Comments Thread For: Stevenson Focused On Fonfara, as Hopkins Bout Looms

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

By Jake Donovan - For the third straight time, Adonis Stevenson enters a fight as the defending World light heavyweight champion.

For his third straight fight, he enters the ring surrounded by more discussion of who will be on deck than who is standing in front of him.

Fighters insist that their focus remains solely on the task at hand. Given what Stevenson has been through and that he remains champion, we have no choice but to believe him when he says that all of his attention is placed on upcoming challenger Andrzej Fonfara, and not the prospect of a unification showdown down the road with multi-belted Bernard Hopkins.

“I'm very hungry. I'm not overlooking Andrzej Fonfara,” Stevenson (23-1, 20KO) promises heading into this weekend’s title fight at the Bell Centre in Montreal (Saturday, SHOWTIME, 9:00PM ET). “I'm very hungry. I'm not thinking (about) Bernard Hopkins. I'm thinking (about) Andrzej Fonfara. He's in front of me. I'm ready. I know he's going to be ready. It's going to be a tough fight. I'm going to put on a great show.” [Click Here To Read More]

[jas]

Stevenson be overrated which is good so that when Hopkins beats him and rides off into the sunset it would look so epic to the boxing world.

[Fr3$h]

Stevenson be overrated which is good so that when Hopkins beats him and rides off into the sunset it would look so epic to the boxing world.

I'm thinking about the same.

[kafkod]

By Jake Donovan - For the third straight time, Adonis Stevenson enters a fight as the defending World light heavyweight champion.

“I'm very hungry. I'm not thinking (about) Bernard Hopkins.

I'm not thinking about Hopkins either. I'm thinking about who Adonis should have been fighting after Fonfara, if world title fights really were about finding out who is the best guy at that weight.

[bbos]

I'm not thinking about Hopkins either. I'm thinking about who Adonis should have been fighting after Fonfara, if world title fights really were about finding out who is the best guy at that weight.

Stevenson already made sure fighting the best opposition won't happen, stevenson is all about cashing out while he can.

[Snake4380]

I hope Stevenson requests at least USADA if not VADA testing for Hopkins...guy has never been blood tested, refused testing against Jean Pascal, and is winning alphabet soup titles at 49...

[yoshik]

Who cares...

...what this classless clown and new Haymon refugee has to say. B Hop will school this one dimensional toad. Adonis has NO boxing skills, NO cardio, no balance and B Hop will take away his power. Kov will beat them both.

[bopbopbbe]

Hopkins will probably beat Stevenson, i dont think stevenson can handle his inside game.

[Bigg Rigg]

There's actually some good that can come out of this duck move by Stevenson. He's on Showtime now and after this fight, he can get Hopkins. And I hope he beats the dog **** outta Bernard. I wouldn't even care if Stevenson ducks Drago for the rest of his career. He beats down Hopkins, I'll give him a pass!

[VG_Addict]

Any chance of Stevenson being an ATG?