Ward/Kovalev 2...who wins?

[wanderingfighter]

What's all this Kovalev racist stuff about? I remember the monkey t-shirt Stevenson thing, but assumed it was most likely a cultural misunderstanding, Russia doesn't do PC. Many fans/media/reporters talk about him like he's a Klan member or something, is there evidence of him openly hating black bods?

They used John David Jackson as proof he was not racist.

Actually Kovalev trained at a community 'hardcore' boxing gym, which I believe is funded by the PAL (or the city of Fort Lauderdale) in Fort Lauderdale, FL when he first came to the states. The gym is right in one of the public parks inside of a public housing project on I95 on either Oakland Park Blvd or Sunrise Blvd (I forgot to be honest with you) It's been a few years since I lived in South Florida. But how do I know? When I first got interested in training I trained there. It's a boxing gym that when you run your rounds you see gangs of people smoking weed and drinking quarts of malt liquor on the benches. The place is full of low income African American and Latino American people.

Jackson would work with Kovalev out of there as far as I can remember, and there was one other eastern European or Balkan prospect there co-existing without any problems with the other 20+ fighters, but he might of come at a later time than Kovalev in the late afternoons. I actually found out about that gym by asking Nate Campbell for a gym recommendation a long time ago when I had interest in getting started. Though I never really stuck with it and my mind was not in the right place to put in the work required at that time. Plus that gym was dirty as hell, and I even got a nasty ringworm (that I had a lot of trouble getting rid of) there a few months into training which was the nail in the coffin for me and I left. I let little things get in the way of me getting good training and that's something I'm trying to make up for now that I picked up the sport again as a hobby. But anyway some people there and around that neighborhood are stuck at the lowest point possible in American society, and I just don't really see how a racist can choose to be in that environment with so many options in South Florida. I mean like really nice options where you can train by the beach and with other types of people in clean environments.

As far as I remember no one had anything bad to say about Kovalev and he willingly trained there and it was his choice to be surrounded by this type of people, so that tells me he is not uncomfortable. This is why I think he's not a racist. Though he is probably prejudice, but most people are prejudice anyway in the type of society we live in due to the way things are. So I just say just let him be.