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Quote Originally Posted by ryanman View Post
Kovalev is pointing at a monkey calling it Stevenson because Stevenson is black. That's clear.
Why is that clear? Why can't it be Kovalev calling him a gorilla because he thinks he's ugly and stupid, like Ali did to Frazier?

Kovalev could very well be a horrible racist, maybe racism is more culturally accepted in Russia like Brock was saying, I just don't see why we all have to jump to conclusions. If he called Adonis a n**ger or mentioned slavery or something like that, that would be different and pretty straight forward. Calling someone a gorilla is used to insinuate someone is ugly or primitive way more than it's used as a racial slur.
He already had his ni**er interview a few months back. There really is no denying he's a racist.

Doesn't effect the fight, him asking to be taken from his mandatory position effects the fight. So here we have a man asking out of the fight then throwing racist barbs, that's what's worst here. If he was taking the fight who would care?