Adonis Stevenson "Andre Ward Playing Games, He'll Return But Won't Fight Me!"

[rickJen]

but kovalev demanded 50/50 and the wbc and stevenson said yes.

then kovalev refused to fight.

how is that not a duck? kovalev requests to be mandatory. wbc says yes. kovalev requests 50/50. wbc says yes. wbc orders the fight. kovalev vacates and refuses to fight.

Except you guys keep omitting the one when Kov was all fired up ready to KTFO Adonis, but all of a sudden, Stevenson severed ties with HBO and hid under uncle Haymon's skirt.
What the hell happened?

[N/A]

Except you guys keep omitting the one when Kov was all fired up ready to KTFO Adonis, but all of a sudden, Stevenson severed ties with HBO and hid under uncle Haymon's skirt.
What the hell happened?

thats not what happened. the fight on the table from hbo was fonfara. stevenson was a restricted free agent and presented hbo with the best offer he'd received for the fonfara fight. hbo refused to match. had nothing to do with kovalev.

[Gillie]

He's fighting Jack next. Although it's not a super fight, it's a great match up and we finally see Stevenson in a competitive fight which we haven't in years.

True! I haven't seen much press on it but you are right, Jack is a legitimate guy and a win over him cannot be overlooked. I haven't even read much in Montreal about the fight although the French papers are probably covering it.

[TheThirdEye]

Bernard Hopkins ducked Adonis Stevenson

When Adonis hid under Haymon's skirt,
Espinoza chimed in and said the Haitian made the right move saying Hopkins is the bigger fight for Adonis.
Saying in effect, forget fighting Kovalev. Give it up doe, it's not important.
Guess what doe. Hopkins vs Stevenson never happened.
That's even during the time Hopkins was all praised for Showtime and appreciated GBP being associated with it.
In fact, the strangest thing happened:
Hopkins fought Kovalev on HBO!! And not in his home network SHO at that time!
Haha... the Stevenson quacking produced a lot of clowns as a result.
It's comical. I wonder what Espinoza is saying now about Quackenson.
Showtime lost the Adonis vs Hopkins fight!

Sun Aug 10, 2014

SHO's Espinoza on Hopkins: No Childish Ban Like HBO Did

Stephen Espinoza, head of Showtime Sports, is not taking Bernard Hopkins' decision personally. Espinoza's network was trying to finalize a light heavyweight unification between Hopkins and Adonis Stevenson for a date in October or November - but then Hopkins unexpectedly walked across the street to rival network HBO and finalized a unification against Sergey Kovalev for November.
"It did surprise me simply because he took less money to fight Kovalev. At this stage of his career, Bernard has been very clear that he wants to maximize revenues. That's the way it surprised me. But from a boxing perspective it's part of the business. he wanted to take on Kovalev and I don't fault him for that. If he wants the Kovalev fight, then at this stage of his career he has a handful of fights left, if that, and if he wants to prioritize that fight I'm not going to hold it against him,"
Espinoza told BoxingScene.com.