What's wrong with Adonis Stevenson fighting on Showtime?

:rofl

now I know you've lost the plot! Mayweather has had 5 years to fight Pac! 5 YEARS!!!

1 year hasn't even passed since Stevenson beat Dawson, yet Mayweather isn't ducking but Stevenson is?? I don't understand yall sometimes.

 

How about people just use their brains to form their own opinions and make their own decisions.
Weak minded f*cks.:rofl

 

Pac is on PEDS man. GSP recently left the UFC for this reason. Uneven playing field.

 

when fighters are trying to make a name for themselves the will say they will fight anyone, anywhere . . . its not just Kov, but all of the great Cuban boxers who are trying to breakout are saying the same thing. difference is that Kov has a more fan friendly style . . . this is not the end of the road for him . . . merely a bump in said road.

 

Indeed. Some people don't understand and they never will.

 

Making numbers up doesn't help anyone. There's short-term and long-term reward. Not to mention endorsement deals from sports appeal companies.

 

Would you keep bidding against yourself and a rival for a deal already agreed upon? When the guy certainly seems reluctant to play it out and fight the guy everyone wants to see him fight? Why pay extra for a Fonfara fight, a fight that you don't want anyway, all in hopes of the fight with Kovalev is next, when the guy seems to have absolutely zero intention of fighting him?

I shed no tears for HBO, thems the breaks, and business is war. But, hell, I want to see this fight, and Stevenson seems to be the only one who doesn't. Again, it's right for him, and it's smart business. But the blame is his.

 

The numbers don't need to accurate.
All you need to know is Stevenson definitely isn't rejecting $1M for $500K.
That's all you need to know.

 

In and of itself, nothing. Showtime offered Adonis more money, and making money is the name of the game.

It comes off as being a duck of Kovalev...and it probably is, but it's not like HBO was in any position to guarantee that Stevenson and Kovalev would have faced one another at any rate. It wouldn't be the first time their best laid plans have gone to waste. Plus, given HBO's reluctance to match Showtime's offer, it doesn;t seem as though they were as keen to make the unification bout as everyone makes them out to be.

Truth be told, this might be the best way to ensure that Adonis faces someone viable in the next year. If it's Hopkins, it's still an interesting fight. If it's against Shumenov, it's a fight with a style match-up that's almost as intriguing as Stevenson-Kovalev.

Meanwhile, Kovalev will likely consolidate his position as the number one contender/uncrowned champ in the division. If that's the case, he'll be free to face the fighter who emerges as the winner of Adonis vs Beibut/B-Hop next year. Ultimately, there aren't too many guys at LH for them to face in order to secure a big payday...so they would have to face one another sooner rather than later. It just seems to be a case of them facing one another in a different sequence than one might have hoped.

 

He's rejecting a fight with Kovalev. That's all you need to know.

HBO would have matched whatever Showtime was paying for Fonfara if he was willing to step up to the plate. Evidently, he didn't.

 

The most money for Stevenson would have been to fight Fonfara and then Kovalev on HBO, and then job to Showtime to fight Hopkins. He could have unified the division doing this, but they didn't. Geee, I wonder why they didn't do it this way. :think

 

Because he'd be missing Kovalev's belt. I said unify the division, not have a unified title (i.e. more than one belt). As in have all four belts plus the ring title -- be the undisputed champion. The scenario I mentioned would do just that.