Comments Thread For: Stevenson Open To Facing Kovalev Now or Kovalev-Ward Winner

[R.I.P Chico]

Go away Duck. We all know the truth. You wouldnt even mention Kovalev's name; trying to worm your way out with Bute & Froch when Kellerman asked years ago. Krusher Kovalev is the man #Kovalev/Ward2017 👊

[Travycat]

lol sure he is.

[Outwest Exp 355]

So you're saying he chose Kov so he'd get dropped and shut out but not Koed? Or just poor risk assessment?

Stylistically Hop did the math. Deal with Stevonsons speed and power or try and beat Kovalev in a technical fight.

[rudy]

What Stevenson's saying about 50/50 and all that in this article isn't accurate.

Main Events and GYM agreed on everything earlier this year, the only stumbling block was the broadcaster. Stevenson wouldn't fight on HBO and that was that.

Stevenson is a chump, the fight was all but agreed he jumped ship to Haymon, now i dont' know when he is fighting and i am sure nobody really cares

[Snoop Frog]

Stevenson better get after it. He's 38 and looks like a heavyweight.

[Scipio2009]

What Stevenson's saying about 50/50 and all that in this article isn't accurate.

Main Events and GYM agreed on everything earlier this year, the only stumbling block was the broadcaster. Stevenson wouldn't fight on HBO and that was that.

Main Events came to the table with projections for the fight that were utterly unrealistic; the only way that Michel seemed to think that they could come close to getting to the amount of money that Duva was hanging the deal on, in his opinion, was if both networks pushed the fight (making up the fantasy that Duva secretly secured a venue that would bring more money to the pot than staging the fight in Montreal likely didn't sit too well either).

To here Michel tell it, Duva was talking up some massive revenue fight, yet was only willing to commit $2m-$3m, never made much sense.

The fix to this whole thing, even then, was rather simple: guarantee Adonis Stevenson/GYM ~$5m, with their upside on the event kicking in when the net revenues get over $10m.

If the fight on their terms was truly as big as they tried to make it out to be (venue outside of Montreal, only HBO carry the PPV, etc), they would've been fine with such terms.

[Scipio2009]

I wonder how much Showtime is willing to pay Stevenson for another **** fight?

Dude looks like he put on a lot of weight.

As far as I know, Stevenson drives a lot of his take from the revenues in Quebec, so I don't doubt that Stevenson's Showtime take isn't all that much off from what other featured fighters on Showtime end up with.

Beyond that, Stevenson's fight date is basically three months away. The weight's fine.

[Scipio2009]

If Kovalev-Ward happens this year, the winner probably won't be settling for any 50/50 split with Stevenson.

Will come down to the type of business that Kovalev-Ward does, tbh; Sergey Kovalev went to Montreal and split $6m with Jean Pascal. That Montreal money left enough of an impression that Kovalev went back to Montreal and still had a basically even split with Pascal for the rematch, of a fight that he loss by stoppage.

Golovkin-Lemieux, on HBOPPV, had the two fighters splitting ~$4m.

I have no hope for Kovalev(he's letting Kathy Duva mess his business up, imo); if Ward wins the fight, GYM and RocNation will sit down, negotiate the deal points that would maximize the potential revenues (Bell Centre vs Barclays Center/MGM Resorts, HBOPPV vs SHOPPV, International TV rights, sponsors, etc).

The deal points naturally fall about 50/50 anyway

[Scipio2009]

Kovalev difficult?? LMAO

Stevenson managed to fail making fights with pascal, Hopkins, and Kovalev. While Kovalev fought pascal twice, Hopkins, and is signed to fight Ward. Only a fool would think Kovalev is the one avoiding it..

Hopkins wanted 75% of the money on the fight (Team Kovalev gladly gave him 75% of the money), Pascal wanted a 50/50 split on a mandatory defense (Team Kovalev was more than happy to give him 45% of the pot), and Team Kovalev refused to participate in the purse bid process that they initiated.

Get over yourself.

[D'Rek501]

He keeps repeating this 50/50 thing when it's been 50/50 from the very beginning. Was there any time where Kovalev wanted a bigger purse? Don't know what this guy is saying. It's the easiest fight you can make if you think about it. Everything is split down the middle.

Everything except for the network! It's so