WBC: Adonis Stevenson Must Face Eleider Alvarez After Next Fight

By Ryan Burton

For more than a year a unification fight between WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson and WBA/WBO/IBF light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev was negotiated multiple times in an effort to produce an undisputed champion. For a multitude of reasons, the fight never came to fruition.

During the last round of negotiations, Canada based Colombian Eleider Alvarez (19-0, 10KOs) won a final eliminator against Isaac Chilemba to secure a mandatory fight against Stevenson.

BoxingScene.com caught up with WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman to get clarification on the status of the light heavyweight division.

"It is very unfortunate that he haven't had the chance to put together Adonis against Kovalev. We spent a lot of time on that and now they have clearly gone on their separate paths so now it is time to address the mandatory situation.  I believe he has a fight scheduled for July and then he will have to fight (Alvarez)," Sulaiman told BoxingScene.com.

Stevenson will return on a date in the summer, potentially against Thomas Williams Jr. And Kovalev is back on July 11th in a showdown with Chilemba in Russia. Alvarez is

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