Now that I have time to truly take in both of boxings top EE fighters. There is a big difference between a GGG crowd and a Krusher crowd. K2 hands down has successfully built there fighter's hype to pretty good level's in a short period of time in the U.S. even though he has not accomplished much. Kovalev on the other hand has de-0'd plenty of top LHW's and beat Hopkins for 2 belts and beat a guy that Hopkins struggled with Pascal. Main Events needs a new team for promotion, period. No way a guy fighting at Krushers level should be half filling MGM Grand. I don't know what they need to do for Krusher but maybe they need him to just be himself and not a FACE like Gennady. Sergey would do better financially if they let him talk ****. Whether good or bad it gets attention. Look at Floyd before Oscar, Broner's manufactured career, or Donald Trumps pole rating's. People would love to see another **** talker that goes out and destroys has competitor like Mike Tyson did post prison. Either that or he will eventually have to leave Duva for greener $$$ pasture's.
I went to the fight. He needs better promo but **** him. The hype for the fraud is always higher than the real fighters anyway.
Krusher just needs to be patient keep doing his thing and building his resume. In time he will get the recognition he deserves Leave floyd out of this shizit he has been on top 20 years and earned it in the ring.
That was no diss. It's just that Kovalev has this undercover darkside that Main Events keeps trying to hide and they don't need to. Controversy sells. The man wants to move up now but he shouldn't because his name is not big enough yet. He just needs to draw attention to himself without looking like a dweeb saying Good Boy or some dumb ****.
Of course if this is marketable then they should promote what come naturally from a fighter. Because the happy go lucky good boy is taken. So the direct polar opposite might be his ticket. whether his handlers like it or not he has the pedigree and look of a destroyer
fight stevenson or somebody let that ward fight simmer awhile until hes really back in business and getting attention. Because after that its pretty much nobody not a good thing.
Why bother building him up or creating some pseudo persona. Many fight fans are just going to hate him because he is White. The guy gives his honest opinions and most want him banned from the sport or worse. The deck is so stacked against him that all he can hope for it to make a few more million then move back to Russia and raise his children away from this toxic Murican culture that is holding him hostage. Golovkin on the other hand is much better off but he has to pander to the Latino boxing infrastructure for his existance in this sport.
He should leave Duva and Main Events ASAFP. They are a two-bit operation that will stall his progress at this point. :smoke
WTF was that dayum. I am positive he has fans of all races. He is fight on HBO the premiere television network, America is the boxing Mecca everyone comes here to make there bones. Get some f#%$#^%$ therapy. dayum
Khazakstan isn't in Eastern Europe. It is considered Central Asia. Main Events decided Kovalev was ready to step up in his 21st fight. He took on a Gabriel Campillo, that had just came off giving Tavoris Cloud a boxing lesson. Golovkin on the other hand faced his first legit middleweight opponent in his 27th fight in the form of faded Mathew Macklin. It should be noted that 175 is thicker in talent, then 160 is, and that Kovalev's resume is better than Golovkin's with Kovalev having wins over legit 175 pounders like Campillo, Hopkins, and Pascal. While Golovkin's best win is Murray, someone who wouldn't be a top 10 middleweight in the 90s. Main Events decided to move Kovalev to the top of the food chain, with a few meaningful fights. While Golovkin fights three to four bums a year, and builds a hype. Kovalev's career is more meaningful at this point. Golovkin talks in his accent and broken English, and gets people to fall in love with the good boy, and drama show lingo, while he is still fighting bums.
Yeah sure, leave ME when they gave him his only contract after nobody would touch him with a ten foot pole. That's how you and every other Murican does business but Kovalev is an honorable man.