Predictable: Kovalev vs Stevenson won't happen.

technocrato · Apr 16, 2015

Dubblechin said: ↑

Those Golovkin Title fights were shown on multiple Fox Sports channels in the U.S. (on DirecTV). I recorded them. In fact, they were replayed dozens of times because my DVR kept recording them.

BET is only available in the U.S., to my knowledge. And it's available in 90 million homes ... that's a helluva lot more homes than HBO is available in (like three times as many).

And Kovalev is "one" of their fighters. What's the precedent for NOT letting him fight a one-off bout away from HBO? They're letting another one of their "stars" - Ward - fight off HBO in June. That doesn't exactly help HBO's case in the matter.

I highly doubt there's anything in Kovalev's contract that says he "must" fight all his bouts on HBO, because that's not the case with anyone else.

If Kovalev wanted to press it, I don't see how HBO could do anything about it. I just think HBO and Duva are more worried about their own positions in the sport than with what's in Kovalev's best interests in this instance.

They aren't worried about boxing on Fox Sports or BET taking them over, and they aren't worried about K2 or Roc Nation squeezing them out. But they are worried about the PBC airing a Kovalev-Stevenson fight, because Kovalev will likely make more than he makes with HBO. (Hell Lamont Peterson makes more than Kovalev makes.)

Kovalev's getting some bad advice. And, frankly, I don't know how bright he actually is. Because he shouldn't allow it.
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That is only because Kovalev brings them money whoever he fights. Ward on the other hand...

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