Comments Thread For: Stevenson vs. Gvozdyk: Michel Reacts To Purse Bid Controversy

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Yvon Michel, promoter for WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson, has reacted to the circulating stories regarding claims of "collusion" in the recent purse bid for the mandatory defense against undefeated Ukrainian Oleksandr Gvozdyk.
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[minemax]

He's lying, but who cares... At least the fight will happen, I hope.

[Boxing Logic]

He's lying, but who cares... At least the fight will happen, I hope.

I hope it happens too, but also apprehensive. It's obvious that Haymon, Michel, and the WBC saw Gvozdyk get hurt badly before and so out of all the top contenders who they knew Stevenson would have to fight one of eventually, they set this up so it would be Gvozdyk and never Beterbiev, Bivol, Kovalev, etc. So I would favor Gvozdyk regardless but they set it up in a way where there is still a decent chance of Stevenson winning and continuing on his fraudulent title run for years to come.

[Butch.McRae]

"In the minutes after the announcement of the result, Top Rank's Bob Arum and Carl Moretti were furious. The of them wanted to appeal in order to restart the bidding process. A few hours later, Moretti and Arum had changed their tone."

Why did they change their tone?

[Boxing Logic]

"In the minutes after the announcement of the result, Top Rank's Bob Arum and Carl Moretti were furious. The of them wanted to appeal in order to restart the bidding process. A few hours later, Moretti and Arum had changed their tone."

Why did they change their tone?

I would also like to know this...

[Scipio2009]

"In the minutes after the announcement of the result, Top Rank's Bob Arum and Carl Moretti were furious. The of them wanted to appeal in order to restart the bidding process. A few hours later, Moretti and Arum had changed their tone."

Why did they change their tone?

If I had to guess, I'd imagine it had something to do with the shenanigans that Arum is currently doing with the WBC's 140lb belt. Not to be vindictive but Jose Ramirez was supposed to immediately fight Regis Prograis, and it wouldn't be outside of the WBC's rules to force the Prograis fight next on a 50/50 mandated split.

DiBella Entertainment backs Prograis (who has a good profile on ShoBox; whether that gets elevated to Showtime Championship Boxing is another question), but the real concern is that DAZN has put up money to host the tournament, and any promoter that the group behind WBSS puts forward (likely Schaefer's Ringstar Sports) will likely have more money backing them than Arum is willing to pay.

Arum makes a stink of it (he still was the low bid anyway) and he likely risks losing a world champion.

[ThatDude44]

These writers need to do some proof reading.

[Ajvar]

He stretched his neck from 1.85 to 2.1 because it's better to pay extra 250k instead of paying whole 3.1Mil which would be the winning bid in case Arum came as a 2nd bidder.

[MDPopescu]

... "However, if Michel is awarded the rights to the fight, Arum said his side is still willing to do the bout." (according to Dan Rafael)...

[daggum]

of course they colluded. shell promoters backed by big money to provide insurance that their guy will control the fight. withdrawing after a minute proves that. what could change in one minute? its laughable and brazen collusion but technically its not illegal. you shouldn't be allowed to withdraw a purse bid