Comments Thread For: Stevenson, With Haymon at Side, Wants Bank For Kovalev

[Citizen Koba]

If signing with Haymon gets you more money than its a good move. Posters should see the writing on the wall.

HBO will either refuse to work with Haymon, pretend certain opponents are not good enough and not approve them, or come up with some ridiculous excuse not to properly compensate Adonis and then start floating to the media that he is ducking. Then they will continue to pay Kovalev small money to beat up bum after bum and say the reason he is doing it is because stevensen wont fight him.

Wont that be great.

Good point. Everyone needs to sign with Haymon immediately cos monopolies are just the best.

[The Big Dunn]

Good point. Everyone needs to sign with Haymon immediately cos monopolies are just the best.

what the ****? are you serious or playing ******ed?

he is nowhere close to having a monopoly what he has shown is the ability to get his fighters higher paydays and premium spots.

the only people who have a problem with him are Bob and Herschman because they are both threatened by him.

[uncommon]

Is Stevenson this incompetent that he needs another agent to simply say "I want more money"? When it is said "he's dumber than he looks", it seems to apply to Stevenson.

[MDPopescu]

I honestly don't think that it's that far-fetched. In Al Haymon's stable who can really generate a name like Adonis Stevenson? He's a KO artist, HUGE in Canada and the lineal Light Heavyweight champion of the world. If he can keep this up, then his name only gets bigger. I think Adonis wants the Hopkins fight badly, I think Adonis will side-step Kovalev if his path of destruction continues.

If this "cold war" thing is still going on, Arreola hasn't fought on HBO since the HBO announced no more Golden Boy fighters and in essence Al Haymon fighters. Edwin Rodriguez signed with Haymon during Ward negotiations, he hasn't fought since that fight. Now Stevenson supposedly inked a 3-fight deal which was probably with the Bellew fight.

I won't be surprised after Fonfara if Stevenson decides to fight Pascal instead of Kovalev because of "money". To me, it doesn't mean Stevenson is scared to fight Kovalev but he's got to think about how much money he can make because he hit it big in the sport at the end of his career. I don't for-see a Kovalev fight in the near future.

Both men still have options out there to fight and Stevenson can make some big money in a Hopkins fight at the Barclays Center. So, I won't be surprised if Adonis Stevenson does duck Sergey Kovalev for the time being because it makes boxing sense from the business side.

If Steveson gets KO'd by Kovalev, then he loses future earnings, he wins that fight, it expands his profile but so does beating a Benard Hopkins and it's an easier fight. Personally, I think Stevenson would beat Kovalev but right now in Adonis' mind, the risk is far greater than the reward at this moment.

Adonis doesn't fight Kovalev anytime soon...

[MDPopescu]

Stevenson has options, Kovalev not so much.

I can get why Stevenson would want to wait on a Kovalev fight, but it just straight up sucks for boxing fans if he does...expect Kovalev to plow a trail of destruction through the Agnews of the LHW division while Stevenson gets the prestige fights cos he's got the financial backing.

Yes -- Kovalev has to pay his opponents, because they virtually face death.

[sugarsmosley]

do al haymon fanboys really exist, is that what we've come too.

[Citizen Koba]

what the ****? are you serious or playing ******ed?

he is nowhere close to having a monopoly what he has shown is the ability to get his fighters higher paydays and premium spots.

the only people who have a problem with him are Bob and Herschman because they are both threatened by him.

Tongue in cheek Dunn...alluding to the likelihood that Kovalev will probably need to sign with Haymon too if he wants a sniff at any of the other belts.


You think Kovalev - Stevenson's looking likely now?


What did you mean by the 'writing on the wall' BTW? Didn't quite understand that bit.