HBO should market GGG and Kovalev as Soviet Killing Machines.

:rofl

Fair enough. Hey I'm white but I appreciate good music as long as it's a quality recording and sounds nice on my Focal K2P UVs in my winter car. I can rock The Doors or go to work listening to Biggie, I just don't give a flying fvck personally.

 

I remember Valuev's really cringeworthy entrance against Haye.

 

the kazakh living in germany and training in california marketed as soviet era? wtf are you talking about? nevermind.

 

Soviet Era Killing Machines :rofl

 

even charles barkley would think it was a turrible idea. i thought we agreed you'd never mention triple G again anyway? :huh

 

This ain't the Soviet era.

So. No they shouldn't.

 

you must be Broner's public relations adviser and looking to expand.

1. it wouldn't fit his image which happens to be a genuine reflection of his character and everyone would think him a pretentious, obnoxious, phony clown and pawn. he'd lose massive respect and admiration by diverting from 'serious business knockout artist'.

2. i highly doubt he'd want to be associated with anything 'soviet' and very few would want to see that, maybe just you.

 

triple G is already seen by most as formidable a fighter as they come so i don't think banging that drum louder or being overtly ostentatious is the way to go. i'd have him enter the ring to 'going the distance' from rocky 1. it would resonate, endear him in a new way (and vicariously less foreign) with the crowd, psyche them up... and later when they catch the irony it would be good for a laugh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvQkl7qa6RQ&list=RDGvQkl7qa6RQ&index=1

 

Hmm.

Well Rammstein and Russian faux lesbian artists TATU got along great having done a number of collaborations if you're into that kinda thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCrvLMaDfu8

Yes and no. Obviously the GPW (the 'Eastern Front' as it's more often called by Western historians) put some strains on Soviet - German relations, but also gave the two countries a kinda of weird kinship and historical bond. Furthermore the historical ties between Imperial Russia and the German states go way into the past (Stieglitz, for instance - I think - is a descendent of the Volga Germans, one of several waves of immigration initiated by Catherine the Great in an attempt to 'Germanise', or 'modernise' her country)

Never in the history of mankind have two states waged such a massive and mutually annihilatary war, and in both counties it's echoes reverberate to the present day.

Incidentally, I think Kovalev's well aware of the marketing potential of playing the stone cold Russian machine already. - there's a 'Tube clip with Kovalev in a bar doing the Drago 'I must crush him' quote, cept he kinda fluffs it to 'I will kill him' which El Russo (Gradovich - who was introduced to Klimas by Kovalev, but speaks better English than Sergei) hastily corrects.