Let's be honest here, Kovalev - Stevenson is a racial thing.

[Boxing Goat]

Boxing goat first off you are HOF poster.

Back to topic in hand, ultimately , Stevenson is ducking Kovalev.

Al haymon and Bernard Hopkins are friends, they have a secret business relationship.
Hopkins wants to become lineal champ by beating Stevenson/kovalev winner.
Stevenson did not want to risk a Hopkins fight by fighting kovalev.
It's not a money thing, hbo offered an amount stevensons promoter and lawyer agreed to.
It's al haymon whispering in stevensons ear how much he could earn in a Hopkins fight.
Al haymon staff member Sam Watson has been seen with Stevenson in gbp fights long before al haymon signed him.


Now where we stand:

Kovalev fights some more bums and then pascal, cloud until ward is done fighting 1 or 2 fights at super middle
If lawsuit fails, Stevenson fights fonfara then Hopkins, loses to Hopkins and Hopkins vacates........ Meaning Stevenson goes back to hbo to fight kovalev for vacant lineal crown which can only be contested by number 1 and 2.

Very insightful post. The Bhop angle is something that should be seriously considered given the circumstances and who is involved. It may just very well go exactly like that.

Plus, the opening to your reply already had me on your side, lol.

[jas]

Viable scenario (minus Kovalev fighting Pascal or Cloud -- Pascal is part of the "Quebec cartel" by now)...
... But you never know what happens to B-Hop next -- the Alien may even vanish from the picture at any moment... Therefore...

Hopkins is not losing to shumenov....

[jas]

Al haymon signing all these fighters is a huge mistake........ Show time don't have enough dates to showcase all the fighters and they don't pit their top fighters against each other often enough

[MDPopescu]

Hopkins is not losing to shumenov....

I don't believe he will, also...
But at his age being an active top level boxer is so dangerous... B-Hop must retire this year...

[Unseen]

I aint white or black, but can see Kovalev wanting it. When Stevenson was asked post Bellew, he said he needs a holiday LOL.

Stevenson is scared.

[jas]

I don't believe he will, also...
But at his age being an active top level boxer is so dangerous... B-Hop must retire this year...

I hope if he notices a reasonable enough decline in training that he will not fight on .

[ImStillHere]

None of these guys are cowards. Nothing to do with Race, NSB is just full of ignorant idiots.

[phatcatboxing]

Only an issue of race if you make it one, a notion repeated a lot on this thread.

I dislike Stevenson as a person because he's a loud mouth, twitter troll who worked in underage sex slavery and is clearly still a total knob and I want to see him get beat for those reasons.

I like Kovalev cause he seems like a cool, humble dude who does the majority of his talking (forgive the cliche) in the ring - but I can appreciate that they're both great fighters and I just want to see the fight made.

End of.

[jas]

[Pugilist95]

No it isn't, its just that a lot of boxing fans unfortunately are racist.