Comments Thread For: Kovalev: Stevenson Deserves Belt of Mickey Mouse!

[Hype job]

Kovalev might not be around either.

Stevenson is fighting guys that can punch.

Kovalev is fighting guys he KNOWS can't hurt him.
Just look at his resume....NO punchers.

Cleverly...Silkah...and Hopkins...can't bust a g****.

Gonzales....Bika...Fonfara.....they can hurt you.

Bika is a tough fight for anybody....you'll never how Kovalev would have handled him.


Duva was smart to get Kovalev out of the Stevenson fight.

Kovalev, GGG and Lomachenko got you feeling some type of way huh?

[robbyheartbaby]

Dude you cannot knock Kovalev, he beat Cleverly, Hopkins and Pascal! Let's be honest here, he is the king of the division not Stevenson. Kovalev won't fight on another nextwork, he wants Stevenson but it has to be on HBO. Don't go saying s*** like Kovalev backed out of a fight with Stevenson, everyone including you knows better.

Sergey Kovalev will fight Mohammedi next, and then have two bum fights to fill the rest of the year, all because he refused to push for the Stevenson fight when everything in boxing was aligned to make that fight.

world boxing rankings - 175
wbo
1. Dominic Boesel
2. Isaac Chilemba
6. Isidro Ranoni Prieto
8. Sean Monaghan
9. Trevor McCumby
10. Sulivan Barrera
11. Mirco Ricci
12. Enrico Koelling
13. Umar Salamov
14. Konni Konrad
15. Robin Krasniqi

wba
1. VACANT
5. Sean Monaghan
10. Medzhid Bektemirov
11. Robin Krasniqi
12. Konni Konrad
13. Mirco Ricci
14. Azea Augustama
15. Sullivan Barrera

ibf
4. Erik Skoglund
5. Isaac Chilemba
7. Sean Monaghan
9. Konni Konrad
12. Sullivan Barrera
14. Igor Mikhalkin
15. Yuniesky Gonzalez

And this is without eliminating the foreign-based fighters not willing to travel for the maybe $250k that would be available for them as opponents.

Stevenson, after trying to make the Kovalev fight which Team Krusher backed out on, will likely fight Edwin Rodriguez in July/August, have the Fonfara rematch in the Fall, and then fight Jean Pascal/Lucian Bute early next year.

more meaningful than any next three fights for Kovalev, with Stevenson likely making more money for the three as well.

[kej718]

If it went to a purse bid then which ever network put up the money should get the fight period. You can't keep saying Stevenson's name and not show up at a purse bid period. Fonfara is better than anyone Kovalev has faced.

[PunchyPotorff]

It's hilarious to read the panzee rants of the ******man disciples... but not even remotely as hilarious as that deer-in-the-headlights look on the pimp's face when Krusher Kov drops him like a wet sack of laundry. And it will happen inside 6. And even better, Krusher is getting paid well these days.

[Tay Roc]

Kovalev is a racist. He compared Adonis to a rat.

[GRIP STACCIN]

has this hateful supremacist gave a apology yet??

[Tay Roc]

has this hateful supremacist gave a apology yet??

Yes, at the local klan rally he apologized.

[Scipio2009]

You're criticizing Kovalev for fighting his mandatories? lol.

When is Stevenson going to fight his mandatories?

The top 3 at WBC : Chilemba, Beterbiev and Alvarez. Will he fight any of those guys this year?

I'm going to say no way.

I'm criticizing Kovalev for putting the security of a "fight four bums a year on HBO" contract over taking the fight with Stevenson, the very title that he's been goading the man for and disparaging the man in public in regards to.

Kovalev was going to fight his IBF mandatory before the proposed Stevenson fight anyway.

Kovalev was declared Stevenson's mandatory challenger, and until the WBC declares a new mandatory challenger, since Kovalev punked out, Stevenson will fight names ranked in the WBC's top 15.

Chilemba is with Main Events(Duva) and Beterbiev and Alvarez are both in-house fighters with GYM, so those fights won't be happening soon. (He'll probably rematch Andrezj Fonfara, the WBC's actual #2 challenger, though).

Still, none of that changes the reality that Kovalev has locked himself into two **** fights following the mandatory defense, which isn't all that good a fight in its own right.

hope you enjoy those 50:1 fights to close out the year.

[Mike D]

Yes, at the local klan rally he apologized.

[Scipio2009]

Stevenson can still fight him on HBO...

Why fight on HBO for a $2m US TV rights fee, when the fight is worth significantly more than that on the market (with Showtime and PBC on ESPN both positioned to draw interest in such a fight)?