Comments Thread For: Adonis Stevenson: Mayweather Tricked Us With The Officials!

[brettWall]

Duva got Kovalev a 50/50 purse bid split with the WBC champ & got the WBC to make another champ the mandatory for their champ. Then skipped out on the purse bid. And at the time Duva admitted Kovalev wasn't signed to HBO

How anybody but Duva gets the blame is beyond me

Duva wanted a long term relationship with HBO, isn't that obvious by now?

Adonis wanted it on Showtime. Another roadblock Adonis kept throwing.

Meaning, it wasn't only the purse bid, which may be related.

[PunchyPotorff]

Let's hear it, ya'll. Let's hear the explanations. Or excuses.
Jeff 'The Hornet' Horn beats Manny Pacquiao in Australia, people claim it was a "hometown robbery" despite none of the judges being Aussie.
Adonis Stevenson fights to a draw with Badou Jack in Canada. Stevenson says (basically) he got robbed because none of the judges were Canadian.
What say you?
Stevenson got robbed = Manny didn't get robbed.
Stevenson didn't get robbed = Manny got robbed.

This is nothing like the Pac/Horn fight. And the majority agree, THAT was a blatant robbery... likely orchestrated by crooked Arum. This is a whole different thing. Close fight, a draw was within margin either way.

[Motorcity Cobra]

Duva wanted a long term relationship with HBO, isn't that obvious by now?

Adonis wanted it on Showtime. Another roadblock Adonis kept throwing.

Meaning, it wasn't only the purse bid, which may be related.

There was no roadblock. Kovalev wasn't signed to a network. She got Kovalev a great split that most mandatory don't get. Even getting him in position as the mandatory when Kovalev was already a champ for another body was rare. She got everything she wanted. If she wanted Kovalev to get a long term HBO deal then you're admitting she wasn't serious about fighting Stevenson and only using that as a negotiating tactic with HBO

[WesternChamp]

Let's hear it, ya'll. Let's hear the explanations. Or excuses.

Jeff 'The Hornet' Horn beats Manny Pacquiao in Australia, people claim it was a "hometown robbery" despite none of the judges being Aussie.

Adonis Stevenson fights to a draw with Badou Jack in Canada. Stevenson says (basically) he got robbed because none of the judges were Canadian.

What say you?

Stevenson got robbed = Manny didn't get robbed.
Stevenson didn't get robbed = Manny got robbed.

judges dont have to be aussie to award a home town robbery!! watch the damm NBA! refs favors hometown teams even tho those refs aint from that town!

[BLACK KNOT]

lol chickenson is going to pimp slap gayweather jr hahahaha! easily the two biggest disgusting fleabags in boxing!

[brettWall]

There was no roadblock. Kovalev wasn't signed to a network. She got Kovalev a great split that most mandatory don't get. Even getting him in position as the mandatory when Kovalev was already a champ for another body was rare. She got everything she wanted. If she wanted Kovalev to get a long term HBO deal then you're admitting she wasn't serious about fighting Stevenson and only using that as a negotiating tactic with HBO

What's so wrong with having the fight on HBO, which to this day fighters are still proud becoming part of?

There was even a point where Adonis wanted to settle it by having it covered by both HBO and Showtime ala Manny vs Floyd. Don't you remember that? Isn't that ******, comparing the fight with fight of the decade?

[PunchyPotorff]

Probably Stevenson's weakest performance, and if he did in fact have an illness, it would explain a lot. He definitely needs to use it as a learning experience though. Have to fight 2-3 times a year, especially at his age. He could beat Jack if there's a rematch, but he has to be a fine-tuned 100% Superman to do it. Because if anything, Jack will be a little better for a second fight, even if Stevenson knows Jack a lot better from the first encounter. I've said it before though, these next 2-3 fights will tell us a bunch about how much longer Stevenson will be around. Does he have the grit to fight through the tougher fights? We'll soon see.

[Sosay]

Idgaf about the judges...
The low blows were ridiculous and greatly impacted the champ

The constant holding to avoid being knocked out is what annoyed me. They deserved a draw. Badou should've started earlier.

[Motorcity Cobra]

What's so wrong with having the fight on HBO, which to this day fighters are proud becoming part of?

There was even a point where Adonis wanted to settle it by having it covered by both HBO and Showtime ala Manny vs Floyd. Don't you remember that? Isn't that ******, comparing the fight with fight of the decade?

Nobody had a problem with the fight being on HBO. Stevenson contract with Showtime said he can fight on any network that won a purse bid. Kovalev wasn't signed to a network at the time. All they had to do was go to purse bid. Duva pulled out and deprived her fighter of his highest payday.

When Adonis said that was after Duva pulled out of the purse bid & Kovalev had a contract with HBO. You're trying to confuse the issue by bringing up two different situations.

The only time this fight had a realistic opportunity to be made is when it was going to purse bid. No network issues. Nothing holding it up

[animelive]

Ever heard of the term 'conflict of interest'? Stats don't lie. Conceding first 5-6 rounds mean you lose. Apparently now every fan and journalist has to have 10 world title before judging a fight. This cannot get any more ******. As I said earlier, that draw was a gift for Badou and if in a rematch his gameplan is the same, he still not win the fight. If Floyd was on the other side of the aisle, he'd be crying about robbery. Not sure why it is so tough for folks around here to judge a fight objectively and put their bias away. Peace.