Comments Thread For: HBO Passes on Stevenson-Fonfara; Open to Kovalev Bout

[-MAKAVELLI-]

exactly bro, people acted like that wasnt the case! al haymon is bad for boxing

Stevenson will be strictly Showtime now and HBO isn't just gonna let Kovalev walk over to Showtime and hand them a showdown everyone wants to see



it's pretty sad when we can't get these awesome free fights to happen because of the network feuds

[Da Machine]

HBO is getting out of the game. Seems like it at least. How many cards have they had? How many do they have scheduled?

[-MAKAVELLI-]

Adonis can make about $2 million against Grandpa B-Hop at Bell Centre, Montreal... with Showtime... Why get killed by a Russian racist?

well, there it is...Hopkins-Stevenson instead of Kovalev...yay

*looks for the remote*

[Hougigo]

They're passing up on a lot of fights, but I see their reasoning of not taking this without a Kovalev guarantee....

[WarMaidana]

what a fricking coward wow

[MDPopescu]

HBO is getting out of the game. Seems like it at least. How many cards have they had? How many do they have scheduled?

This is the "work" of HBO Sports' chief Ken Hershman -- former chief at Showtime until Dec. 2011...

[DoktorSleepless]

By all accounts, HBO had 2-fight deal agreed to w/ Stevenson/Yvon Michel. HBO***39;s screw up was not getting it signed in Jan when they agreed.

— Dan Rafael (@danrafaelespn) March 25, 2014

By letting the deal sit for close to 2 months, it gave haymon time to sign Stevenson and then go to Showtime for more $.

— Dan Rafael (@danrafaelespn) March 25, 2014

So it***39;s good for Stevenson, Haymon, Yvon and Showtime but not for fight fans, Kovalev or HBO. #boxing

— Dan Rafael (@danrafaelespn) March 25, 2014

How do you let a deal like that sit unsigned when there are people in #boxing whose mission it is to screw things up? For shame, HBO.

— Dan Rafael (@danrafaelespn) March 25, 2014

Seriously, fuck Adonis, Haymon and HBO.

[CommanderVander]

Good for HBO if this article is right. This is just Haymon extortion. Asking for a bigger than previously agreed upon purse without committing to the Kovalev fight.

Where HBO went wrong is that Stevenson has been asking for the Hopkins fight for a year now and Golden Boy reportedly even offered Hopkins to HBO for the fight. And HBO turned them down.

[Russian Crushin]

HBO declining to overpay for haymon fighters who don't deserve it, and instead Showtime just took HBO's place.

But now that haymon has something like 50 fighters, Showtime doesmt have the budget to pay all of these guys haymons crazy demands.

I'm glad HBO is sticking to there guns. I never thought I'd see that day.

This is why just about all Haymon fighters fight about 2 times per year

[al-Xander]

Let Haymon have the burden of overpaying this guy. Poor Showtime. It's becoming Haymon's piggy bank.

This is why just about all Haymon fighters fight about 2 times per year

That's why fights are getting rarer and rarer.