Comments Thread For: Kovalev's Promoter: Stevenson is 40, We Want The 'Real' Fighters

[JRB123]

HBO was gonna pay less than 2 million for the fight. Why would anyone split to 2 million for a big fight like that? Duva can't afford to pay her fighters so she was ok with that but Stevenson knew the fight was worth more than that and Showtime was willing to pay Stevenson more money. HBO refused to match the offer. Kovalev has fought Pascal, Hopkins and Ward but has ended up taking peanuts for those fights from Duva and HBO. They could have lost the purse bid but they would have ended up making more money from Showtime and taking the belt from Stevenson.

^^^ that's all Kov/Duva had to do but nope they were into playing games...we saw their antics before the first Ward fight.

Now Kov says that Stevenson is too old. I feel that they wanted no parts of Adonis from the jump

[TheThirdEye]

Excuses and more excuses. Facts are facts. I am done with you, you have absolutely no sense it's like arguing with a child at this point.

Back in June 2013, Hopkins invited Stevenson to join Showtime, which was made in march 2014. The purpose of it was to unify 3 major belts (IBF, WBA and WBC). Showtime put millions on the table to get Stevenson, while he and Kovalev had no contract with HBO. So after HBO failed to match Showtime financial offer by 100k, Stevenson changed network.
But 10 days after B-Hop won his second title against Shumenov, on 04/29/2014 Mama Duva decided to sued Showtime, Golden Boy & Al Haymon etc etc, even if they had no business with this non sign verbal contract issue.
Kathy Duva created her lawsuit scam, to plot a settlement under table with Golden Boy for dropping this phony lawsuit in exchange of an unification bout between Hopkins and her protege Kovalev, and thus make Stevenson-Michel-Haymon stumble in the process.
Which is the reason why this Lawsuit got dropped the day after Hopkins and Kovalev reached an agreement to unify their titles. Golden Boy team weren't bright enough to realise this lawsuit was going nowhere, otherwise HBO would have backed up this phony complaint. But Golden Boy have taken the bait, due to the fact they also needed an excuse to reconnect with HBO.
That's why the Stevenson and B-hop fight never happen, Hopkins left...

And about Jean Pascal, he fueled a depreciation campaign against Stevenson using all forms of medias at its disposal to force Stevenson to give up to accept a equally split purse, when Pascal value was at 30% by the WBC.
But, while Stevenson was waiting for the WBC purse split 70-30, Pascal find a 60-40 deal with Kovalev and moved himself out of his WBC 1st mandatory position. Not to mention, to avoid losing the high value the WBC Diamond belt brought him when he left the Groupe Yvon Michel (GYM) promotion for Interbox promotion; He, Greg Leon and Kathy Duva build up a plan to convince the WBC of positioning the winner between him and Kovalev mandatory to Stevenson. Which is how he avoided to get stripped from that WBC Diamond belt.

Anyhow, for team Duva it was just a commercial prank used to enhance the market value of Kovalev with HBO, as you noticed Kov team rejected the 2 purse bid the WBC ordered following their previous agreement. The first rejection was made when Kovalev had no contract, and the second denial was done when Kovalev was under a new contract with HBO.

Is Pascal a top LHW, is 50 years old Hopkins a TOP LHW? Stevenson would've snach them both. For you, these 2 names on Kovalev resume, means the WBC Champ Stevenson would need to make his way up to the winner of Kovalev-Ward; How, by chasing duckers?
You can say what you truly think, like, "I hate Stevenson or I love Kovalev so much, I hope Stevenson never get the chance to fight Kovalev, because I really have the honest feeling he'll beat the crap out of the Russian".
But saying stup*d stuff like (excuses and more excuses), just prove how aware you are about the danger Stevenson represent for your favorite loser. Look, Ward ducked his own Undisputed matchup by trying the fight Frank Buglioni, TV says no, ROC says hell no, and he retired:
What does that mean?

[DinoCop]

I've been following boxing live for some 3 years, before that I used to go with old fight footage, and I'm yet to see Adonis Stevenson fight anyone. I haven't even seen any topics about his fights here. Is he really active or the best at taking titles hostages.

[Boxing lives]

Whatever remnants of Kovalev are left would be destroyed by Stevenson. Ward made him quit, Stevenson would put him to sleep at this point. Kovalev doesn't want it. He fought Ward because he was considered a light hitter. That light hitter savaged him and broke him to submission.

[robbyheartbaby]

Everyone knows piece of s*** Stevenson never wanted that work. He had too many fights against Tommy Karpency to make while Kovalev was at least fighting the best. Stevenson will be out of the picture altogether but he will always be remembered for ducking Kovalev, *quack quack quack quack*. Plenty happening now in the division.

[Lemonhead_Jeff]

Likewise, Stevenson's promoter could say "Kovalev has lost his last two fights. We want deserving opponents." Duva claims to have "literally went through everything" in trying to negotiate a fight against Stevenson, but she always conveniently forgets to mention refusing to participate in the first purse-bid that was ordered. No matter her excuse for refusing to participate, she can't turn around and blame Team Stevenson while trying to claim she's done everything that she possibly could have.

[jonnyc420]

Back in June 2013, Hopkins invited Stevenson to join Showtime, which was made in march 2014. The purpose of it was to unify 3 major belts (IBF, WBA and WBC). Showtime put millions on the table to get Stevenson, while he and Kovalev had no contract with HBO. So after HBO failed to match Showtime financial offer by 100k, Stevenson changed network.
But 10 days after B-Hop won his second title against Shumenov, on 04/29/2014 Mama Duva decided to sued Showtime, Golden Boy & Al Haymon etc etc, even if they had no business with this non sign verbal contract issue.
Kathy Duva created her lawsuit scam, to plot a settlement under table with Golden Boy for dropping this phony lawsuit in exchange of an unification bout between Hopkins and her protege Kovalev, and thus make Stevenson-Michel-Haymon stumble in the process.
Which is the reason why this Lawsuit got dropped the day after Hopkins and Kovalev reached an agreement to unify their titles. Golden Boy team weren't bright enough to realise this lawsuit was going nowhere, otherwise HBO would have backed up this phony complaint. But Golden Boy have taken the bait, due to the fact they also needed an excuse to reconnect with HBO.
That's why the Stevenson and B-hop fight never happen, Hopkins left...

And about Jean Pascal, he fueled a depreciation campaign against Stevenson using all forms of medias at its disposal to force Stevenson to give up to accept a equally split purse, when Pascal value was at 30% by the WBC.
But, while Stevenson was waiting for the WBC purse split 70-30, Pascal find a 60-40 deal with Kovalev and moved himself out of his WBC 1st mandatory position. Not to mention, to avoid losing the high value the WBC Diamond belt brought him when he left the Groupe Yvon Michel (GYM) promotion for Interbox promotion; He, Greg Leon and Kathy Duva build up a plan to convince the WBC of positioning the winner between him and Kovalev mandatory to Stevenson. Which is how he avoided to get stripped from that WBC Diamond belt.

Anyhow, for team Duva it was just a commercial prank used to enhance the market value of Kovalev with HBO, as you noticed Kov team rejected the 2 purse bid the WBC ordered following their previous agreement. The first rejection was made when Kovalev had no contract, and the second denial was done when Kovalev was under a new contract with HBO.

Is Pascal a top LHW, is 50 years old Hopkins a TOP LHW? Stevenson would've snach them both. For you, these 2 names on Kovalev resume, means the WBC Champ Stevenson would need to make his way up to the winner of Kovalev-Ward; How, by chasing duckers?
You can say what you truly think, like, "I hate Stevenson or I love Kovalev so much, I hope Stevenson never get the chance to fight Kovalev, because I really have the honest feeling he'll beat the crap out of the Russian".
But saying stup*d stuff like (excuses and more excuses), just prove how aware you are about the danger Stevenson represent for your favorite loser. Look, Ward ducked his own Undisputed matchup by trying the fight Frank Buglioni, TV says no, ROC says hell no, and he retired:
What does that mean?

Didnt even bother reading this crap. All excuses for Supercoward. Fact is he had his chance he blew it and faded to nothing more than a sideshow in Canada. Hard to say Kovalev ducked him when he fought Hopkins, Pascal and Ward. Meanwhile Superwoman fought Fonfara and a bunch of nobodies. We know who ducked.

[brettWall]

Kovalev vs Stevenson is now far from happening. Not even miles, probably light years. If Adonis didn't have enough motivation for a unification fight, what's more with a title-less Kovalev? The guy is a huge clown in boxing.

[TheThirdEye]

The Biggest &*‡€# That We’ve Seen Thus Far

“As far as Stevenson, if I had a nickel for every time he said he wants the fight, we literally went through everything and then he says [manager] Al [Haymon] said he didn’t want to do it."

Liar=Duva

What a liar, that ♀i♀♀♀; she is subtle to modify details to her own advantage. When did Haymon said he didn't want it, or when Stevenson said Al Haymon didn't want it.
I mean, she has no husband, and I believe no one wants to hit that thing.
She's like angry, angry about Al Haymon rejecting her, when she was about to give head. He was like; Duva! clean your teeth first...

[bballchump11]

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