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Its been enormously fruitful. We have met with so many people and its really helped me get a sense of the lay of the land, said Duva on Friday from Russia. We have more meetings. In fact, I was planning to leave here on Sunday and now we're going to push it back a few more days. We have more meetings in Moscow next week.
Thats still the tentative plan but nothing is set in stone, confirmed Duva, who added, We have a lot of pieces to to put together. There are sponsors; there are investors. Theres TV networks; theres venues and we really have got to tie all that together in one neat package. So until we've made decisions, for example, who the broadcasters are going to be, whos funding us whether its a sponsor or an investor all these things have to come together. Once we put all those things in place, then we can make a decision about opponents.
Duva continued, Its been a really fruitful trip; it was a really good idea to come here. The shame of this is that if the [WBC] purse bid had happened when it was supposed to, we would be in a position to bid.
But sadly, they pushed it and thats too bad because I really needed to come here with Sergey, take the time to make the meetings we had, to talk to the people we have talked to, explained Duva, who took heat for pulling out of the purse bid to protect their relationship with the network that had invested so much into Kovalev. We have met with some people who can buy and sell Al Haymon 15 times. We can certainly bring a fight to Russia now. I feel we could do it but we couldnt do it [then].
So do these Russians have hedge funds?
"They don't need those", answered Duva, laughing at the thought.
Thats still the tentative plan but nothing is set in stone, confirmed Duva, who added, We have a lot of pieces to to put together. There are sponsors; there are investors. Theres TV networks; theres venues and we really have got to tie all that together in one neat package. So until we've made decisions, for example, who the broadcasters are going to be, whos funding us whether its a sponsor or an investor all these things have to come together. Once we put all those things in place, then we can make a decision about opponents.
Duva continued, Its been a really fruitful trip; it was a really good idea to come here. The shame of this is that if the [WBC] purse bid had happened when it was supposed to, we would be in a position to bid.
But sadly, they pushed it and thats too bad because I really needed to come here with Sergey, take the time to make the meetings we had, to talk to the people we have talked to, explained Duva, who took heat for pulling out of the purse bid to protect their relationship with the network that had invested so much into Kovalev. We have met with some people who can buy and sell Al Haymon 15 times. We can certainly bring a fight to Russia now. I feel we could do it but we couldnt do it [then].
So do these Russians have hedge funds?
"They don't need those", answered Duva, laughing at the thought.
Story by Steve Kim: http://ucnlive.com/russia-love/
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