Comments Thread For: Adonis Stevenson's Promoter Reveals on HBO and Kovalev

[MDPopescu]

There's no parelel between Stevenson/Kovalev and Golovkin/Ward.
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Of course there's no parallel here...

1) They belong to different weight divisions.
2) Stevenson/Kovalev was actually under negotiation...
3) Stevenson isn't the #2 P4P...
4) Ward's team made no actual offer for the fight...
5) Ward didn't produce any trash talk...

a.s.o.

[Corelone]

3 million for Ward vs Delvin? That's crazy

Showtime will find out. It's a cut throat business. HBO overpaid and lost money. Adonis is burning his HBO bridge, scorched earth style, hoping Kovalev won't follow, that's all.

[KTFO]

Another example of GBP poaching a fighter. They have leverage by controlling Showtime, they have Haymon to manipulate terms. When HBO hesitates they swoop in with unmatchable offers. No fighter is going to take less money to fight better fighters. GBP is eroding away the sport with these tactics. What happens when they no longer have "Floyd" money to throw around?

[ChiBoxingFan]

This was HBO's fault! If they really wanted that fight they would of got it made. Stevenson vs Kovalev is worth much more than Ward-Rodriguez. How does HBO think that this fight is not a good business move for them beats me. Stevenson did the right thing and any fighter who wasn't getting the money they deserved would do the same thing. I don't blame Stevenson at all and most of these boxing fans are fu**ing blind. Stevenson is not scared at all. Boxing is a business. Kovalev is gonna stay fighting for ****ty money and lesser opposition while Stevenson is gonna be making mad paper while fighting better opposition.

[big_james10]

Wow! A story on BoxingScene that gets more than 10 pages of comments that has absolutely nothing to do with Floyd Mayweather. Shocking, but great to see.

[big_james10]

If HBO only offered $2 million for the Stevenson/Kovalev fight, that is an insult to both fighters considering what they were willing to pay for Ward's last fight. I think it is too bad that Kovalev already signed a long-term contract with HBO because Showtime may have been willing to do the bout for much more money.

[big_james10]

Another example of GBP poaching a fighter. They have leverage by controlling Showtime, they have Haymon to manipulate terms. When HBO hesitates they swoop in with unmatchable offers. No fighter is going to take less money to fight better fighters. GBP is eroding away the sport with these tactics. What happens when they no longer have "Floyd" money to throw around?

This statement is a contradiction to everything else you said in your post and causes your post to sound like rambling nonsense.

[TheWinners]

So the dust settles as I figured it would. I told you cats this is business. Aint no fighter gone switch networks because he's afraid of a ****ing fight. He got paid more and that's that. HBO should of coughed up the money. They gave them the chance to match so I don't blame him.

You idiots claiming he's scared of Kovalev need to wake up. Kovalev hasn't shown much reason to be afraid of him. The ****ing guy can punch, big deal. Stevenson would probably mop the floor with him and dance circles around him. What I've seen is Stevenson has one punch power, he can move and box, he's not easy to hit, and he's a southpaw. I see a huge matchup problem for Kovalev.

I haven't seen **** from Kovalev but that he can punch a bunch of scrubs and make them quit. He has power and that's all I really see from Kovalev. He can punch.

[DoktorSleepless]

http://ring tv.craveonline.com/news/329713-sergey-kovalev-4

Both Stevenson and Michel have said that Stevenson stands not only to make a career-high for facing Fonfara, but that the amount that he will pocket is more than that being offered by HBO for a clash with Kovalev, who scored three knockdowns during Saturday night's seventh-round knockout of previously unbeaten Cedric Agnew on HBO.

"I am going to make more money fighting Fonfara than HBO was going to give me to fight Kovalev," said Stevenson during a Sunday telephone call to ******.com. "That makes no sense that I can make more money fighting Fonfara than I was going to make fighting Kovalev in a unification fight."

I'm skeptical, but if true, HBO needs to fire Hershman.

Hopefully, Duva wins the lawsuit. Sounds like she has a good case.

"We have informed Yvon Michel through his attorney today that we have a deal, and that our deal memo was exchanged on Jan. 24 with all of the terms, and that deal memo referenced the amount of money that we would accept from HBO, and we have that amount of money from HBO. So we expect them to be there and ready to fight according to the terms of this deal," said Duva.

"Our deal with Yvon Michel was not contingent on him entering into a multi-fight deal with HBO. It simply says, 'This is the way that we'll split the money, and this is how much we will accept. We will accept this amount of money from HBO,' and we have that. That's a contract, and that's a deal. We don't care about his fight with Fonfara. That can happen on Showtime, or it can happen on the moon," said Duva.

"We don't care when he fights him, if he fights him or where he fights him. That's got nothing to do with the deal that we made. We have a deal with HBO for these two guys to fight in September on HBO. It says that specifically that we will accept the figure from HBO, and it describes the range within which the figure needs to be, and that's the amount that we have. We agreed to that with HBO, and as I said, the exchange of e-mails states that we have both agreed on how much money we would accept, and we have that amount."