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

[El-blanco]

HBO is dying and I love it.

Lol what kind of b1tch are you?

[HanzGruber]

Fight is on the table Gruber, Adonis is free to sign if he genuinely wants it.

Purse bids are normally seen as a good thing on here. But not when it comes to kovalev lol

[MDPopescu]

The difference right now is HBO is presumably paying market prices, and Haymon isn't.

When you've got investors who are willing to lose hundreds of millions of dollars, you can overpay.

Michel wants a purse bid, Duva wants a negotiation...and neither are budging.

I don't see why Michel can't meeting with HBO and Main Events, hear their offer...he can always say "I heard their offer, it's 1/3 of what we can get on the PBC or SHO." That would put more pressure on HBO to let the fight happen.

Not that I think it would change things, because HBO and the PBC are competitors.

Yvon Michel has no word as of lately -- all it's in Haymon's hands.

[ManAnimalX]

Kovalev a Racist and Neo ****?

I Report. You Decide.



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Boom. :ANYWORD:

[kiaba360]

Depends who it is I guess. Not holding breath of him matching them with Stevenson though, he appears to have chosen the easy opponent route.

Top guy in the WBC rankings is Chilemba now which makes it interesting if Kovalev-Stevenson isn't made.

Down the line Kovalev may be faced with vacating or crossing networks which he may not be able to do given an exclusivity agreement.



That's not how most fights are made, and it's definitely not how fights are made when one side has an exclusive contract with a network which is the situation right now.



It's like the people who wanted Pacquiao to take a flat $40 million, fight on Showtime and sign with Mayweather Promotions. You not only have to chase the fight, you have to bend over backwards for the other side and fight on their promotion and network. Stevenson is no Mayweather level draw either.



Problem is, HBO's had their boxing budget reduced after years of getting ****d by Al Haymon.

Duva could be trying to maneuver Chilemba into position by moving Kovalev out of the way. Chilemba vs. Alvarez, and the winner faces Adonis.

There are some posters criticizing Duva's roster, but GYM's isn't in much better shape. Both need this match-up. The promoters are just pawns in the Haymon/HBO war.

[Humean]

... Adonis wants to maximise the money?
It's simple: sell the 20,000 seats in the Bell Centre, make it PPV on both HBO and Showtime.
... But Haymon rather wants Adonis to fight Bute, right?

I'm guessing the fight is not big enough to get HBO and Showtime to jointly do a PPV. At most this fight can be HBO PPV in the States and whatever the Canadian PPV channel is in Canada. Unfortunately Haymon likely has zero interest in putting Stevenson in with Kovalev and the chances that Stevenson wants to fight Kovalev are probably also pretty slim.

[Mitchell Kane]

I'm guessing the fight is not big enough to get HBO and Showtime to jointly do a PPV. At most this fight can be HBO PPV in the States and whatever the Canadian PPV channel is in Canada. Unfortunately Haymon likely has zero interest in putting Stevenson in with Kovalev and the chances that Stevenson wants to fight Kovalev are probably also pretty slim.

The fight isn't really even big enough for the PBC...because if it did go to the PBC, it would likely be because Haymon and his investors overpaid and would lose money.

That's what his investor's plan is...to spend heavily and lose money short term.

The whole market is distorted, and will be for at least the next couple years.

[MDPopescu]

I'm guessing the fight is not big enough to get HBO and Showtime to jointly do a PPV. At most this fight can be HBO PPV in the States and whatever the Canadian PPV channel is in Canada. Unfortunately Haymon likely has zero interest in putting Stevenson in with Kovalev and the chances that Stevenson wants to fight Kovalev are probably also pretty slim.

You said it, I didn't.

(Eventually, the Russian killer will end up by chasing Adonis on some back alley in the Quebec region.)

[Mitchell Kane]

Yvon Michel has no word as of lately -- all it's in Haymon's hands.

I know Michel is a Haymon puppet, but he could still take the meeting.

[MDPopescu]

The fight isn't really even big enough for the PBC...

Of course... While Quillin vs Lee and Adonis vs Bika were big enough...