Duva will block Stevenson/Showtime deal and enforce previous Kov-Stev agreement

[Outwest Exp 355]

Because GYM said they had their fighter's agreement.
And if he lied about that in contract negotiations, he'll find his ass out of a job and sued

They reached an agreement two months ago right. Where the hell were the contracts? They should've rapped this fight up before Haymon could get in and **** block them.

[Gimli]

Aducknis Stevenson you sux. Fight you coward and don't stutter.

[Da Machine]

I just can't see how this holds any water, and I'm fully on Kovalevs side. HBO basically broke any deal by not matching showtimes bid. Showtime by law now has rights of refusal for Stevensons fight after Fonfara.

People can be hopeful but 100% nothing comes from this.

[bartolomewj]

Why does he have to sign with someone to get a fight,,, why can't Stevenson just fight kovolev,,, especially when it's has been in the works for a year now..

Well, some people maintain that if Pacquiao signs with Al, the Floyd fight will happen...........:-)

[ИATAS]

They reached an agreement two months ago right. Where the hell were the contracts? They should've rapped this fight up before Haymon could get in and **** block them.

I don't know where this "two months" comes from, other than Dan Rafael. It was less than a month:


On Jan. 23, Kovalev promoter Kathy Duva of Main Events and Stevenson promoter Yvon Michel of GYM agreed via email to the terms and the revenue splits between them.

The next day, the two got on the telephone with Peter Nelson, the director of programming for HBO Sports, and the threesome agreed on the financial aspects of a deal. It would include Kovalev facing Cedric Agnew, a bout that will be held on HBO in Atlantic City on Saturday, and Stevenson meeting Andrzej Fonfara on May 24, with Stevenson and Kovalev then meeting in the fall.

Not long afterward, Stevenson officially hired Al Haymon Feb 19th.


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Once Haymon was hired that's when everything changed. We all speculated this would happen the moment Haymon was hired. We all said "watch, this means no Kovalev" and sure enough here we are, no Kovalev vs Adonis.

[!! Shawn]

I'm not a lawyer or anything, but for validation they'd need witnesses or something yea?

Dunno, just know writing is a sure thing.

We'll see, they said they had a deal for the fight, just not one for HBO.

Don't know if that means if HBO does approve, then the contract/agreement is valid again after the Fonfara fight.
Because all they really care about is the Kovalev fight, save some money from that fight

I think what is happening is MainEvents has a contract with Stevenon's people, that says the fight goes through if HBO is interested, and Stevensons' people are saying HBO doesn't want fanfara, so We are going to go sign a contract with Shotime that procludes us from working with HBO, so that make HBO not interested and the agreement is off.

MainEvents say, not so fast, the agreement is if HBO is interested in Kovalev vs Stevenson, not Fanfara vs Stevens, you can't run away to Showtime to null the agreement.

[!! Shawn]

Even if Main Event has all the proof it needs to prove there was an agreement with GYM and Stevenson, it is useless.

Stevenson is 36yo. It would take at LEAST 2 years to get a first instance court to come to a decision. Then there could very well be an appeal. So in 3-4 years, when Stevenson is 40yo, we could have a fight.

In the meantime, both will continue their career, and likely one of them will lose and become irrelevant. Sadly, the Law isn't helpful in this case. And no judge will grant an injunction in this kind of situation.

It would be much quicker to get an injunction issued preventing stevenson from fighting until the dispute is resolved, especially if the agreement is for kovalev after his next fight.

[Jloro]

**** yeah lets get this LHW tourney going

[Da Machine]

I think what is happening is MainEvents has a contract with Stevenon's people, that says the fight goes through if HBO is interested, and Stevensons' people are saying HBO doesn't want fanfara, so We are going to go sign a contract with Shotime that procludes us from working with HBO, so that make HBO not interested and the agreement is off.

MainEvents say, not so fast, the agreement is if HBO is interested in Kovalev vs Stevenson, not Fanfara vs Stevens, you can't run away to Showtime to null the agreement.

It won't matter. Unless HBO puts up huge money. Showtime has rights of refusal for Stevensons next fight. So no matter what all Showtime has to do is match HBO's offer.

HBO ended this by not matching Showtimes offer.

[takingaim]

I can't read those ****ing twitter messages. @this, @that. **** OFF.