By Keith Idec
The battle between light heavyweight champions Sergey Kovalev and Adonis Stevenson continued Tuesday when Kovalev’s promoter, Main Events, mocked Stevenson on Twitter.
Main Events posted a Vine video in which it wished Stevenson a “Happy 38th Birthday.” In it, an unidentified person wearing a chicken suit, boxing gloves and replica of Stevenson’s trademark Superman cape blows out candles on a cake, on which the message, Happy Birthday Adonis, was written.
Once the chicken blows out the candles, portions of the cake disappear until cherries appear, a dig at Stevenson cherry-picking opponents. The Vine footage then switches to a ticking clock.
Under the Twitter message wishing Stevenson a happy 38th birthday, the hashtags timeisrunningout and clockisticking were written.
Stevenson responded to Main Events’ social-media mockery Tuesday by Tweeting: My promoter @yvonmichelGYM is classier and more professional than @Main_Events. We want to make fights not social media videos.
Main Events countered with: Then pick up the phone and MAKE THE FIGHT! Because all we hear is ‘Cluck, cluck, bock, boooock!’
Neither fighter has his next fight set, but Russia’s Kovalev (28-0-1, 25 KOs), who owns the IBF, WBA and WBO 175-pound championships, and Canada’s Stevenson (27-1, 22 KOs), the WBC light heavyweight champion, don’t appear any closer to making one of the most intriguing bouts boxing can offer a reality than they’ve been in recent years.
To view Main Events’ Tweet and video, click here: https://twitter.com/Main_Events?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Keith Idec covers boxing for The Record and Herald News, of Woodland Park, N.J., and BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.
