Where’s Kovalev drinking between fights come from?

[bigtyivier2k2]

I always read that Kovalev is a drunk and he drank all the time throughout his career etc and how all the drinking started to catch up with him during the Ward fights.

Where are people getting this info? Or is it just haters stereotyping russians?

[Iron Fister]

Build to Kov vs Ward II, there was a lot of ish talking. That was the first time I heard that.

[ShaneMosleySr]

Him being trashed on a plane recently and harassing women sort of confirmed it

[jmrf4435]

Russian working class guys love to drink man..

Hell, Russian in general throw down and order a bottle of vodka when ever I partied with them.

I think he actually cleaned up his act later in his career but he was a binge drinker for sure. I don't think he was ever those daily drinker type alcoholics though

[MDPopescu]

... Kovalev himself underlined that he was sober when he went to a monastery to seek guidance...

[Thuglife Nelo]

Many boxers from the first half of the 20th Century drank. It was the blue collar to factory worker way

[djif]

From himself.
From buddies of the people who surrounded him during his career (it's my guess based on some rumours i've read..).
May be from his book (didn't read it)..

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[MDPopescu]

... in fact: https://www.youtube.com/embed/byExU2GlfZc

SERGEY KOVALEV CONFESSES "I DRANK A COUPLE BEERS A DAY! 2 SMALL BOTTLES OF VODKA! I CLEANED UP!

[Articulateboxin]

Wasn't he charged for assault while drunk by that woman after following her home from a bar or something? (pending court case) Then more recently, thrown off a plane for allegedly harassing a woman while drunk