Haymon willing to lay 10 million for Stevenson/Kovalev for September 26th in Quebec

[Crazylegs77]

NBC and HBO should both air this fight!

Yes!
NBC PPV
&
HBO

[Eff Pandas]

I love the ease at which boxing fans throwaway millions of dollars of other peoples money.

If HBO isn't giving fighters what they are worth, then eff em. Go elsewhere.

I can't in good mind call a guy a ducker for getting his value. And thats anyone. The fact that Sergey was willing to take the fight with Adonis for lesser money is probably a testament to him needing the money bad enough with how lil he was getting paid & how much he owed his promoter(?) then him being more willing to fight then Adonis. Adonis was looking at the longer game & knew there was more money to be made.

Now they got the bigger money in place. Lets get this happening.

[arraamis]

But Stevenson is ducking Kovalev doe.

Adding this to what you stated:

But Haymon was helping Stevenson avoid Kovalev doe.

[Mikhnienko]

Klimas is a manager and Haymon is an adviser, there's room for co-existence. Haymon could potentially offer a greater deal and it would be in Klimas' best interest for his fighters to do it. Basically Haymon's cutt is a league fee.

We know Haymon can match the money over the next 4 years, provide more exposure in terms of tv, and has access to more bigger name opponents. Who will HBO be able to offer Kovalev to fight come next year? Plus more exposure on national tv could lead to large sponsorship deals.

I'm sure Haymon recognizes he needs dominant action fighters to really sell his league, and he may be willing to make very lucrative offers to the big 3.

Chilemba - Main Events
Gvozdyk - Top Rank
Mekhontsev - Top Rank
Shabranskyy - Golden Boy
Isidoro Prieto
Yunieski Gonzalez - Star Boxing
Sullivan Berrera - Main Events
Salamov - K2
Skoglund - Sauerland
Ahlin - Sauerland
Bivol - Ryabinskiy
Sean Monaghan - Top Rank

All Haymon has is Bute, Alverez, Browne and Beterbiev although his contract isn't the standard Haymon deal Artur and his manager Anna Reva negotiated a better deal. Don't know if it would allow him to face Kovalev if it can only happen on HBO though.

[MDPopescu]

Not only could Haymon offer more money than HBO, but he could open up tv dates for her other fighters. Uncle Al knows that if he's able to steal away Kovalev from HBO (and maybe Golovkin and Lomachenko next year), the PBC's credibility is a lock and HBO is either going to have to play ball or get out. Just some strategy I could see playing out.

... I don't think that Haymon started all these just in order to make himself a Slavic stable... I guess it was the contrary...

[Cinci Champ]

If kovs hbo deal is up right now and he signs with hbo does that mean he's ducking Adonis?

lol u just love to say fighters are ducking

[Mikhnienko]

... I don't think that Haymon started all these just in order to make himself a Slavic stable... I guess it was the contrary...

Lulz oh ya Loeffler, Duva and Arum are real likely to forego their duties and become Haymon subsidiaries like no backbone Dibella. Kathy and Tom are some of the last real promoters left and Arum Lulz i'm sure.

[Mitchell Kane]

Lulz oh ya Loeffler, Duva and Arum are real likely to forego their duties and become Haymon subsidiaries like no backbone Dibella. Kathy and Tom are some of the last real promoters left and Arum Lulz i'm sure.

Exactly.

It's like some of these people forget it was Duva who filed lawsuit against Haymon and GBP which led, in part, to their breakup by claiming Haymon and Schaefer were trying "to wrest control of Golden Boy from Oscar De La Hoya for their own financial gain" etc.

[brickcityboxing]

I wish I had a made a Christmas list of which fights I want to see made. If I were, this would be a top 3:
1. Mayweather-Pacquiao: signed and scheduled for May 2nd
2. Kovalev-Stevenson
3. GGG-Cotto

It looks like #2 is creeping closer to being realized provided that Stevenson gets by Bika and Kovalev does his job in dispatching his IBF mandatory challenger. Finally, we get to see the lineal champion against the best in the division. It should have happened last year but I won't get into why it didn't happened as there may have been countless threads on that particular matter. Let's just get the bidding out of the way so the fight fans can get the fight they really want.

Throw in Juanma vs Gamboa or is that one still marinating? Lol

[Eastcoast]

Chilemba - Main Events
Gvozdyk - Top Rank
Mekhontsev - Top Rank
Shabranskyy - Golden Boy
Isidoro Prieto
Yunieski Gonzalez - Star Boxing
Sullivan Berrera - Main Events
Salamov - K2
Skoglund - Sauerland
Ahlin - Sauerland
Bivol - Ryabinskiy
Sean Monaghan - Top Rank

All Haymon has is Bute, Alverez, Browne and Beterbiev although his contract isn't the standard Haymon deal Artur and his manager Anna Reva negotiated a better deal. Don't know if it would allow him to face Kovalev if it can only happen on HBO though.

All those fighters need to be developed into an attraction, non with certainty either. Kovavlev will want to have big fights now and next year. Stevenson, Beterbiev, Bute, Alvarez would make for big fights in Montreal.

... I don't think that Haymon started all these just in order to make himself a Slavic stable... I guess it was the contrary...

Haymon made an exception to his contract terms in order to make a deal with Betbiev. Nor did he hesitate to sign Khytrov, Derevyanchenko, Khurtsidze, Golub. Now there are rumors of him and Marco Huck. And with his ambition to bring PBC to UK, rest of Europe wouldn't be far behind. Given who his primary investors are, I don't think he would limit himself to small scale in the US only. Furthermore, I think he's aware he needs action fighters to complement his 'slick' fighters.

Exactly.

It's like some of these people forget it was Duva who filed lawsuit against Haymon and GBP which led, in part, to their breakup by claiming Haymon and Schaefer were trying "to wrest control of Golden Boy from Oscar De La Hoya for their own financial gain" etc.

Duva gave multiple interviews criticizing the cold war, and gave examples where her husband would sue Don King and turn around to make business with him. She'll do whatever she determines to be in her companies' best interest, which as I pointed out Haymon is capable right now of out matching HBO in terms of money & tv dates, not to mention audience reach.