Comments Thread For: Duva on Sullivan Barrera: HBO Return, Possible Title Shot in Store

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Sullivan Barrera probably won't land a light heavyweight title shot in his next fight. That doesn't mean the hard-hitting contender from Cuba won't benefit from his impressive knockout against Vyacheslav Shabranskyy on Friday night in Indio, California. Coming off a unanimous-decision defeat to IBF/WBA/WBO light heavyweight champion Andre Ward that HBO broadcast March 26 from Oakland, California, Barrera bounced back by dropping Ukraine's Shabranskyy three times on his way winning by seventh-round knockout.
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[bronx7]

Stop Kathy he lost easy to a rusty ward. He is not on wards or kovalevs level nor Stevensons just because you promote him don't be dellesional

[kiaba360]

Barrera vs. Smith is one of the more logical match-ups.

[Edward90]

If (and I do mean "if") Kov beat Ward in the rematch, then I would be all for Kov vs Barrera. Both are pretty big LHWs and would be a good match. I think Kov would KO him though. The styles would result in someone getting KO'd.

With that being said, I like that Duva will try to put him against other contenders. There are a lot of fighters at LHW that he could go up against to work his way up to the top. I completely agree with the this concept of fighting contenders if the champions won't take on the challenges as seen in many other divisions. Unifications should be a regular occurrence, but these guys don't want to fight each other. 147 is taking forever to make that happen. The number of belts aren't going to go back to 1 anytime soon, but you would think these guys would have more of a chip on their shoulder and go after other titleholders in their division.

[Afi23]

Yeah how about setting up Barrera with Joe Smith or try go get a "name" on his resume such as Pascal. Though, I think Pascal still beats him at this point.

[Superbee]

I see at least 5 or 6 fighters in front of him for a title shot ... Duva is so delusional it's not even funny... Always been though so no surprise... She believes her own fictional wet dreams and spreads them around...

[filup79]

Barrera could fight any of the Haymon HWs, however, its Duva who only expects her fighters to fight on HBO. She rather beg HBO for a date for her fighters and have them make little money then maximize their purse somewhere else. Kovalev got 2 mil for Ward, got peanuts to fight Hopkins, took less to fight Pascal and expected Stevenson to fight Kovalev and split the 3-4 mil HBO was going to pay for the fight. Kovalev would have got paid more if Duva let him fight Stevenson anywhere else other than HBO. Kovalev-Stevenson would have been huge in Quebec and both fighters would have made more money than what HBO was offering.