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

[TheThirdEye]

So true the one point that is over looked is prior to getting in bed with Haymon Stevenson was putting up big tv ratings on HBO and well respected and locked up to fight a huge fight with Kovalev. Now he ducked Hopkins and Kovalev pulls in dreadful attendance in fights in his own backyard. Meanwhile Kovalev beats Hopkins and Pascal his fanbase is growing not dwindling like Stevenson. Stevenson has not made anywhere near the money that has been put on the table to fight either Kovalev or Hopkins. And he's pushing 40. Haymon is ruining this man's career.

Stevenson-Fonfara gave him 1.8 millions, and against Bika, Stevenson made 3 millions. Stevenson is making mad money, verify your infos before saying things you dont know...

[TheThirdEye]

[Scipio2009]

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

No idea but with that obvious disparity in payouts, it'd seem like the fighter's take off of Canadian PPV could approach $5m+.

Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if Stevenson ended up with the equivalent of $4m once his share of everything was counted for the Sukhotsky fight (Showtime TV rights, money from live gate, Quebec PPV, Canadian PPV, etc).

Wouldn't surprise me if Stevenson's take on the Bika fight was near $3m, too (CBS TV rights, Canadian cable TV, Australian PPV, piece of the gate, etc), with the same being the case for every other fight he's likely to be in as long as he stays champion.

[Scipio2009]

This fight was a done deal when it was just Stevenson's management and promoter, Kovalev's management promoter, and HBO negotiating. Once Haymon got involved the fight died. Originally we were told he was passing on that fight to make more money to fight Bernard Hopkins. Not only did that fight not happen now it's basically impossible for the Kovalev fight to happen with Haymon involved. HBO has proven they have no problems making a fight with any rival promoters. Meanwhile Haymon has proved to be the stop gap to many fights and has problems with almost every other major promoter. This is more about Haymon then it is about HBO. Look at the long list of promoters and boxing en****** Haymon doesn't work with or has beef with. Now look at the list for HBO it's just one name. Haymon. They work with everybody else

lol

completely ignoring the fact that Hopkins was pushing for a 75/25 split of all of the money (with the fight likely destined for Montreal and the large majority of the fight revenues coming off of Canadian PPV).

[HeroBando]

You are either ******ed if you are serious or you this is just some troll **** & in that case well played trolling cuz you ****** me in.

Stevenson next fight is on Spike TV. Exclusive SHO contract lol. And you call me a troll

[The Big Dunn]

Lets make this fight happen. No reason Stevenson and Kov shouldn't earn the most money possible.

[Scipio2009]

Someone stated Haymon is doing his job... Only a Haymon would essentially turn down his biggest payday, because someone else "might" pay more.

This is the equivalent to me as turning down an offer to play with the Patriots for a little less money, to play with the Jaguars because they offered you 100k more, maybe. That's really what it's coming down to, it isn't like someone is going to offer 3 milion then another network says 10. It's going to nearly a penny or penny bid, what a joke.

Haymon doing his job? Sure, maybe he is but he's killing Stevenson's career. I mean, the only proof you need to see that Haymon does awful at his job is Kovalev. Guy just headlined a show in Vegas no one really came to, but not only did those people pay he'll have a higher rating than Stevenson and be getting paid more in the process. As well as being P4P top 10... What exactly has Haymon done for Stevenson? Lol. Worse ratings and worse pay, Haymon doe.

.... Showtime was willing to pay double for Stevenson-Fonfara than what HBO was willing to pay for Stevenson-Fonfara.

To try and muddle the argument with your "Showtime and HBO are offering the same money" is hilarious and untrue.

[miamike]

I hope Kovalev takes the fight.

[MDPopescu]

Nah... He's just ducking the pimp -- the same way he did it a year ago.

[Scipio2009]

does anyone honestly believe that haymon and stevenson would agree if, for example, hryunov swooped in and won the right to stage the fight in moscow at 10pm local time? of course they wouldn't. this is all just posturing; neither pbc/gym nor hbo/main events will allow this fight to take place outside of their terms. just forget it. stevenson is soon to become a footnote anyway

Yes, for the simple fact that, for Hyuronov(sp) to get that right, he'd likely to have put up north of $8m as his bid, putting $4m in the hand of Stevenson and Kovalev, and leaving his own outfit to figure out how they'd find the revenue to cover their costs.

What ground would Haymon have to prevent Stevenson, approaching the age of 38, from making a payday of that much, owing no additional fights to Hyrunov(sp) and giving himself the opportunity to emerge as undisputed/unified light heavyweight champion, with the possibility of future massive paydays? What ground would Duva have to prevent Kovalev from making a payday that's nearly four times what he'd earned for his prior biggest fight?

Stevenson and his camp are looking for the largest payday possible; who in their right mind would duck out on the chance to unify all of the belts and make more money than they'd ever made, ever? GTFOH