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

[-MAKAVELLI-]

and stevenson knew that as well

this kinda depresses me man...HBO had this fight lined up but Stevenson weaseled his way out by running to Haymon...pathetic

[Snake4380]

GBP and Haymon fighters will have to once a year from now on lol. HBO Sports hired the Ken Hershman who was running Showtime Boxing ...Showtime boxing was a disaster under Hershamna. As soon as Hershman left Showtime for HBO, Showtime has been the better network by far. I think the question is...why would HBO hire Ken Hershman
"Hershman dropped a bomb when he announced HBO would discontinue doing Golden Boy fights for the time being." Seems like an egotistical idiot who knows nothing about boxing and goes by ratings, which doesn't account for the fact that HBO has more subscribers. Subscribers will watch boxing when they already pay for the network. I don't see how HBO boxing has done anything in 2013 to increase the number of subscribers. HBO needs to get rid of Hershman and his unwarranted oversized ego..and work things out with Golden Boy and vice versa.

[BigZigga]

I really do not like the way Adonis Stevenson conducts himself. He's a joke of a champion in my eyes

[big_james10]

I think it is interesting that HBO passed on one garbage fight, but is willing to show another one. I wonder if this decision has anything to do with Stevenson signing a contract with Al Haymon.

I take back what I said above. I wrote it before reading the article. It is obvious now that Stevenson f.......ked up this chance to appear on HBO. I guess he thinks that, since he won the Fighter of the Year award in 2013, he is on Mayweather's level in terms of negotiating power. I don't think he has any plans to face Kovalev unless he loses to Hopkins or gets KO'd by Froch first. If either of those things happen, he will suddenly find himself fighting on Friday Night Fights and will be begging HBO for a shot at Kovalev.

[rws25]

That is the dumbest comparison I ever heard

Great Point.

[DoktorSleepless]

I thought they signed a deal with adonis where they had to at least match or pass an offer from someone else

The two fight deal and the matching rights thing were were probably two separate things.

[rasdun]

Thats like Coke and Pepsi getting together and saying to McDonalds, "Hey either sell both of us at your restaurants or neither of us are going to be available at McDonalds." Doesn't make sense. Competition doesn't work together.

HBO + Showtime= Audi + BMW
- Don't work together.

It would work. If HBO and Showtime said we will not pay you hundreds of thousand of $ to fight fights that the fans are not clamoring for - what option does than leave them - PPV? Im a huge boxing fan and Im not paying for Stevenson vs Fonfara on PPV - thats for sure. If the networks played ahrdball - with thses fights - like the recently announced Thurman v. Julio Diaz - another haymon piece of garbage fight, or Broner v. Carlos Molina (the lightwt one) then fighters and their advisors would be forced to make the best fights available, instead of making fights for good money against opponents that pose very little threat

[moonshineman]

Great

That's Great news. That means Stevenson doesn't get to fight another BUM.

[joseph5620]

this kinda depresses me man...HBO had this fight lined up but Stevenson weaseled his way out by running to Haymon...pathetic

There is nothing pathetic about running to whatever pays you more money. It's common sense, really.

[JJRod]

Are you *******g kidding me?

HBO pay up!