Comments Thread For: Adonis Stevenson To Face Tommy Karpency on Sept. 11

[Scipio2009]

haymon has eleider alvarez fonfara rematch and artur bieterbiev so adonis could have fought them...but he also has tommy karpency!

.... Adonis Stevenson still has all those fights available to him; only difference is that taking the Karpency fight to stay busy puts his own business prospects in a great spot, while leaving Kovalev in an ever more **** position.

Stevenson fights in September, Fonfara becomes WBA mandatory challenger after winning in October (Fonfara is signed to Warriors Boxing, a direct Haymon-affiliated promoter), Kovalev is forced to dump the WBA belt and Adonis moves on to Stevenson-Fonfara II, in early 2016, in a WBC/WBA 175 unification fight.

Beterbiev is hunting the IBF 175 title (he either gets a fair offer to take the fight in Russia this November, or GYM/Haymon puts the screws to Team Kovalev, forcing Kovalev to vacate another title belt); Beterbiev picks up the IBF title and GYM continues to build up both Stevenson and Beterbiev into a massive Montreal fight.

You add that Bute and others (Pascal may see the Montreal money with the Stevenson fight and assume his role), and "Superman" is just fine.

You're a hater, so your job is simply to hate. fine

[Jubei]

Thank you, Al Haymon.

[Scipio2009]

does anyone really think stevenson will make more fighting karpency then if he took the 50/50 offer on hbo? oh wait he's still waiting for the offer that pbc will make even though they know kovalev can't fight on pbc now.

HBO spent $1m on Kovalev's last fight with Mohammeddi. Sergey Kovalev has been reported as receiving $750k for the fight (there's a seeming assumption on this site, and others, that Kovalev picked up a ton of side money from some mystery Russian mogul, but no actual source ever seems to pop up anywhere).

Adonis Stevenson is likely going to make $1.5m off of the PBC US broadcast alone (fight could also then be sold on PPV in Canada if the fight ends up on cable/premium TV (ESPN/Sp1keTV/Showtime are all outlets that allow for a parallel Canadian PPV). Figure the potential Canadian money in the mix and Stevenson could likely walk away with $4m-$5m once everything gets counted and split (assuming Canadian PPV).

What was HBO offering again? Oh yeah, they wanted Kovalev and Stevenson to split $3m. GTFOH

[sugarsmosley]

adonis is fighting a young hungry thirsty parched lion ranked in the top ten

its boxing so im loving it







- Fetta Jr

[Scipio2009]

Think it will be more competitive than expected

Which has basically been the case with near every PBC card so far, tbh.

Oh well, hate for Haymon has supposed boxing fans missing out on many 50/50 fights (action isn't always the most compelling, but that's life).

[The Big Dunn]

I originally posted I would pass on this fight because Karpency is a no hoper. I just checked the Transitional Boxing Rankings since they seem neutral and objective.

http://www.tbrb.org/all-rankings/

They rank Tommy as #10 LHW in the world. This was completely surprising to me.

I'm probably still going to pass because this isn't the fight I want. That said, I didn't realize the TBRB thought this highly of Karpency.

[BostonGuy]

I just watched Karpency fight "Sad" Chad and Fonfara. The problems I see is that he has no jab to speak of, especially when he fought the Pole, and he fights with his hands at his waist way to much. And what was up with that weird a$$ stoppage in the Fonfara fight?

If I recall, Karpency looked good early on in the fight and was getting to Dawson, but then let up and was content on coasting the rest of the fight. He can't show a lack of killer instinct against Stevenson if he has any chance of winning

[kiaba360]

I originally posted I would pass on this fight because Karpency is a no hoper. I just checked the Transitional Boxing Rankings since they seem neutral and objective.

http://www.tbrb.org/all-rankings/

They rank Tommy as #10 LHW in the world. This was completely surprising to me.

I'm probably still going to pass because this isn't the fight I want. That said, I didn't realize the TBRB thought this highly of Karpency.

His only notable win is a past-prime Dawson. LHW, like most divisions, is hard to rank because the best aren't consistently fighting each other.

Kov/Adonis/BHop/Pascal/Alvarez/Beterbiev/Chilemba/Fonfara/Brahmer....we've only gotten three match-ups out of this group. Mediocrity like Karpency will always be able to sneak into the top 10 when the best aren't fighting each other. Adonis should easily beat him.