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[Mastery]

Khan said he wants a tune up in March. Berto, Rios, or Jo Jo Dan. Smh

A fucking tune up!? All the nigga been fighting lately are fucking tune ups haha and when he not doing that he bumping his gums. Fuck Khan hoe ass until he start fighting some damn body.

 

[Mastery]

And Robert Garcia said Mikey Garcia probably coming back soon. They need to put him in there with Crawford so Crawford can get that work

Let's put 250 on that

@JLacey

Another bet has been thrown out into IC land. What say you? Lol

 

[D. Morgan]

And Robert Garcia said Mikey Garcia probably coming back soon. They need to put him in there with Crawford so Crawford can get that work

 

[playmaker88]

Man Mikey been sittin on the shelf way too long smh Mikey had the ability to put anyone out... curious to see if he still has it

 

[JLacey]

And Robert Garcia said Mikey Garcia probably coming back soon. They need to put him in there with Crawford so Crawford can get that work

Let's put 250 on that

@JLacey

Another bet has been thrown out into IC land. What say you? Lol

They'll never fight but bet

 

[R.D.]

And Robert Garcia said Mikey Garcia probably coming back soon. They need to put him in there with Crawford so Crawford can get that work

Let's put 250 on that

@JLacey

Another bet has been thrown out into IC land. What say you? Lol

They'll never fight but bet

Cole, you stupid lol

 

[JLacey]

Arum not gonna let him fight Garcia. Garcia said he'd take the fight last year if Arum would let him out of his contract. Not gonna happen.

 

[Dupac]

shawn porter live on facebook right now answering questions for fans
https://www.facebook.com/premierbox...1695641870/?type=2&theater&notif_t=live_video

 

[aneed123]

Crawford whooped both Mikey and Danny Garcia in the amateurs

 

[mdot]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BBOjHhTgfSH/

Kevin Hart...

Not bad he's short as fuck though. I saw him side to side with mayweather he looks way shorter than may.

 

[mdot]

Khan said he wants a tune up in March. Berto, Rios, or Jo Jo Dan. Smh

A fucking tune up!? All the nigga been fighting lately are fucking tune ups haha and when he not foing that he bumping his gums. Fuck Khan hoe ass until he start fighting some damn body.

Well tune ups can go wrong lol see Algieri I don't think he expected that fight to be that tough

 

[mdot]

I don't think Khan and Berto will fight they are in the same camp.

 

[R.D.]

Which of you niggas was a Yusaf Mack fan? Don't lie

 

[JLacey]

Crawford whooped both Mindy and Danny Garcia in the amateurs

This not the amateurs. That means nothing

 

[f.e.d.s.]

Y'all crazy as hell if y'all think Stevenson has any chance against Kovalev. It will be a repeat of Rocky IV

 

[aneed123]

Crawford whooped both Mindy and Danny Garcia in the amateurs

This not the amateurs. That means nothing

Crawford done got better while Garcia done moved up in weight and had a long layoff. He has the hand speed and reach advantage as well. Garcia is a counter puncher by nature not a brawler but he can't out box Crawford which is why he looses

 

[MR.CJ]

https://twitter.com/boxingscene/status/694350240762056704

 

[stringer bell]

https://twitter.com/boxingscene/status/694350240762056704

Stevenson's Promoter Disputes Claims By Kovalev's Manager

By Steve Kim

Yvon Michel, the promoter of WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson, read with great interest the claims made earlier today by Egis Klimas, who handles WBO/IBF/WBA champion Sergey Kovalev. Once again there has been an unsuccessful attempt to make a fight between the two dominant figures at 175-pounds.

Michael told BoxingScene.com that Stevenson was well aware of all the negotiations and terms being discussed and added - "(Klimas) mentioned that the proposal to bring Showtime was in late January, not at all. We got in December their offer on January 9th, we made a counter-offer. He made it sound like it was an offer for $15 million and that's not the case. It was great speculation.

300,000 buys, $4 million on the gate. There has never been such a gate for Kovalev or Stevenson. We are aware they didn't sell a thousands tickets when he fought( versus Nadjib Mohemmedi) at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas last summer. So their offer was pay-per-view, HBO, and they guaranteed $2 million and the answer was we were going to entertain what was the best way to hold the fight. In our opinion it was Montreal or Quebec City, the only two places where there would be a significant amount of people for the fight.

"But we were told there was some interest at the Madison Square Garden or Las Vegas but we were kind of skeptical. But anyway, we didn't go that far."

Michel thinks that the projections put forth by Klimas are grossly inflated.

"When you bring out those numbers, Kathy(Duva) was giving us those numbers but we believe it was a little bit off reality. When I came back with our counter-offer in January, it was,'Lets forget about your $2 million, there's no reason to have that burden on you. So we'll be partners at 50-50 but we have to bring Showtime because we had spoken to Stephen Espinoza and he mentioned also that he was skeptical of 250,000 (buys). It was never mentioned, 300,000, our most optimistic number was 250(000) but that if we worked hard with all our resources, Stephen said,'Look, maybe we'll be able to reach that number if we work all together.' So this is when we said,'OK, forget the $2 million, we'll do everything where the best place will be, where we can get the best revenue, we'll split everything - but we bring Showtime on board. And that was turned down."

In the last few weeks, Michel tried his best to hammer out a deal.

"I went to New York to meet with Kathy the night of the Deontay Wilder fight and we spoke about it, again. And yes, they told us a deadline that was Tuesday last week. So after that deadline we were not in position to go forward with their offer but I've sent them a long email stating that our offer where nobody has to put the guarantee."

Once again, network alliances have become a nearly insurmountable hurdle to clear.

But Michel states,"But this is the offer on the table till the two guys are champions."

 

[R.D.]

She ain't slick

Kovalev all she got...not worth the risk

 

[aneed123]

Finally found the other racist shit kovalev said.

Kovalev, who will be defending his IBF/WBA/WBO world light heavyweight titles against Jean Pascal this Saturday in Montreal, Quebec on HBO, has a history of making disparaging, race-based remarks aimed at black fighters, referring to Grover Young as a “thoroughbred nigga” in 2011 and making other comments that could be perceived as racial insults regarding opponents Ismayl Sillah, Bernard Hopkins, and Jean Pascal. In 2013 he also made the following statement in an interview with Russia’s All Boxing website:

“I'm not a racist, I know that everywhere there are good and bad guys, but the ‘tanned’ every day I like less. I live in Florida, there are many illegal immigrants, natives, I can see how they behave.”

The Google Russian-to-English Translator is rough in some spots, but it also happened to capture other incriminating phrases that are clearly intended as race-baiting attacks such as “Dark-skinned like a lot to talk… All of them talk a lot, and then firmly ‘sleep’” in reference to Bernard Hopkins and “It was a shame that this ‘tan’ to earn easy money” when speaking about his 2011 technical draw with Young.

Kazakh former light heavyweight world titlist, Beibut Shumenov, who counts Russian among the five languages he speaks fluently, later confirmed that nothing was lost in translation.

“I was shocked when I heard about his racist comments that he said in reference about African Americans,” Shumenov told RingTV in 2014. “There was no misinterpretation or lost in Russian-to-English translation of what he said…He will have to live with the derogatory words that he said in print and video.”

But with Shumenov's stamp of confirmation or not, the body of evidence is there. The will among members of the boxing media to call a spade a spade, on the other hand, is not.

At Wednesday’s press conference, when opponent Jean Pascal, of Haitian descent, tossed a banana at Kovalev’s African American trainer, John David Jackson, the issue was shoved backed into the dialogue despite efforts by a compliant and gutless/clueless media to smooth over the ugliness over the past year.