Comments Thread For: David Lemieux vs. Curtis Stevens Set For March 11, HBO

[Eastcoast]

The winner of this should be mandatory to the winner of Saunders/Khurtsidze.

[HI-TECH Boxing]

Not every fight has a point! Not every fight is momentous or historic. Sometimes a fight is just a fight! Just sit back and enjoy both of these guys trying to blast each other into oblivion.

Always gotta be one spoilsport.

It's not like HBO's calendar is loaded for the year, and it's a better match-up than Cotto–Kirkland... which HBO also wasted money on.

no need to see high skilled boxers every time, if you consider yourself a boxing fan then you should like both, high technique matchs and wars

Not only is this a decent match-up to separate the contender from the gate keeper, but it's obviously aimed at drumming up casuals' interest in the MW PPV the following weekend. The GGG hype will be on full display.

the point is to entertain fans. Why does there need to be anything more then that? If fans love it then everybody wins. A 50/50 fight between 2 contenders who want brawl and take your head off. The winner likely gets another title shot.

Seriously?? WAYYYYY worse fights have been made on hbo , this is the wrong one to complain about.

HBO has a limited budget and limited air time for Boxing and they are wasting it on this crap? That's what's wrong with it.
Should I apologize that I can't get excited to watch Curtis freaking Stevens and Lemieux. And I don't give a crap if one of these guys gets a title shot.
I don't care for a GGG-Lemieux 2 or a GGG-Stevens 2. People were complaining about that first GGG-Lemieux fight and now people want to see a rematch? That doesn't make sense.
HBO could make some entertaining fights while spending their money wisely.
And no I'm just complaining about this fight. I've also complained about some of the fights they made in 2016. You would hope that HBO would learn from previous years, but apparently they don't.

Showtime is actually trying to put on meaningful fights and several of those fights end up being entertaining. I can't believe there is a lot of people actually OK with this.

So, what exactly is the point of this fight? Are people really going to want either of these guys to fight GGG again? Are Lemieux or Stevens the future of the sport or even just the Middleweight division? Do they really need these two to hype up that GGG-Jacobs fight? Maybe it will help a little but the people that will buy the fight will buy it; the people that don't want to buy will not buy it. I seriously doubt Lemieux-Stevens will change many minds.
And there is no guarantee this ends up being a war. There are fights which people predict will be a war and guess what? They don't end up being a war. There other fights people think will be OK or boring and they end up being great.
I wouldn't have a problem if HBO had more money to go around, but they don't.

[Santa_]

[Santa_]

LeMule by vicious KO is my prediction!

This fight is beyond good. Can't wait!

[AddiX]

This will be a damn entertaining fight.

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There's no way it will be a fight of the year type fight because the first guy who lands the hardest may mean it is over fast. It can be a KO of the year type fight. Lem may try to box more to give himself a better chance which means a good but not great fight.

We'll said and I have to agree. A real boxing purists analogy. This has k.o. of the year potential but not so much foty. Their styles may cancel each other out and only allow for a one sided k.o. as opposed to a back and forth tilt.

[PittyPat]

I don't care for a GGG-Lemieux 2 or a GGG-Stevens 2. People were complaining about that first GGG-Lemieux fight and now people want to see a rematch?

Not me. I'm just enterained by the thought of this fight by itself – this one time I'm not concerned about the long-term implications of HBO and their budget. And I don't care what Lemieux and Stevens do afterwards, but if they both treat it like a potential world title shot and put in the effort, then there's no reason they won't produce a good fight.

[Nay_Sayer]

HBO is really wasting money on this fight?
I know there will be people that love it, but it's pointless IMO.

^This.

There is absolutely no point to this fight whatsoever. Maybe they're just showcasing Bumlovkin KO victims as means to drum up interest in the Bumlovkin Jacobs PPV happening one week later...

[Superbee]

^This.

There is absolutely no point to this fight whatsoever. Maybe they're just showcasing Bumlovkin KO victims as means to drum up interest in the Bumlovkin Jacobs PPV happening one week later...

Yeah... Since they lost to GGG they should retire and never fight again, right ? ... SMH

This is a good action fight on paper ... The Sport is winning ...

[BennyBlanco]

Not a great fight and definitely not a Fight of the Year candidate. It's not even worthy of being a main event.

Curtis Stevens has fought exactly twice in the last two years. He is a B-level fighter, at best, and he's lost every single step-up fight he's had (Dirrell, Golovkin, N'Dam) and some that weren't even step-ups (TKO'ed by 19-15 Marcos Primera, lost to Jesse Brinkley). With only 21 stoppages in 34 fights, he poses little threat to Lemieux.

This is a stay-busy fight for Lemieux to keep him alive for Canelo. Even Jim Lampley tweeted that he's disappointed.