HBO rejecting Alvarez vs Kovalev rematch (rumours)

The reason came in that the contract for the rematch was for way too much money. What I'm wondering is if they come to an agreement for a cheaper price... does that mean Alvarez makes less money, sounds like the contract would be void if they had to alter the deal to have it on tv and have alvarez to say yes or no.

 

I just looked into this. As of now despite what ESPN said the rematch still hasn't been officially excersized. Kovalev teams plans to excersize but they have until October 4th to do so. It might just be paper work left only.

As for terms of the contract they have to pay Alvarez an alaready agreed upon amount of money and have to follow everything. On that Contract it might even say it has to be on HBO I don't know those details. in order for it to be on ESPN or DAZN or Showtime.They'd have to pay Alvarez the same or slightly higher than in the first Kovalev fight. that's not to say, they can't work out a different contract on the side and have team Alvarez agree. but for the sake of the automatic rematch a lot has to get down by October 4th.

 

in other news Kovalev said congrats on Instagram to Alvarez.

 

Quebec media seems to think the fight will happen and on HBO. the hiccup is location more than anything. HBO wants to do Quebec as it would make the most money there.

 

Alvarez is with PBC, which if HBO doesn't accept the offer there's a decent chance, but I could see Duva refusing to work with Haymon.

 

Apparently this is going to ESPN for before xmas.