For a 3rd attempt, who's really ducking this WBC purse bid, HBO Kovalev or Kathy Duva

[TheThirdEye]

Duva states, I’ve been sending notes to WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman and I told him, ‘Listen, we will fight Stevenson in June. I will make a deal with Yvon right now." The condition being Sergey wins in January, we’ll fight Stevenson in the spring and we can do it on pay-per-view with HBO. My only problem: We both agreed that 50/50’s fair and I told him, if necessary, we’ll go to Canada and that the only issue here is that who distributes it. “Sergey has a multi-fight deal with HBO. He cannot fight anywhere else.”

Michel responded, “We understand they have a contract with HBO, Adonis has fought for Showtime and [Premier Boxing Champions] platforms and, for the moment, we don’t feel it’s fair for the network that has supported Adonis since the last four, five fights to not be in the race, [at all], for the possibility of doing the biggest fight in that division.

Duva responded, “Big fights so rarely get made with purse bid and there’s a reason why: They’re far too big and complicated.” But perhaps this is out of Stevenson’s hands. Maybe he really has no say in this. For the time being, the PBC universe simply doesn’t intersect with the rest of the boxing cosmos.
Again, said Duva, “if Kovalev fights Ward at the end of next year, which is starting to look like it’s very possible, who’s going to remember Adonis Stevenson after that? Who’s gonna care? What are they gonna say? Sergey’s ducking Stevenson by fighting Andre Ward?
If the reporters and the people who follow this stuff on Twitter are going to be dumb enough to buy this, let them.

by Steve Kim | Oct 20, 2015

[SterlingStained]

kovalev has the leverage. he is a natural born fighter. he could fight into his 40s knocking guys out.

stevenson's a pimp. he could have never outfought santino........



Wardzini. he's the true enemy.

[i'm a fun haver]

Duva states, I’ve been sending notes to WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman and I told him, ‘Listen, we will fight Stevenson in June. I will make a deal with Yvon right now." The condition being Sergey wins in January, we’ll fight Stevenson in the spring and we can do it on pay-per-view with HBO. My only problem: We both agreed that 50/50’s fair and I told him, if necessary, we’ll go to Canada and that the only issue here is that who distributes it. “Sergey has a multi-fight deal with HBO. He cannot fight anywhere else.”

Michel responded, “We understand they have a contract with HBO, Adonis has fought for Showtime and [Premier Boxing Champions] platforms and, for the moment, we don’t feel it’s fair for the network that has supported Adonis since the last four, five fights to not be in the race, [at all], for the possibility of doing the biggest fight in that division.

Duva responded, “Big fights so rarely get made with purse bid and there’s a reason why: They’re far too big and complicated.” But perhaps this is out of Stevenson’s hands. Maybe he really has no say in this. For the time being, the PBC universe simply doesn’t intersect with the rest of the boxing cosmos.
Again, said Duva, “if Kovalev fights Ward at the end of next year, which is starting to look like it’s very possible, who’s going to remember Adonis Stevenson after that? Who’s gonna care? What are they gonna say? Sergey’s ducking Stevenson by fighting Andre Ward?
If the reporters and the people who follow this stuff on Twitter are going to be dumb enough to buy this, let them.

by Steve Kim | Oct 20, 2015

Time to see if PBC fighters can just fight on any network like all the brand new Lara fans claim.
Top Rank fighter Denis Shafikov is fighting Rances Barthelemy on the Jacobs vs Quillin card in December.
So who isn't allowed to fight where and why? lol

[daggum]

Time to see if PBC fighters can just fight on any network like all the brand new Lara fans claim.
Top Rank fighter Denis Shafikov is fighting Rances Barthelemy on the Jacobs vs Quillin card in December.
So who isn't allowed to fight where and why? lol

haymon is just a manager. he's going to do what's right for his clients. if someone offers his client 1.4 million to fight on hbo he's going to jump at that chance. he's not going to turn it down and then have him fight for 500k.....oh wait peter quillin. that's some great managing al! "i got you negative 900 thousand dollars now go out there and say how great i am puppet i mean peter."

[Calculating...]

TheThirdEye, so how much is Adonis paying you?

[HeroBando]

As ducking goes, of course Aduckis Chickenson wins. That's his thing

[i'm a fun haver]

haymon is just a manager. he's going to do what's right for his clients. if someone offers his client 1.4 million to fight on hbo he's going to jump at that chance. he's not going to turn it down and then have him fight for 500k.....oh wait peter quillin. that's some great managing al! "i got you negative 900 thousand dollars now go out there and say how great i am puppet i mean peter."

Gotta admit, you almost had me going when I read the first few lines of that post lol.
Bravo

[Bigg Rigg]

Adonis ran to Haymon and Showtime first! HBO was setting this fight up before that. We all know this.

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kovalev-ward is an interesting clash of styles

both of them just humiliate stevenson

are we forgetting his best win is chad dawson and there aint much to mention after that?

[Superbee]

It's a Network war, nothing to do with the individuals... Don't get blinded by corporate statement dictated to Duva, who is basically HBO secretary and has absolutely no power in there ...

HBO wants Haymon's @ss and the opposite is also true... Nothing will happen until both guys agree to meet secretly in a backstreet...

Sucks, really ...

The fight should have happened this year when all of the Kovalev clan's demands were met.. Yet it didn't ... So 1 - 0 for HBO in the avoiding specialty ...