That was one card and it also included Ishe Smith/Carlos Molina. Look at the very next Mayweather card where it's Mayweather/Madiana, Broner/Molina (little LW who was already KO'd by Khan), and Khan/Collazo. Look at the money Haymon wastes for networks with guys like Berto milking against sh*t fighters and now Wilder and Russell. Garcia/Herrera? Quillin/Konecny? Thurman/Julio Diaz? Where look at what happened at HBO when Artie Puello tried to make Provodnikov/DeMarco, HBO said no way.
Some people don't realise it only takes one duck. Stevenson is the duck here. Kovalev would gladly tango.
So this is the ol' "I'm moving to Showtime, sorry the fight is impossible now" duck. First invented by Floyd Mayweather. Well played, Adonis.
No this is the new "I'm moving to Showtime, sorry Jean but I'll make a fool out of you by beating the man who humiliated you in our backyard" move. First invented by Adonis to one up Pascal, who criticized Stevenson's accomplishments on national television @ L'Antichambre on January 20th. :deal :deal :deal
Hopefully Shumenov beats Hopkins and then jumps to HBO to fight his fellow Eastern-European, leaving Stevenson to fight a belt-less B-HOP for pennies. That's best case scenario as far as I can see.
Big let down from Stevenson. This again is representative of the Mayweather model of least risk/most reward and it's destroying boxing.
I gave Adonis the benefit of the doubt that he wouldn't duck Krusher until I had more evidence. Well, more evidence just happened. I'm sorry I was wrong- this chap wants nothing to do with Kovalev. Shameful move for a "champ" and for boxing.