Who will you be rooting for: Hopkins or Kovalev?

Im rooting for Bernard, only because i want him to realise his dream, beat Stevenson, unify the titles, cement his legacy and then retire.

 

what a surprise atsch:hi:
seriously what the **** is the point in you posting in this thread i think everyone would already know who you'd be up for little boy

 

The Damn Guy: "Thank Goodness Lewis retired before my time"

Azzer85: So you're about 10-11 years old

The Damn Guy: Azzer85 Little Boy

 

Hoping Kovalev seeks and destroys.

But more so hoping for a cracking fight.

 

No doubt! The ironic thing is that he never did give the REAL reason he wants Hopkins to win.:yep

 

True but he just may get treated like a villian by the U.S. boxing infrastructure. They could easily hold a grudge against him and make his life difficult in the future.

 

Do you have a link to that? There is this interview:

“It’s good not to be in Kovalev’s head. If he starts thinking with Bernard Hopkins, as [Kovalev’s trainer] John David Jackson pointed out, it’s a wrap. Kovalev just has to fight and attack,” Kellerman said.

http://www.boxingnews24.com/2014/10/kovalev-has-to-attack-hopkins-says-kellerman/

I assume there must be something else.

 

In the final press conference yesterday Hopkins finished up with something to the tune of "send the atheist back to the hole they belong". WTF was that all about? Was he talking about Kovalev? Also went all nuts saying Allah made his enemies drop dead, and that he is protected in the ring by a higher power.

Ok Bernard whatever you say dude, but thanks for that little outburst now I won't feel bad watching you get destroyed by Kovalev.

 

Yeah, that stuff was really sad.

 

I just watched that clip and unless I missed it he didn't say that Kovalev was not special, he only said that he thinks it best for Kovalev to try and outfight/outpunch not outbox Bernard. And let's be honest, it wouldn't even really make sense for Kovalev to try and turn it into a boxing match against Hopkins since it would negate his own advantages.

In any event, Kellerman is a pundit and he's paid to voice his opinions. Even if he did say "Kovalev is just a puncher" that's hardly a stinging critique.

And it's not like he's anti Eastern European (since that seems to be a concern to some on this board) since in the same breath he'll praise GGG as one if not the best at MW right now.

 

Bernard is a louse