Comments Thread For: Sergey Kovalev Smiles, Reveals His New Trainer

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Former unified light heavyweight world champion Sergey "Krusher" Kovalev (30-2-1, 26 KOs) is training hard for his scheduled fight with Vyacheslav "Lion-Heart Chingonskyy" Shabranskyy (19-1, 16 KOs), which takes place on Saturday, November 25 at The Theater at Madison Square Garden. There were numerous questions rumors regarding Kovalev's new trainer, and the Russian boxer finally decided to reveal his new coach.
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[Holystroke3]

Good luck to that guy

[Bobby Deez]

Good luck to that guy

Would've been funny if he said deez motha****in nutz thats who.. I would've laughed my own damn set, cuz.

[GFunk23]

All that drama about potentially linking up with someone like Virgil Hunter and he goes with a Russian amateur coach. Nice comfortable choice for Kovalev Is anyone giving this guy real advice about his career? So happy Ward stopped this guy. Would like to see Berbetiev gets his mitts on Kovalev.

[Tatabanya]

Krusher saving money for Christmas presents.

[Lou Cipher]

Options:

A. Trainer who will make me train and cost me a lot of money.

B. Yes man who will work for beer and ******* and do what I train him to train me to do.

Hmmmm........

[Boxing Logic]

All that drama about potentially linking up with someone like Virgil Hunter and he goes with a Russian amateur coach. Nice comfortable choice for Kovalev Is anyone giving this guy real advice about his career? So happy Ward stopped this guy. Would like to see Berbetiev gets his mitts on Kovalev.

How dare the Russian boxer who barely speaks enlish hire a Russian trainer! If he had only hired an American trainer, I would have rooted for him to destroy Ward, but since he hired a Russian trainer, I'm so glad Ward lost to him and then hit him in the balls! Yesss!!!! And now I just hope Artur Beterbiev, the next great American superstar, also beats up Kovalev! Yess!!!!

I dont get you man. Who is Beterbiev's coach anyway? Not a Russian?

I dont get why everyone blames Kovalev for the JDJ thing. It seems to me like JDJ is the one who doesnt know what he's doing. They have an outdated "more is always better" attitude towards physical training, which is probably what burned Kovalev out. The miles he was running some days was absolutely insane. Secondly, JDJ was giving Kovalev horrible advice about hitting Ward's ribs inside until he "broke Ward's ribs." In reality, clinch shots almost never break ribs at that level of boxing, so all that advice actually did was help tire out Kovalev's arms, and give Ward a chance to fight inside, the only area Ward was having any success in their two fights.

Kovalev has also said in many interviews that he actually DOES want a teacher, and that the real problem with JDJ was that JDJ didn't teach him anything, that basically Kovalev's amateur coaches were much better than JDJ, and that everything JDJ was trying to teach him were things he'd already been taught better elsewhere and weren't helping him. In support of this theory, we can see that JDJ has no other top level boxers in his stable, and that his best current boxer, Curtis Stevens, just came off a brutal knockout loss under his stewardship.

So, none of us will really know the exact story unless we were in camp with them, but as much as you see a pattern of Kovalev being an untrainable a**hole, I see just as much or more of a pattern of JDJ not being a good trainer, and of Kovalev complaining about that, and simply being honest about how he wasn't unhappy with the low quality of teaching he was getting from JDJ. The only thing that makes me lean towards blaming Kovalev, like you do, is that Abel Sanchez also had a falling out with him, but guess what, Abel Sanchez is also known for, essentially, overtraining boxers, in high altitude at that, and now we are seeing GGG decline at an insanely high rate in his early-and-mid-thirties, so once again it begs the question, why automatically believe the trainer? Because as I said, I see just as much or more evidence that not only JDJ, but also Abel Sanchez, may not know what they're doing, as I see evidence that Kovalev is to blame.

So, it might not be as simple as you think.

[A.K]

Hopefully the guy is a good stamina coach

[Boxing Logic]

Does anyone know if this trainer is any good though? What is he known for? Is he the right guy to introduce new, better science to Kovalev's weight cutting process, and his stamina which is probably related to that? Is this the right guy to teach Kovalev to simply hold on the inside and wait for the referee to break him to range (since, sadly, corrupt/incompetent referees now allow that)?

What is this trainer known for teaching? What are his strengths? Is he known as a magician like Lomachenko's dad, or does he have any reputation at all?

[Dramacyde]

He's gonna pay that old drunk motha****a with bottles of Stoli.