Comments Thread For: Promoter: Now That Ward Retired, Adonis Stevenson is #1 at 175

[RussB23]

Does anyone even care that stevenson is champion?

[Baltimore]

You wanna be #1?

Then fight Kov

[jonnyc420]

Does anyone even care that stevenson is champion?

Nope, he is like Gary Russel Jr. Fed so many soft touches nobody even cares about these so-called "champions" anymore. He will be gone soon anyway he's 40 and just interested in cashing out with easy fights like rematching Fonfara.

[TexasCowBoy]

Holy guacamole!

Look at all the haters in this thread!

Ward did Supermans job and beat THEE MAN at 175!

Stevenson made Emmanuel Steward roll in his grave by somehow making the name and meaning of a champion as worthless and without relevance!

How he still wears Kronk gym colors is a disgrace and I'm surprised Tommy Hearns hasn't called him out on his bs!

How does Kovalev, Ward, Barrera and even Badou Jack challenge themselves and test their might against the best but not YOU!

Yvonne Michelle is a hoe, scared to put Beterbiev in with Stevenson and is half stepping with a pillow punching Eleider Alvarez!

Stevenson and Billy Joe Saunders are the biggest jokes in BOXING! Everyone is laughing at you, not with you!

Great Post and my I add that this comment by Yvonne saying that "Chickenson is 1 " is actually the sound of a great sigh of relief that is being echoed by Chickensons promoter because they are so happy and relieved that Ward retired...

[techliam]

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 (he is not #1), 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?

Ward moved up to 175Lbs, after being called by Kovalev, to bypass the Stevenson threat. Ward started to joke about Stevenson, like: "He will have to ask Al to come out & play".
Stevenson congratulate & Challenge Ward after his victory over Kovalev, but Ward says: "why now, I'm not even thinking about this guy right now". In a UK conference, Ward says: "no disrespect to Stevenson, but he is a step back", also says he would rather fight in a big UK stadium, and maybe meet guys like "Cleverly". In the meantime, Ward says between him and Stevenson it has to make sense.
After Ward second victory over Kov, Stevenson congratulate Ward again and says lets fight for the Undisputed, but Ward repeated it has to make sense.
After Badou Jack easy victory over Cleverly, Stevenson congratulate Jack and challenge him to fight before the Undisputed matchup, saying Ward is wasting time beating around the bushes, Ward is acting like a princess.
Ward sounds off til the Crawford Undisputed fight. After the insistence of a reporter, Ward says he fought Kov twice while Stevenson didn't fight him once, just seconds after feinting his own interest to become Undisputed too.
4 weeks ago, Ward attempted to settle a fight with an Eddie Hearn guy "Frank Buglioni" in UK, which was turned down by Buglioni & HBO.
ROC choice was Stevenson next, HBO choice was Stevenson or challenging heavier opponents. But Ward plan was well calculated, Bellew & Joshua belongs to Eddie Hearn, therefore it was fairly easy for Ward to show some appearance of negotiations while maintaining his lie of going up in weight.
Ward was only preparing to milk his titles with the lesser opponents Hearn has in his stable, from the LHW division.
But when ROC & HBO rejected the softer "Buglioni" choice, Ward didn't want to take the risk of fighting Stevenson even if the reward was to become Undisputed; Ward retired instead.

Most of this post is irrelevant to me. It's a shame you wasted so much time, provided this wasn't copied and pasted.

Stevenson has not been recognised as the no.1 at 175 since he beat Dawson. By anyone. Right now. The division is up in the air

[bluemax]

Phoney

Yeah! Stevenson is number one alright! Number one at avoiding fighting any credible fighters and number one at talking the talk then hiding when talks got serious, Whose he fighting next? Some way past his prime named fighter or some small guy moving up? Stevenson denied himself any chance at being deemed credible by avoiding any real challenge to his reign, He's a phoney

[elcashanilla]

You couldn't shut a toilet lid with your intellect and even less with your Boxing knowledge. I stop reading once I see the first misspelling. Took you 4 words. You ****** ass.

like I said dont reply to me unless you know boxing ok you idiot GTFOH

[Lou Cipher]

like I said dont reply to me unless you know boxing ok you idiot GTFOH

Shut your **** sucker. How dare you address Lou Cipher with your inferior intellect and abysmal Boxing "knowledge." DIE DIE DIE

[elcashanilla]

Shut your **** sucker. How dare you address Lou Cipher with your inferior intellect and abysmal Boxing "knowledge." DIE DIE DIE

Im the **** Sucker and you're the one here defending him hahahahahah MORON

[iNixus]

im not a fan of stevenson or Kovalev but please explain me how kovalev will fight Stevenson when he cant fight inside? Kovalev reach is 72.5 inches while stevenson is 77 inches. thats a huge difference when you dont fight inside.