IMO the Showtime offer is just a smokescreen...

[Foreign Soil]

its up there with one of the biggest ducks of all time. im doing my research as we speak as to whether its top 5 ,top 10 or top 20 atg duck

I'm eagerly awaiting the verdict of this research. I've collaborated with a panel of experts in the local boxing community and we've reached a verdict that it is indeed a very strong duck.

[MDPopescu]

if stevenson is getting paid significantly it's for the bhop fight not fonfara.

and there's nothing to steal legally here smh

... Adonis shouldn't have fought Fonfara and could have "smashed" Kov in May for a decent HBO purse, right?
... Then Adonis could have signed with Haymon (and Showtime) and go fight B-Hop for a huge-huge purse...

Adonis didn't do that!!!
Therefore "a duck is a duck" -- it was never about money...

[Daddy T]

[jas]

I'm eagerly awaiting the verdict of this research. I've collaborated with a panel of experts in the local boxing community and we've reached a verdict that it is indeed a very strong duck.

early research of an extensive program has indicated it has indeed broken into top 10 atg ducks. not enough evidence to suggest it rivals the mayweather -pacquaio duck. i am doing further research as we speak..........

[Daddy T]

Adonis 'Health Comes First' Stevenson

[pugilistprophet1994]

Stevenson is a *****.

[AP♠]

This is about Showtime/Haymon seizing the opportunity to poach Stevenson and derail one of HBO's big projects. Obviously they don't care about the Fonfara fight. But they care about hurting HBO. The Stevenson-Kovalev fight falling apart doesn't matter to them, they're looking at destroying a competitor.

HBO really need to decide whether they are serious about boxing anymore or not. I can understand them not wanting fighters to be able to squeeze them by threatening to run to Showtime, but the alternative is the risk of irrelevance.

Thinking outside of the box I like this comment. It's a wage war to steal premium fighters that have been invested in mildly to magnetize new subscribers in the other side of the field. Let's think, HBO doesn't really have a deep roster in terms of an rubics cube with allot of different combinations of fights to set up through the year like Shotime. Fighters don't want to be limited to certain amount of fights and crossing over is guaranteeing long term steady work. If I'm not mistaken Shotime subscribers have increased 12% since boxing was reintroduced. Sucks we can't get the fights that we want but we're not wearing the fighter's shoes in terms of getting paid so many won't understand.