Sergey Kovalev doesn’t care that Andre Ward is favored to win

Sergey Kovalev: Everything, we’ll see November 19^th, you know? Because Andre Ward is very talented fighter, and he’s very smart. He’s like a- he’s not a fighter. He’s a boxer. Very smart boxer, you know? And what he will bring in the ring, I want to see that.

Larry King: Now he’s a super middleweight, you’re a light heavyweight, so he had to gain weight for this fight, right?

Sergey Kovalev: No he’s already like two fights back.

Larry King: But he had to come to…

Sergey Kovalev: He gained… He’s a guest. He’s a guest in my division.

Larry King: Why is he favored?

Sergey Kovalev: You know, boxing specialists look at him, something much better. He do something much better than me, I don’t know why, you know? And I don’t care about this at all. That ‘who is the underdog and who is the favorite’

Larry King: It might be better to be the underdog.

Sergey Kovalev: It’s new motivation for me. And most of my important fights I fought as a guest in another country, you know? And since amateur ages. And I like when I disappoint everybody of my opponent, you know? It makes me happy. Yeah, really.

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