Adonis Stevenson: record, next fight and profile →
World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman has revealed that his organization has sanctioned two fights in the light heavyweight division. First, he sanctioned a world title fight between WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson (29-1, 24 KOs) and once-beaten challenger Badou Jack (22-1-2, 13 KOs), who moved up from super middleweight last year.
Former two division world champion and Golden Boy Promotions executive Bernard Hopkins is shaking his head at the lack of activity and lack of top defenses by WBC light heavyweight beltholder Adonis Stevenson of Canada.
Earlier this month, former WBC light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal announced his retirement from the sport. Pascal fought a long line of top opponents - like Sergey Kovalev, Bernard Hopkins, Chad Dawson, Carl Froch, and several others. But the opponent he pursued the most, current WBC world champion Adonis Stevenson, was not overly interested in making their fight.
According to World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman, his organization is investigating the ongoing situation with WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson and his lack of mandatory defenses. At the moment, Eleider Alvarez has been the mandatory challenger, for two years, to Stevenson's title. Stevenson (29-1, 24 KOs) and Alvarez (23-0, 11 KOs) are both advised by Al Haymon and promoted by Yvon Michel of GYM - but for one reason or another a deal has never come together for them to fight each other.
Could Adonis Stevenson vs. Badou Jack be on the horizon? It's now being reported that Eleider Alvarez, who is the mandatory challenger to WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson, is going to sign a step-side deal - which is going to open the door for a potential fight between Stevenson and Jack.
Kathy Duva sees plenty of options for Sergey Kovalev if he can regain one of the light heavyweight titles he once owned Saturday night. Beating Vyacheslav Shabranskyy for the vacant WBO championship would move Kovalev into position for appealing title unification fights against newly crowned IBF champion Artur Beterbiev and WBA champion Dmitry Bivol. Duva doesn’t consider “irrelevant” WBC champion Adonis Stevenson an option, though.
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - It suddenly seems like decades ago. But fans of modern light heavyweights will remember exactly where they were on Nov. 30, 2013. It was that night at the Pepsi Coliseum in Quebec City that the two most prominent claimants to world 175-pound supremacy – Adonis Stevenson and Ser...
If championship belts were handed out based on patience, Eleider ‘Storm’ Alvarez would already be the light heavyweight world champion. The Colombian, based in Canada, has been the number one contender for the World Boxing Council [WBC] belt for around two years but has found nailing down a fight with the champion Adonis Stevenson very challenging.
Promoter Yvon Michel of GYM was forced to postpone his planned event that was scheduled for January 27 at the Videotron Quebec Centre in Canada. The card was going to be headlined by WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson. But there appears to be a conflict with Showtime and Premier Boxing Champions - who plan to stage another event on that particular date.
The light heavyweight showdown between Adonis Stevenson and Eleider Alvarez is looking less and less likely to happen. The fight was being targeted for a date in January 2018. The working date was January 27 at the Videotron Center in Quebec City. Alvarez has been the mandatory challenger, for nearly two years, to Stevenson's WBC light heavyweight title. Stevenson (29-1, 24 KOs) and Alvarez (23-0, 11 KOs), who are both advised by Al Haymon, were ordered to fight each other by the World Boxing Council.