By Ryan Burton
Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV - BoxingScene.com caught up with Main Events' CEO Kathy Duva shortly after Sergey Kovalev's three round demolition of Nadjib Mohammedi. As reported by BoxingScene.com's Rick Reeno, Duva is hopeful that Kovalev will return to the ring in Moscow on November 28th and also revealed that she will make an offer to hard hitting Artur Beterbiev's promoter Yvon Michel to try to make an all Russian showdown.
Jean Pascal was also in action last night and won a close decision over Yuniesky Gonzalez. Many ringside observers scored the fight as a draw or a victory for the previously unknown Gonzalez. Undefeated light heavyweight Sullivan Barrera also had a knockout victory on the undercard.
Duva feels that both Cubans are potential future opponents for Kovalev. Even though many of the light heavyweight's such as Beterbiev are aligned with promoters and managers that do not work with HBO - who has Kovalev signed to a long term contract - Duva says there isn't a shortage of potential opponents for the Russian knockout artist.
"People were asking me yesterday, 'who do you have to fight (Kovalev)? All there is, is Andre Ward and Adonis Stevenson.' New guys come along everyday. We saw one come along today, (Gonzalez) who came along faster than we all expected. He is obviously someone that with a little more seasoning could be a tremendous future opponent for Sergey. Barrera is there as well. They are all a few fights away. If Sergey gets busy these next couple of years there are a lot of guys that he will be able to fight. This is going to be a very interesting weight class," Duva told BoxingScene.com.
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