Comments Thread For: Stevenson To Kovalev: Nobody Scared of Your Sorry Ass!

[J The UnBiased]

This goof Ravens Fan tries way too hard. He's probably some white or mulatto troll who lives in his single mother's basement. I don't want to burst your black power bubble little man but Rigondeaux isn't black. He's Cuban, you fool. Oh and here's something that's really going to make you cry or give you nightmares. Andre Ward's dad was whiter than a winter blizzard. Half Irish/half italian. So your boy Ward is white. Other than cherry picker Floyd and Timothy Bradley who got handled by Manny and got brain damage from Ruslan, you don't have many fighters to root for. The black fighter is a dying breed. Boxing and MMA is being run by Eastern Euros, Latinos, and British fighters. I know the truth hurts, but it is what it is. Get used to it.

Or maybe, you're the fool. If you've never heard of Black Cubans. Lara is one as well. Maybe you need to take a course in history, maybe read a little? And maybe research the history of the acceptance of the mixed breed in America, for your Andre Ward comment.

[uncommon]

Or maybe, you're the fool. If you've never heard of Black Cubans. Lara is one as well. Maybe you need to take a course in history, maybe read a little? And maybe research the history of the acceptance of the mixed breed in America, for your Andre Ward comment.

"...And maybe research the history of the acceptance of the mixed breed in America..." If you are writing about man, man is not bred. Animals are bred. The only way you can stop putting your foot in your mouth is by not making comments at all. Can you not take that dirty sock off your write foot and put it in your mouth?

[ИATAS]

This goof Ravens Fan tries way too hard. He's probably some white or mulatto troll who lives in his single mother's basement. I don't want to burst your black power bubble little man but Rigondeaux isn't black. He's Cuban, you fool. Oh and here's something that's really going to make you cry or give you nightmares. Andre Ward's dad was whiter than a winter blizzard. Half Irish/half italian. So your boy Ward is white. Other than cherry picker Floyd and Timothy Bradley who got handled by Manny and got brain damage from Ruslan, you don't have many fighters to root for. The black fighter is a dying breed. Boxing and MMA is being run by Eastern Euros, Latinos, and British fighters. I know the truth hurts, but it is what it is. Get used to it.

Can someone ban this racist troll?

[MDPopescu]

If I remember correctly didn't kovalev have the opportunity to fight Bhopal?? And they turned it down to fight degale..

You have a monster memory.
According to you that's how it happened: Kovalev ducked B-Hop only to take a bloke named "degale", right?
... and you're not stoned, right?

[Allmenjoi8]

LOL @ Kovalev being clasless. If anyone's being classless, it's Stevenson. Kovalev deserves the fight. Stevenson is the one who doesn't want the fight.

And are we seriously still calling Kovalev racist? Sillakh brought that **** on himself for talking **** behind his back.

3 words for Stevenson, SIGN THE CONTRACT

Maybe Kovalev shouldn't call guys out when he already has a fight. Pretty weak.

[J The UnBiased]

"...And maybe research the history of the acceptance of the mixed breed in America..." If you are writing about man, man is not bred. Animals are bred. The only way you can stop putting your foot in your mouth is by not making comments at all. Can you not take that dirty sock off your write foot and put it in your mouth?

And maybe you're an idiot for not recognizing that it is term that has been used to refer to mixed races for more than several decades. I guarantee, you do not want to bark up this tree with me. You have not contributed an argument to my statement, only a petty grammatical correction. Challenge me on my statement, if you will.

[King_]

What's with all the race talk? This is getting out of hand and should stay on the topic of boxing

[MDPopescu]

What's with all the race talk? This is getting out of hand and should stay on the topic of boxing

When they can't argue on boxing terms, they switch to "prizefighting", "race" etc... then again to "skills", "slicks", and (eventually) "pussies"...

[MDPopescu]

If I remember correctly didn't kovalev have the opportunity to fight Bhopal?? And they turned it down to fight degale..

Look, genious:

a d l e f t h o o k.com/2013/8/22/4647800/bernard-hopkins-bristles-at-attention-given-to-kovalev-he-took-the

Aug 22 2013, 12:48p

Bernard Hopkins bristles at attention given to Kovalev: 'He took the easiest road'

Hopkins, 48, says that Sergey Kovalev took the "easiest and safest way" to a world title in the light heavyweight division when he beat Nathan Cleverly this past Saturday. You'll recall that Kovalev was named mandatory challenger to Hopkins by the IBF earlier this year, but instead "opted' to face WBO titlist Cleverly on the road in Wales.

What ol' "X" fails to mention is that Showtime flat-out turned down a Hopkins-Kovalev fight. Stephen Espinoza said on Twitter when asked why SHO was not interested in that fight, "Many factors - schedule, budget, lack of depth in the division, etc."

Lack of depth in the division sure didn't prevent the network from schedule Hopkins against previous mandatory challenger Karo Murat, a solid fighter but realistically a light heavyweight also-ran with no American fanbase whatsoever, no TV appearances here, and considered far less threat to Bernard than Kovalev was and still is. And when that fight fell through, and they didn't want the Kovalev fight, they had no trouble rescheduling Hopkins-Murat, which will now take place on October 26 on Showtime.

There are other factors at play here. Bernard has never really liked other fighters in his weight class getting good press for much of anything, and he's playing that game again. "I'm Bernard Hopkins, what has this guy done?" He is also now calling Cleverly a paper champion who had proven nothing, but in April, here's what he (B-Hop) said about Cleverly:

"Cleverly brings a lot to the table himself. He can fight and has the looks. He knows how to promote. I've been watching him and he's knocking on the door of superstardom. He is a threat to me and any other 175lb fighter."

Sergey Kovalev wasn't going to get a fight with Bernard Hopkins. It's really that simple. And Kathy Duva and Main Events chose to be proactive about it. Rather than fiddling around with a likely pointless Hopkins negotiation, they chose to chase another world title, quickly signing to fight Cleverly. Part of the stated reason was that they thought they was a good chance that Hopkins would vacate the IBF belt and sign to fight Cleverly himself, leaving Kovalev to fight, you know, Murat or someone for a vacant title. At best, Kovalev-Murat would have been an NBC Sports fight. Cleverly got Kovalev onto HBO and on the world stage.

Meanwhile, Hopkins is stuck fighting Murat in a fight nobody seems to care about at all, and it seems possible that he's rankling a bit at Kovalev and Adonis Stevenson, who faces Tavoris Cloud on September 28, getting attention at 175 pounds right now. The spotlight is on those guys: they're younger, they're big punchers, and they're exciting to watch. No matter how much respect Bernard has, it will never be enough for him. Hopkins wants every ounce of the spotlight at all times. That's a big part of what makes him the fighter he is, and hell, there's every good reason to believe he'd chew up Stevenson and Kovalev the same way he's done guys like Kelly Pavlik, Jean Pascal, and Cloud in recent years.

So it is what it is, at the end of the day, if you will, so to speak. Hopkins is just being Hopkins; his jealousy, as it were, is probably just fuel thrown on his eternal flame, that gnawing insistence that everyone look right at Bernard Hopkins, because goddamn it, he's done more than these other dudes. He's not really wrong or anything. He's just B-Hop.

[richardt]

Look, genious:

a d l e f t h o o k.com/2013/8/22/4647800/bernard-hopkins-bristles-at-attention-given-to-kovalev-he-took-the

Aug 22 2013, 12:48p

Bernard Hopkins bristles at attention given to Kovalev: 'He took the easiest road'

Hopkins, 48, says that Sergey Kovalev took the "easiest and safest way" to a world title in the light heavyweight division when he beat Nathan Cleverly this past Saturday. You'll recall that Kovalev was named mandatory challenger to Hopkins by the IBF earlier this year, but instead "opted' to face WBO titlist Cleverly on the road in Wales.

What ol' "X" fails to mention is that Showtime flat-out turned down a Hopkins-Kovalev fight. Stephen Espinoza said on Twitter when asked why SHO was not interested in that fight, "Many factors - schedule, budget, lack of depth in the division, etc."

Lack of depth in the division sure didn't prevent the network from schedule Hopkins against previous mandatory challenger Karo Murat, a solid fighter but realistically a light heavyweight also-ran with no American fanbase whatsoever, no TV appearances here, and considered far less threat to Bernard than Kovalev was and still is. And when that fight fell through, and they didn't want the Kovalev fight, they had no trouble rescheduling Hopkins-Murat, which will now take place on October 26 on Showtime.

There are other factors at play here. Bernard has never really liked other fighters in his weight class getting good press for much of anything, and he's playing that game again. "I'm Bernard Hopkins, what has this guy done?" He is also now calling Cleverly a paper champion who had proven nothing, but in April, here's what he (B-Hop) said about Cleverly:

"Cleverly brings a lot to the table himself. He can fight and has the looks. He knows how to promote. I've been watching him and he's knocking on the door of superstardom. He is a threat to me and any other 175lb fighter."

Sergey Kovalev wasn't going to get a fight with Bernard Hopkins. It's really that simple. And Kathy Duva and Main Events chose to be proactive about it. Rather than fiddling around with a likely pointless Hopkins negotiation, they chose to chase another world title, quickly signing to fight Cleverly. Part of the stated reason was that they thought they was a good chance that Hopkins would vacate the IBF belt and sign to fight Cleverly himself, leaving Kovalev to fight, you know, Murat or someone for a vacant title. At best, Kovalev-Murat would have been an NBC Sports fight. Cleverly got Kovalev onto HBO and on the world stage.

Meanwhile, Hopkins is stuck fighting Murat in a fight nobody seems to care about at all, and it seems possible that he's rankling a bit at Kovalev and Adonis Stevenson, who faces Tavoris Cloud on September 28, getting attention at 175 pounds right now. The spotlight is on those guys: they're younger, they're big punchers, and they're exciting to watch. No matter how much respect Bernard has, it will never be enough for him. Hopkins wants every ounce of the spotlight at all times. That's a big part of what makes him the fighter he is, and hell, there's every good reason to believe he'd chew up Stevenson and Kovalev the same way he's done guys like Kelly Pavlik, Jean Pascal, and Cloud in recent years.

So it is what it is, at the end of the day, if you will, so to speak. Hopkins is just being Hopkins; his jealousy, as it were, is probably just fuel thrown on his eternal flame, that gnawing insistence that everyone look right at Bernard Hopkins, because goddamn it, he's done more than these other dudes. He's not really wrong or anything. He's just B-Hop.

This is what I call a very solid post! Very detailed and complete and uses facts without an agenda!