Comments Thread For: Kovalev, Main Events Withdraw From Stevenson Purse Bid

[I Love Jesus!]

Lol at PPV, No one even knows who these guys are

[Eff Pandas]

one of Haymon's 9 year slave contracts.

Yea that'd suck. Leo Santa Cruz fighting cab drivers for $750,000 on his "slave contract". Rough times indeed.

[Eff Pandas]

Lol at PPV, No one even knows who these guys are

No doubt.

The biggest roadblock to making this fight is no one actually cares if it happens THAT much. Promoters, fans, HBO, PBC, Adonis or Sergey. There is some core group of hardcore fans that wanna see it & some Canadians. Thats it. Its not THAT big of a fight despite some saying it is.

It is a fight between the top 2 guys in the division so sure lets see it for that reason alone, but lol at PPVing Adonis whatshisname vs Sergey Idontknowhowtopronouncethat.

[Foreign Soil]

You've been embarrassing yourself ever since team Kov ducked lol. Jesus Christ. Imagine that. A lsc fan supporting a duck move

I think it's funny as hell how you chumps scramble for crumbs, since you've got hardly anything else of note going for you.

[TheThirdEye]

Lets hope Provodnikov is not ****** racist & anti-semic as Mr. withdraw Kovalev is.

It's a shame for this sport, because Kovalev was surfing over a surreal wave of admiration, since Stevenson signed a better deal with Showtime. But in fact, Kovalev signed his deal with HBO (AFTER) Stevenson went to Showtime, I didn't say before, I said Kovalev signed AFTER.
And now that Haymon manage to open more options for all boxers, Kovalev re-signed another contract with HBO (AFTER) his victory over Jean Pascal, which clearly show how team Kovalev were bluffing all along about Stevenson. Kovalev is now playing the Jean Pascal game, by attempting to convince his fans that Stevenson doesn't want to fight him even when he mocks Stevenson, when in facts, he & Kathy Duva are the ones running in the opposite direction.

I wonder what John David Jackson think about this fraud.

[GaryMSchneider]

The biggest fight to be made in the light heavyweight division… will have to wait a little longer, it seems.

Efforts to get World light heavyweight king Adonis Stevenson and unbeaten three-belt titlist Sergey Kovalev in the ring have proven to be an uphill struggle. The latest chapter in their growing rivalry now points to the eventual cancelation of a purse bid hearing scheduled for Friday, April 17.

“Today we have communicated with the WBC and Yvon Michel. We informed the WBC that, while Sergey Kovalev is more anxious than ever to face Adonis Stevenson in order to become the Undisputed Light Heavyweight Champion by the end of 2015, he will not participate in the purse bid for the unification bout that has been ordered by the WBC,” confirmed Kathy Duva, CEO of Main Events.

As a result, Kovalev will forfeit his position as mandatory challenger to Stevenson’s WBC title. However, the withdrawal from the purse bid did not come without a counter offer.

“In a letter to Yvon Michel, we proposed to make a voluntary deal for Sergey to fight Adonis Stevenson on HBO or HBO PPV on a 50/50 basis,” informed Dvua. “In this proposal we have included provisions to determine how the various aspects of the promotion would be decided and conducted. These provisions have worked successfully in the past when Main Events participated in co-promotions of bigger events than this one with Top Rank, Golden Boy and Don King, among many others.

“Based upon Mr. Michel’s recent statements to the media, we were very happy to learn that no contractual prohibitions exist that would prevent Adonis from fighting Sergey on HBO. So let’s make the fight!” [Click Here To Read More]

This is one example of what a ****** business man Stevenson is:Stevenson Vs Pascal: JUST THE FACTS

Although Adonis Stevenson is the WBC light heavyweight champion, everybody knows that our position for a 50-50 revenue split is more than fair. Jean Pascal is clearly a much bigger box office star than Adonis Stevenson in the Quebec marketplace. This is not an opinion, this is a fact. And it is supported by several other indisputable facts such as;

1. Jean Pascal has taken part in 3 of the 5 highest grossing fights (including #1) in the history of Canadian boxing and Adonis Stevenson was not involved in the other two.

2. In those three fights, his two with Bernard Hopkins and his January 18 victory over Lucian Bute, Jean Pascal generated more revenue and ticket sales than Adonis Stevenson has in his combined career.

3. Yvon Michel publicly acknowledged that Jean Pascal is a more valuable commodity than Adonis Stevenson. If Jean Pascal can make $1M without a belt to fight Tavoris Cloud after the champion just knocked him out for $650,000 then Jean Pascal is worth significantly more money.

The fact of the matter is that with a victory over Jean Pascal, Adonis Stevenson would be able to sell more than 4,800 tickets in the Bell Centre, thus making himself a box-office attraction. This is the biggest money fight available to both Adonis Stevenson and Jean Pascal. There isn't another fight out there for Adonis that gives him the chance to become a 10,000 plus ticket seller in the province of Quebec. For Adonis this is a career high payday in a fight he would be favored to win and a victory would make a box office star, something he presently is not.

If a career high payday and the opportunity to become a box office star in a fight he'd be favored to win isn't enough for Adonis Stevenson to make a big fight, what exactly will it take? We were even willing to allow GYM back into another multi-fight deal with Jean Pascal Promotions.

The FACTS are that Adonis Stevenson, not Jean Pascal, is the one who blew the two biggest fights available to him. Now it's up to Stevenson to grow a pair and accept a major challenge or blatantly duck his third big fight in the last year or so. A champion who ducks three big fights in favor of bouts against second tier opponents is a champion nobody respects and is easily forgotten, especially at 36 years old.

Our willingness to give the old man a rematch clause is above and beyond our requirements as WBC mandatory challenger. At 36 years old Adonis Stevenson can assure himself at least two big paydays before he turns 40. At the end of the day, boxing is a business and Team Stevenson isn't using their best business sense. They have already lost millions of dollars with the Kovalev and Hopkins bouts and have the potential to lose millions more by choosing another second tier opponent over Jean Pascal.

Considering all of the facts, how does 50-50 not make sense to Team Stevenson? If Jean Pascal is as difficult to deal with as Yvon Michel would have the world believe, then clearly it is impossible to deal with Adonis Stevenson.

If Superman continues to run and hide behind his manager and promoter, Jean Pascal's new nickname will be Kryptonite. And everybody knows what would happen to Superman if he were in a boxing ring with Kryptonite.

[GaryMSchneider]

Yea that'd suck. Leo Santa Cruz fighting cab drivers for $750,000 on his "slave contract". Rough times indeed.

This will show you just how dumb Stevenson is as far as business. Let just take Jean Pascal.Stevenson Vs Pascal: JUST THE FACTS

Although Adonis Stevenson is the WBC light heavyweight champion, everybody knows that our position for a 50-50 revenue split is more than fair. Jean Pascal is clearly a much bigger box office star than Adonis Stevenson in the Quebec marketplace. This is not an opinion, this is a fact. And it is supported by several other indisputable facts such as;

1. Jean Pascal has taken part in 3 of the 5 highest grossing fights (including #1) in the history of Canadian boxing and Adonis Stevenson was not involved in the other two.

2. In those three fights, his two with Bernard Hopkins and his January 18 victory over Lucian Bute, Jean Pascal generated more revenue and ticket sales than Adonis Stevenson has in his combined career.

3. Yvon Michel publicly acknowledged that Jean Pascal is a more valuable commodity than Adonis Stevenson. If Jean Pascal can make $1M without a belt to fight Tavoris Cloud after the champion just knocked him out for $650,000 then Jean Pascal is worth significantly more money.

The fact of the matter is that with a victory over Jean Pascal, Adonis Stevenson would be able to sell more than 4,800 tickets in the Bell Centre, thus making himself a box-office attraction. This is the biggest money fight available to both Adonis Stevenson and Jean Pascal. There isn't another fight out there for Adonis that gives him the chance to become a 10,000 plus ticket seller in the province of Quebec. For Adonis this is a career high payday in a fight he would be favored to win and a victory would make a box office star, something he presently is not.

If a career high payday and the opportunity to become a box office star in a fight he'd be favored to win isn't enough for Adonis Stevenson to make a big fight, what exactly will it take? We were even willing to allow GYM back into another multi-fight deal with Jean Pascal Promotions.

The FACTS are that Adonis Stevenson, not Jean Pascal, is the one who blew the two biggest fights available to him. Now it's up to Stevenson to grow a pair and accept a major challenge or blatantly duck his third big fight in the last year or so. A champion who ducks three big fights in favor of bouts against second tier opponents is a champion nobody respects and is easily forgotten, especially at 36 years old.

Our willingness to give the old man a rematch clause is above and beyond our requirements as WBC mandatory challenger. At 36 years old Adonis Stevenson can assure himself at least two big paydays before he turns 40. At the end of the day, boxing is a business and Team Stevenson isn't using their best business sense. They have already lost millions of dollars with the Kovalev and Hopkins bouts and have the potential to lose millions more by choosing another second tier opponent over Jean Pascal.

Considering all of the facts, how does 50-50 not make sense to Team Stevenson? If Jean Pascal is as difficult to deal with as Yvon Michel would have the world believe, then clearly it is impossible to deal with Adonis Stevenson.

If Superman continues to run and hide behind his manager and promoter, Jean Pascal's new nickname will be Kryptonite. And everybody knows what would happen to Superman if he were in a boxing ring with Kryptonite.

[Merciless1]

Well damn. I stand corrected to a point, but I still think Kov beats Adonis no if and's or buts about it. I had no idea about the purse bid.

[Lester Tutor]

Karma........

[IMDAZED]

The fact that they STILL won't consider a Stevenson fight tells me all I need to know.