Comments Thread For: Hopkins Explains Checkmate on Stevenson, Kovalev Deal

[MMegatron]

haha awesome fk stevenson and haymon

bhop legend

[jas]

hopkins just owned al haymon

[MDPopescu]

The demographics of this board is loaded with deep and enlightened thinking.

[The Big Dunn]

Business is tricky sometimes...
Hopkins was supposed to lean towards the "Floyd/Schaefer/Haymon project"...
Schaefer failed to buyout GBP from Oscar and Hopkins holds 5% of the shares.
Therefore Hopkins took the business decision to stick with Oscar and also protect his own business status within GBP -- hence the Kovalev fight on HBO.

You were saying he wasn't going to fight kovalev and that he'd find a way to pull out the fight. Do you still believe that?

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

The best two (and non Haymon fighters) facing each other. While Stevenson (Haymon fighter) fights TBA. About time people start seeing the pattern.

[MDPopescu]

You were saying he wasn't going to fight kovalev and that he'd find a way to pull out the fight. Do you still believe that?

The business context seems to become a lot different -- and it strongly shows a particular business related reason for this fight.
As about the specific "boxing reasons" I still maintain that B-Hop doesn't have to fight the likes of Kovalev, Stevenson or Ward at this old age.

[mathed]

Haymon is trying to run the sport but he has too many fighters sitting on the shelf and his greed is backing his entire business into a corner.

[Public_Enemy]

I'm glad Hopkins gave some insight on Haymon's manipulative tactics. He thought he could drag out negotiations until Hopkins got stripped because there's no way Hopkins would face Kovalev. Hopkins showed that he really is determined to unify the division.

Haymon lost out on both ends but he'll still make some money off of Stevenson/Pascal. Stevenson's image has been tarnished considerably though.

[The Big Dunn]

The business context seems to become a lot different -- and it strongly shows a particular business related reason for this fight.
As about the specific "boxing reasons" I still maintain that B-Hop doesn't have to fight the likes of Kovalev, Stevenson or Ward at this old age.

Ok. You did seem very sure this was a ploy by Bhop. Let's hope we get a great fight.

[Foreign Soil]

Stevenson is left with Braehmer, who backed out of fights with both Cleverly and Shumenov. This means Stevenson is now in a worse position than Kovalev before he went and got Cleverly's WBO belt. Beautiful justice.