to everyone.

That's fair, but I look at it from the point of view of, look at how long JDJ did keep his mouth shut and refused to air any dirty laundry about Kov. He's doing interviews for years talking Kov up while behind the scenes Kov treatin him like ****, tryin to cut his purse every fight, not listening to him or training right. Each fight each camp was worse than the one before, yet he kept his mouth shut until enough became enough. If Kov never respected JDJ or the loyalty he showed him up u til that point by keeping his mouth shut that whokr time, JDJ doesn't owe Kov anything and is well within his rights to tell us what it was like having to deal with a selfish bastard like Kov. By the way, I rooted for Kov in both fights against SOG

[Jewish-Reptile]

If Steverson strait left blasts him to the body it's over.

Stevenson would leave the ring on a stretcher within an oxygen mask on if he fought Kovalev, hence why that fight ain't never gonna happen.

Anyway Ward vs Stevenson is the fight we all wanna see now, but we all know Stevenson will face Jack in a year and do nothing for another year before rematching him, no doubt we'll get the trilogy in 2019 then he'll retire.

[BoxHec]

Hahaha finally some truths coming from team Kovaleva!

[steady_p]

JDJ says he's been trying to teach Kovalev for years how to fight inside... that proves he's a terrible trainer! Kovalev is not an inside fighter. He should have been teaching Kovalev how to HOLD inside like Floyd does, since apparently that's allowed now, until the referee breaks you back to distance. Or, if the ref doesn't do that because he's bought off for Ward, then you learn how to push off the opponent from the inside back to range. Hold him inside when he's trying to get in, then once he tries to break the clinch by pulling back, use his own momentum against him to push him back outside.

Kovalev did try to fight inside vs Ward, right in line with the bull**** JDJ admits trying to fill Kovalev's head with, and that mistake is what even made the fights competitive. He should have avoided that altogether.

It's just like JDJ told Kovalev if Ward tries to fight inside, to "keep hitting him in the ribs until you break his ribs." Let me ask any knowledgeable boxing trainer, when is the last time a top 50 boxer in the sport got his ribs broken period, by any punch? It almost never happens, not even with great punches. But for JDJ to think that inside arm punches by Kovalev would break Ward's ribs? Are you ****ing kidding me? All Kovalev throwing at Ward's ribs inside with one arm meant in reality is that it also freed up Ward's arm to throw back inside. In other words, that terrible piece of advice from JDJ is what allowed the inside fighting to take place in the first place. He literally told Kovalev to instigate the inside fighting, instead of try to avoid it.

So JDJ is absolutely to blame here. What top boxer has he ever trained? He got Kovalev when Kovalev was already a top boxer, simply because JDJ was one of the only name trainers in the Florida area and I guess he knew Don Turner who knew Kathy Duva, or something, and since then Kovalev's stamina has steadily declined. It sounds like their training methods are outdated and they overwork their fighters, only to then go public blaming their fighters when they want to train in a more modern fashion. And as we can see here, his tactical advice has ranged from good but obvious (in the Hopkins fight, where they still failed to get the KO they should have gotten easily however), to catastrophic in the second Ward fight, and he's seemingly fed the opponent info on his own fighter going into the biggest fight of his career. He's as much to blame as
anyone besides Kovalev for listening to him.

Totally agree. You couldn't have done a better and more realistic analysis of how things have gone between Kovalev and JDJ. And i would also add that JDJ should have teached to his guy 'if someone beat you in the balls once, you go back to their balls twice!'.
But unfortunately things have gone in another way...