Yes.
Anyone who claims it is a cultural difference or whatever is eiter a racist asshole or hasnt bothered to google it. Kovalev has done far more than the Stevenson thing
not only did he call Ismael Silakh after knocking him out negro or
or whatever is Russian claiming he had beef with him for several years back but he said other things as well
From a different site and it's with google translator but I think you'll get the meaning of it
http://allboxing.ru/archives/2013-08-31_[hour]_[min].html-10
The legendary Bernard Hopkins believes that you do not have anything special.
- Dark-skinned like a lot to talk about. For them it is part of the show. Hopkins is one of them. Before the fight with Nathan Cleverly's father also promised that I "buried". Then we met, I had "pulled" and said he had too much excess affords. He answered: "understand correctly, there is no personal dislike to you, I do it to attract interest in the fight." I'm not an actor, not a talker, I'm a fighter, used to decide everything in the ring. All of them talk a lot, and then firmly "sleep."
One day after the fight with Grover Young, by the way, the only draw the match in your career, you have called your opponent "thoroughbred n*gger." Why?
- We had a fight with him by accident. I was getting ready for a fight with another guy went to the weigh and Egis said that the enemy was "broke", however, there is a replacement, but it is harder to 9 pounds of (4.5 kilograms), so you can dine. When we got on the scales Young heavier than 6 kilograms, but it did not bother me. Then we held on to each opponent, promoter of us were not. So the next day the battle - at a party Play Boy. Among the spectators' misski "of different years, naked girls in body paint instead of swimwear. In the first round Grover something else tried to do, but I quickly picked up the keys to it. In the second, he got tired and decided to get away with pretending that I hit him heavily on the head. Young referee was led. And Young - he's an actor, he fell to the deck, she has requested a stretcher. The rules also has a point that if the fight lasted less than four rounds and stopped due to injury, the judge set off a technical draw. I later met Yang at the hotel - a happy, telling jokes to his coach. I asked him: "Why are not you in the emergency room, because, judging by your antics, you're on the verge of death?" He started screaming something about a rematch, and I asked him not to wait, to go for a hotel and make it there . "No, no, no, it's illegal," - he said. It was a shame that this "tan" to earn easy money. Egis paid him 4000 dollars, but it turns out nothing.
Grover - the main villain, whom you met in the ring?
- Well ... He's just a rascal behaved unsportsmanlike. In general, for some reason among African Americans across the guys inadequate. If they are on the sparring that something does not work, then you can with an elbow strike. In one case, the "white" beaten "black." So he pulled out a gun after a workout and began waving it in the face of the enemy, threatening to shoot him. This abnormal behavior. I'm not a racist, I know that everywhere there are good and bad guys, but the "tanned" every day I like less. I live in Florida, there are many illegal immigrants, natives, I can see how they behave.
That's just a rough translation but I just got a friend who speaks Russian to read it and the meaning is clear. Beibut Shumenov (a Russian speaker) was asked for his thoughts.
And Shumenov doesn't buy Kovalev's excuse either.
RingTV.com: What are your thoughts Sergey Kovalev's comments about African Americans? Were they controversial or not in nature, due to the Russian language? In other words, what was your interpretation of what Kovalev actually said?Shumenov: I was shocked when I heard about his racist comments that he said in reference about African Americans. There was no misinterpretation or lost in Russian-to-English translation of what he said.
He will have to live with the derogatory words that he said in print and video. A lot of my team are African Americans, and they are more than members of my team, they are family to me. They have my back and I have theirs, and I have zero respect for racist views of any kind.
There is not a little bit of a doubt that Kovalev is racist he seems to like Hopkins and has a black trainer but so what he's still racist and there's no denying, it isn't arguable.
Pascal is hilarious though revolving the whole trash talk leading up to the fight only about that his antics against Hopkins where fun as well though
