Comments Thread For: Stevenson, With Haymon at Side, Wants Bank For Kovalev

[kombayn]

There's no question he's deluded. Regardless. He just said that behind Floyd, he's the #2 draw in Haymon's stable.

lol wut

I honestly don't think that it's that far-fetched. In Al Haymon's stable who can really generate a name like Adonis Stevenson? He's a KO artist, HUGE in Canada and the lineal Light Heavyweight champion of the world. If he can keep this up, then his name only gets bigger. I think Adonis wants the Hopkins fight badly, I think Adonis will side-step Kovalev if his path of destruction continues.

If this "cold war" thing is still going on, Arreola hasn't fought on HBO since the HBO announced no more Golden Boy fighters and in essence Al Haymon fighters. Edwin Rodriguez signed with Haymon during Ward negotiations, he hasn't fought since that fight. Now Stevenson supposedly inked a 3-fight deal which was probably with the Bellew fight.

I won't be surprised after Fonfara if Stevenson decides to fight Pascal instead of Kovalev because of "money". To me, it doesn't mean Stevenson is scared to fight Kovalev but he's got to think about how much money he can make because he hit it big in the sport at the end of his career. I don't for-see a Kovalev fight in the near future.

Both men still have options out there to fight and Stevenson can make some big money in a Hopkins fight at the Barclays Center. So, I won't be surprised if Adonis Stevenson does duck Sergey Kovalev for the time being because it makes boxing sense from the business side.

If Steveson gets KO'd by Kovalev, then he loses future earnings, he wins that fight, it expands his profile but so does beating a Benard Hopkins and it's an easier fight. Personally, I think Stevenson would beat Kovalev but right now in Adonis' mind, the risk is far greater than the reward at this moment.

[Citizen Koba]

I honestly don't think that it's that far-fetched. In Al Haymon's stable who can really generate a name like Adonis Stevenson? He's a KO artist, HUGE in Canada and the lineal Light Heavyweight champion of the world. If he can keep this up, then his name only gets bigger. I think Adonis wants the Hopkins fight badly, I think Adonis will side-step Kovalev if his path of destruction continues.

If this "cold war" thing is still going on, Arreola hasn't fought on HBO since the HBO announced no more Golden Boy fighters and in essence Al Haymon fighters. Edwin Rodriguez signed with Haymon during Ward negotiations, he hasn't fought since that fight. Now Stevenson supposedly inked a 3-fight deal which was probably with the Bellew fight.

I won't be surprised after Fonfara if Stevenson decides to fight Pascal instead of Kovalev because of "money". To me, it doesn't mean Stevenson is scared to fight Kovalev but he's got to think about how much money he can make because he hit it big in the sport at the end of his career. I don't for-see a Kovalev fight in the near future.

Both men still have options out there to fight and Stevenson can make some big money in a Hopkins fight at the Barclays Center. So, I won't be surprised if Adonis Stevenson does duck Sergey Kovalev for the time being because it makes boxing sense from the business side.

If Steveson gets KO'd by Kovalev, then he loses future earnings, he wins that fight, it expands his profile but so does beating a Benard Hopkins and it's an easier fight. Personally, I think Stevenson would beat Kovalev but right now in Adonis' mind, the risk is far greater than the reward at this moment.

Stevenson has options, Kovalev not so much.

I can get why Stevenson would want to wait on a Kovalev fight, but it just straight up sucks for boxing fans if he does...expect Kovalev to plow a trail of destruction through the Agnews of the LHW division while Stevenson gets the prestige fights cos he's got the financial backing.

[bojangles1987]

Hopefully we don't get either side pricing themselves out.

[have_not]

First Adonis says he doesn't want to fight Kovalev because kovalev is not a big fight(ducking) And now after getting pressed by hbo and fans he says he wants to get a lot of monet for a fight of big magnitude.. I dont know who's gonna win but respect for kovalev, he does everything he can to make the fight while stevenson clearly dont want any of kovalev. But thankfully the fight will happen, should be awesome

[have_not]

Also stevenson said after his last fight against that brit that kovalev isnt a big name that's why he wont fight him.
Well kovalev is more known and a world champ than his prefered oppenent his meeting next, that pole

[skinnystev]

"superman" needs to get compensated as highly as possible fight after all he is risking death

[kafkod]

Haymon is a boxing adviser and I'm worried the first advice he gave Stevenson was "Don't fight Kovalev." We'll see.

[Flash13]

Each fighter should get 1.5 mill, but fuuuuccckk I don't see this fight happening now. This was the fight I was looking forward to the most.

[Bigg Rigg]

Isn't funny how fighters say so and so isn't a big enough name yet but then go and fight a guy nobody wants to see or cares about???

[MBE]

Didn't HBO give Berto 2.3M for Freddy Hernandez?

Stevenson and Kovalev both deserve twice as much each. These fighters risk their lives for our entertainment, they should be compensated fairly for such an endeavor.

Especially in a fight where some will definitely get stretched.