Comments Thread For: Main Events: No Interest in Stevenson-Kovalev Purse Bid

[MDPopescu]

Free money, doe...
That's the future.

[Mitchell Kane]

When she lobbied the WBC for this i'm pretty sure it was before the announcement of PBC. She probably underestimated the sort of capital backing Haymon was going to get for his venture.

Pretty much.

Duva lobbied in December, the PBC "time buy" news came in January.

Even the early estimates of investors with $100 million weren't big enough, as the reports are his investors are willing to lose multiples of that.

[AllBoxingAD]

Send a contract without negotiating, when Kovalev still has a fight pending?

You get negotiations going with an initial offer.

This is done all the time man.

She says HBO is serious about putting the fight together? Prove it.

Prove it to the fans if nothing else.

Ill be the first to call out Stevenson for turning down a good offer.

And spare me the "he got a mando coming up" talk. The mando changes nothing and that doesnt stop promoters from negotiating future fights.

[Scipio2009]

Not surprising. HBO have got Duva by the **** hairs here. They have a contract for Kovalev to fight on their network and they dont want him taken away for his biggest fight due to losing bid, and they dont want to pay ****** money to compete with Uncle Al.

Still confused about why they would go for purse bids in the first though

because Main Events spent so much time online, reading blogs, that they honestly believed that Stevenson would rather vacate his belt than fight Kovalev, out of utter fear.

once they realized Stevenson wasn't running away and his promoter was backing his man with real dollars, Duva ran to HBO as quick as she could (unless she's an abject lair, the Pascal fight was the last one on the deal and, even if the move triggered some kind of fight option, Kovalev was going to fight Mohammedi before the Stevenson fight anyway)

[AllBoxingAD]

Quebecers are sick of Quackenson.

Can't we move on and stop talking about this disgrace?

We are?

Based on what?

Have you read the news lately?

[aboutfkntime]

He already ducked those fights, Hopkins is with GBP anyway. You think Stevenson wants Beterbiev?

Kovalev's not crossing networks, they've made that clear. Either it gets signed on HBO or it doesn't happen all.

I'd like to see it, Stevenson can (theoretically) make it happen. Kovalev's hands are tied.

Rubbish !

It could go to purse bid, and HBO could pull their head in or lose Kovalev permanently at his next contract extension.

Its called negotiation, and being reasonable.

HBO/Shotime are working together for Pac/Mayweather.

You just endorsed a bullshht excuse, no idea why.

[aboutfkntime]

Bloody network executives again ruining boxing!

And fans like Weebler support it whole-heartedly.

And would prefer to pay rather than watch the fight for free, wtf ?

smh

[Pigeons]

Pretty much.

Duva lobbied in December, the PBC "time buy" news came in January.

Even the early estimates of investors with $100 million weren't big enough, as the reports are his investors are willing to lose multiples of that.

Do you understand investing?

[Weebler I]

lol

and Kovalev fights whom? His IBF mandatory, maybe Chilemba, and then what? for **** money too, since Kovalev still isn't much of a ticket seller on his own.

Stevenson has the lineal championship, is now in a position where his camp called Main Event's bluff and Kovalev is left looking like a chump. "Superman" continues to fight in Montreal, with fights aired stateside over the PBC platforms and with better opponent options than Kovalev, while always having that trump card of a Stevenson-Bute fight in his pocket (let alone Stevenson-Pascal still having value, barring Pascal picking up a few wins).

Stevenson will continue to get bigger purses (as long as he's champion), will be in more meaningful fights, and will laugh as Kovalev looks to convince viewers that Dominic Boesel (WBO#1 challenger) from some 5,000 seater in Jersey is worth their attention.

Like Sukhotsky and Bika? Its all very well talking about Stevenson's great options but what use are they if he doesn't fight any of them?

The next meaningful fight Stevenson will be in is probably Chilemba since that is his mandatory.

Rubbish !

It could go to purse bid, and HBO could pull their head in or lose Kovalev permanently at his next contract extension.

Its called negotiation, and being reasonable.

HBO/Shotime are working together for Pac/Mayweather.

You just endorsed a bullshht excuse, no idea why.

Lose him to who? you think Main Events are going to hand control of their fighter to Haymon boxing and sign a long term deal with PBC? unrealistic.

HBO-Sho workin for Pac-Mayweather is an exception, there's a lot of money to make it worthwhile.

because Main Events spent so much time online, reading blogs, that they honestly believed that Stevenson would rather vacate his belt than fight Kovalev, out of utter fear.

once they realized Stevenson wasn't running away and his promoter was backing his man with real dollars, Duva ran to HBO as quick as she could (unless she's an abject lair, the Pascal fight was the last one on the deal and, even if the move triggered some kind of fight option, Kovalev was going to fight Mohammedi before the Stevenson fight anyway)

Main Events wanted to make the fight in late 2013, in early 2014 and now in 2015, they didn't want Stevenson to vacate but Kovalev crossing networks was never part of their plan.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

So Duva says 50/50 or no fight??? so why demand a purse bid to begin with?

Because PBC will pay more...

50/50 of what amount? Is it 5 mil? In a purse bid they could get 7 or 8 mil 50/50..
It's obvious hbo and duva won't be able to match the offer Haymon puts together.. So in reality, duva wants kovolev to take less of a payday because she can't pay them as much as PBC