Comments Thread For: Adonis Stevenson To Face Sukhotsky on December 19?

[Check_hooks]

I don't think I've ever seen a Fighter of the Year fall off this much in 1 year

This is pathetic

[Cinci Champ]

Stevenson has really hit the big time since signing with Haymon

depends how u look at it hes making more to fight bums

[nycsmooth]

this is the type bout that can only hurt Stevenson if he doesn't blow the guy out...

[Daddy T]

WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson (24-1, 20KOs) has been confirmed to return on December 19th, on Showtime, at the Pepsi Coliseum in Quebec, Canada. As BoxingScene.com previously reported, one of the frontrunners to face him is Russian contender Dmitry Sukhotsky (22-2, 16 KOs). Sukhotsky has never been stopped, with decision losses to Cornelius White and Juergen Braehmer. Stevenson was last in action in December, with a tough twelve round decision victory over Andrzej Fonfara.

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Dimitry who?

[Citizen Koba]

Dimitry who?

Well...indeed.

Nonetheless, Sukhotsky ain't terrible given who's actually available (though Campillo would have been nice and FWIW I wouldn't have minded Stevenson vs Agnew).

He'll obviously be a considerable underdog, but he's pretty tough and can ****. Certainly he has the capacity to hurt Stevenson if he can land, but is kinda flat-footed and a little slow.

FWIW Sukhotsky was one of the guys I thought Kovalev might end up fighting when it looked like he was gonna get shut out of the unification stakes.

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Nonetheless, Sukhotsky ain't terrible given who's actually available

We can't really use the "given who's available" excuse with Stevenson... He had the top 2 in the division lined up ducked both until they fought each other instead.

[Hougigo]

I want to see that joey Vegas fight and why the cards were so close

[bojangles1987]

Quack quack quack.

[VG_Addict]

I'd love it if Sukhotsky were able to KO Stevenson.

[Clegg]

Jean Pascal is already the WBC mandatory challenger, with GYM and Interbox both targeting a Spring 2015 showdown in Montreal for the Stevenson-Pascal fight.

Adonis Stevenson takes a solid "stay busy" fight, against an opponent who's supposed to be rugged enough to make for an entertaining fight, and he gets another opportunity to be featured on TV, and in the promotional material that Showtime puts up, to raise his public profile even hire.

Stevenson does what he's supposed to do next year, Hopkins does what he's supposed to do in November, and you've got a massive showdown, with the Barclays Center and the MGM Grand as likely venues, that has massive impact on the sport and gets both parties handsomely paid, regardless of the result of the fight.

What's the issue hear?

I remember when Stevenson fans were like "what's the big deal? He'll fight Kovalev, after one more fight vs someone else". Then it was "what's the big deal? He'll fight Hopkins, after one more fight vs someone else". Now it's that he'll fight Hopkins, after two more fights against other people

Stevenson is 37 and moving further away from the fights that were once right there to be made, and there is no reason to think that he won't go after Bute after Pascal.