Comments Thread For: Stevenson Will Take 50-50 on Kovalev, Networks To Bid

[skinnystev]

kovalev is hiding behind the skirts of cathy duva and hbo

[tiliheels]

Complete BS and you can thank Haymon for this. This fight was signed and done and then Haymon creeps in and signs Stevenson and now we got this crap. If Stevenson was signed to literally any other promoter this fight would of been already happened. He has no intentions of fighting on HBO despite the fact that Stevenson supposedly has no contract with a "promoter" or network. If he is a "free agent" only signed to Haymon this fight being on HBO should be no issue. Kovalev is signed HBO fighter he can't elsewhere.

The purse bid was a sham from day one to refuse negotiating directly. Also if it did go to purse bid there is no guarantee the fight happens. Remember Roc Nation over bid Haymon in a purse bid. But even after losing the bid Haymon refused to let his fighter be on a Roc Nation card and forced him to vacate the belt rather then fight an opponent he wanted him to fight. If Duva outbid Haymon we could of seen the same result. Haymon wants the purse bid because it's a win win for him. He can over bid to put the fight on PBC (knowing Duva can't do this) or if he loses he does what he did with Quillen and still stops the fight from happening.

yea stevenson was only gettin 500k for the fight lol...thats a joke when ggg just got 1.75million to fight monroe...blame hbo for being cheap..cant tell a fighter not to make his money while other are..duva backed out of a 10 million dollar offer haymon was going to put up...NOW THATS WAT U CALL A PROBLEM

[MrP4P]

Makes absolute sense. Go to the network that is offering more money. Why are you guys getting on Stevenson? This is Haymon ACTUALLY doing his job. Its no ones fault Duva had to whore herself out to HBO to give Kovalev a platform. She only put one horse in the race, so HBO basically pays what they want. This fight can be on HBO if HBO is willing to put up the money. What is wrong with what hes saying here? You always go where the money is.

Team Kovalev(HBO) is stopping this fight. Period.

[Scipio2009]

but kovalev can't fight on another network so stevenson will take the deal which isn't possible? how about if the fight on hbo pays you more than a fight on pbc then you take it instead of trying to take a fantasy offer.

.... HBO doesn't pay better than PBC though; Kovalev apparently just made a disclosed $750k for the Mohammedi fight, less than half of what was disclosed for Stevenson making for his fight with Bika. lol

[Sosay]

I got Kovalev! But damn, how doesn't this makes sense? Big fight, HBO or whoever else has to pony up! Saying it has to be on any network is dumb move! If ESPN offers the most, they should fight there

[Sweet Jones]

Makes absolute sense. Go to the network that is offering more money. Why are you guys getting on Stevenson? This is Haymon ACTUALLY doing his job. Its no ones fault Duva had to whore herself out to HBO to give Kovalev a platform. She only put one horse in the race, so HBO basically pays what they want. This fight can be on HBO if HBO is willing to put up the money. What is wrong with what hes saying here? You always go where the money is.

Team Kovalev(HBO) is stopping this fight. Period.

It would seem pretty obvious, wouldn't it?

[NEETzsche]

.... HBO doesn't pay better than PBC though; Kovalev apparently just made a disclosed $750k for the Mohammedi fight, less than half of what was disclosed for Stevenson making for his fight with Bika. lol

he made $3.25m against pascal on normal hbo + canadian ppv. what's stevenson's highest pay day?

[ricodonjefe]

Hey Stevenson F_ck you and Haymon WARRR KOVALOV...

[New England]

promotors have figured out how to use networks to block fights


thanks a lot, al haymon.

[Build That Wall]

Put it on PBC so it is for Free.