Comments Thread For: Duva: Haymon Needs Better Fight To Hurt Kovalev Card

[big_james10]

Promoter Kathy Duva of Main Events does not feel threatened by the recently announced event for July 25 at the Palms Casino in Las Vegas. The Palms card will be a "Premier Boxing Champions" televised event on NBC Sports. In the headliner, cruiserweights BJ Flores and Beibut Shumenov will do battle. Both boxers reside in Las Vegas.

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No, he doesn't! Neither card will draw more than 4,000 paid attendees and they wouldn't draw more than 4,000 even if they were contested on different night. The two combined will not draw more than Broner/Porter.

[big_james10]

"it's just another example of Haymons behavior"

Yes because Haymon is the first promoter to ever stage a fight the same night as another fight.

Absolutely. Haymon is the first and only promoter/manager/advisor to ever do anything immoral, illegal or shady in the history of boxing, according to the experts who post on this site.

[big_james10]

With the lackluster cards so far on PBC,at least I know with Kovalev fighting it won't be boring.

It won't be boring if you like one-sided beatdowns, which seems to be the type of fight that 90 percent of the people on this site prefer.

[big_james10]

Haha all the pbc fangirls crack me up. But the shumenov fight is competitive. Wow that's literally the first time I hear them say that for an actual pbc card

Critics like you talk as if PBC displays nothing but mismatches while every HBO fight is a great, competitive fight. PBC has had a more competitive fights since it started in March than HBO has all year. I can't remember any competitive fights on HBO this year other than Kovalev/Pascal and Bradley/Vargas. Alvarez/Kirkland, Golovkin/Munroe Jr, Lomachenko vs whoever were all mismatches.

This is a serious question. Can you or anyone else on this site tell me which fights have appeared on HBO this year that were competitive other than the two I have mentioned because I seriously cannot remember any?

[Larry the boss]

"it's just another example of Haymons behavior"

Yes because Haymon is the first promoter to ever stage a fight the same night as another fight.

Exactly my thoughts,it happens all the time

[big_james10]

How many of those match-ups were you excited for? either one of the HBO fights you listed was more anticipated than all of those Haymon fights put together.

It is amazing how many lame-ass excuses haters come up with. I thought I had heard them all, but now you come up with match-ups you were excited for!

[HI-TECH Boxing]

Im saying Duva is getting kov in there with the big dogs. Shes getting kov money and alot of it. Look at how much kov is making and look at ggg pay. Probably would be the same or kov with more money. Even if kov isn't selling as much as ggg he is still making similar money if not more

And I agree top rank is putting all their effort on Valdez and verdejo and it's disgusting. Loma has already accomplished more than the both of them and isnt as promoted as those two

That's kind of proving my point. Kovalev has been tested against better oppostion but GGG is the bigger star. That's because K2 has done an excellent job at marketing GGG, while Main Events has taken risks with Kovalev they have done a horrible job at marketing him imo. Kov has only made over a million once though.

Well Valdez is Mexican and Verdejo is PR. Top Rank only pushes fighters with built in fan bases, this is why Eastern European fighters will strugle with Top Rank. Loma should have signed with PBC or K2 imo. Vasyl has way more potential than Valdez and Verdejo but won't be pushed like them because he simply doesn't have the built-in fanbase, which is such a shame. PBC pushes fighters whether they have a huge fanbase or not. Beterbiev and Khytrov are getting plenty of TV time. I can't believe people hate PBC.

[HeroBando]

That's kind of proving my point. Kovalev has been tested against better oppostion but GGG is the bigger star. That's because K2 has done an excellent job at marketing GGG, while Main Events has taken risks with Kovalev they have done a horrible job at marketing him imo. Kov has only made over a million once though.

Well Valdez is Mexican and Verdejo is PR. Top Rank only pushes fighters with built in fan bases, this is why Eastern European fighters will strugle with Top Rank. Loma should have signed with PBC or K2 imo. Vasyl has way more potential than Valdez and Verdejo but won't be pushed like them because he simply doesn't have the built-in fanbase, which is such a shame. PBC pushes fighters whether they have a huge fanbase or not. Beterbiev and Khytrov are getting plenty of TV time. I can't believe people hate PBC.

GGG has only made 1m once and he's a far better draw. And IMO a better, more talented fighter, pretty sure Kovalev would agree

[HI-TECH Boxing]

GGG has only made 1m once and he's a far better draw. And IMO a better, more talented fighter, pretty sure Kovalev would agree

Big GGG fan, but Kovalev will go down as being a better fighter once it's all said and done.

[SlySlickSmooth]

Shumenov is the guy who trains himself right?