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

[Kagami Taiga]

The problem with this is the contract is dependent on HBO buying the fonfara fight. If all of that was part of the agreement, HBO passing on that fight basically breaks the agreement or at least creates a counter offer. Either way u look at it, it wasn't Stevenson who broke the agreement in this case.

[Mikhnienko]

The problem with this is the contract is dependent on HBO buying the fonfara fight. If all of that was part of the agreement, HBO passing on that fight basically breaks the agreement or at least creates a counter offer. Either way u look at it, it wasn't Stevenson who broke the agreement in this case.

Im not so sure about that.

1) Main Events/Gym/HBO reach a verbal agreement documented in emails that HBO will air Stevenson-Fonfara then Stevenson- Kovalev

2) Gym/Haymon run to Showtime and get a bigger offer for Stevenson-Fonfara and ask HBO to match it without assurances that they'll fight Kovalev afterwards.

That right there would be them violating the previous agreement asking more money for the same fight while going back on the second part of the original deal.

[Taranazan]

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.

Yes, getting an injunction can only takes a few days, but I doubt a judge would give one in this case. To get an injunction, you have to prove the following:

- Appearance of a right
- Aa irreparable prejudice
- The enforcement of the injunction would do more harm than not enforcing it
- The urgency of the situation.


In this case:
1- An injunction preventing Stevenson to fight until the situation is resolved would be more damaging than the absence of injunction would be for Kovalev.
2- There isn't an irreparable prejudice in this case. Worst case scenario, Stevenson would have to pay Kovalev.


Sorry if some of it doesn't make sense, English isn't my first language, especially for legal matters! And maybe it isn't 100% accurate, depending in what country/state the injunction is filed.

[ShoulderRoll]

Dan Rafael said that HBO had the right to match Showtime's offer. Which seems to imply that there was a legal opening there for Stevenson to do what he did.

Maybe that just applies to the Fonfara bout though. Who knows.

[Kagami Taiga]

I don't think so remember after HBO failed to match the Fonfara offer and Stevenson was being criticized for what appeard to be step 1 in ducking Kovalev his people came out and said that didn't rule out the possibility of him still fighting Sergei which makes it sound like that deal wasn't contingent upon the Fonfara fight being aired on HBO.

What's wrong with that is it's clearly been stated that Showtime would get the right of first refusal now that HBO passed on the Fonfara fight and Showtime picked it up. So yea, one fight was contingent on the other. That much is immediately clear from just about everything we know.

[Mikhnienko]

What's wrong with that is it's clearly been stated that Showtime would get the right of first refusal now that HBO passed on the Fonfara fight and Showtime picked it up. So yea, one fight was contingent on the other. That much is immediately clear from just about everything we know.

Sorry i revised what i wrote to make it more clear.

Im not so sure about that.

1) Main Events/Gym/HBO reach a verbal agreement documented in emails that HBO will air Stevenson-Fonfara then Stevenson- Kovalev

2) Gym/Haymon run to Showtime and get a bigger offer for Stevenson-Fonfara and ask HBO to match it without assurances that they'll fight Kovalev afterwards.

That right there would be them violating the previous agreement asking more money for the same fight while going back on the second part of the original deal.

[Holywarrior]

I can see Stevenson having the one fight on Showtime, then having to go back and finish whatever agreement he had with HBO

[Kagami Taiga]

Sorry i revised what i wrote to make it more clear.

That doesnt violate a previous agreement. In fact all that does is imply there was never any binding agreement. Instead there was more of an option contract in place. By changing the terms the agreement vwasbt violated, it basically constituted a counter offer. Which is valid in itself. The counteroffer was just rejected by HBO. The main thing to note here is HBO is not contesting this. So I think they understand what happened here is valid within itself.

[Outwest Exp 355]

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.

Jan 23rd was 2 months ago bro. Besides I was going off of Duvas own quotes that this site posted yesterday.

[Foreign Soil]

Kathy Duva has more heart than a man named Adonis who also calls himself Superman - imagine that. Would be great if she got this KO. The more that comes out, the worse Adonis and his team looks.