Originally posted by revelated
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Stevenson was on record - multiple times - saying he would fight Kovalev "...if the money is right". That's a duck bro.
He already knew HBO wasn't going to pay top dollar on him because that's not how HBO works.
Fast forward to 2016. HBO is now on one side of the table, Showtime on another side of the table, with Main Events on the other side not able to pay the money the purse bid would swell to, thus forcing Kov to fight on Showtime, which is a violation of his HBO contract.
HBO had matching rights on one last fight, but Kovalev didn't want to risk losing to Stevenson, so instead he signed another HBO deal.
In the scenario you presented, where Showtime offered more than HBO, forcing Kovalev to fight on Showtime, that would NOT have been a violation of his HBO contract as the last fight of his deal with Pascal, he was a TV free agent, and he was only stuck with HBO if HBO matched the offer. So the scenario you're presenting is impossible because if HBO doesn't match the offer, it's not a violation.
You've allowed HBO & Main Events to distort your view of this situation because Haymon doesn't speak. So his adversaries know they can lie as much as they want and nobody will call them out on it.
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