Comments Thread For: Adonis Stevenson's Promoter Reveals on HBO and Kovalev

[HanzGruber]

Boxing shouldn't even be considered a sport anymore.

yea nba shouldnt either, since old ass kobe just ***ed the lakers by signing a 50 mil contract losing all hope of them winning ever again, right?

[-MAKAVELLI-]

the-pretending-to-negotiate-but-then-run-at-the-first-chance-you-can method


**** Stevenson and his bull****

[turnedup]

Boxing shouldn't even be considered a sport anymore.

It is no longer a sport much like hip-hop is no longer a brand of music..it's all a job now because its only about the money now.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

I don't understand how Delvin Rodriguez got paid a million dollars.

[hitking]

There it is in a nutshell, exactly how I tried to explain the situation over on the other thread. HBO f.ucked the fight off by not making it a priority. HBO is living in the stoneage where they think they can get on the air a scream and hollar "duck", get a legion of f.ucktards behind them screaming the same thing, and that will force fighters to play ball. Wrong on all fronts. They did the same with Floyd-Pac, and lost out. They're trying the same with Stevenson-Kovalev, and appear to have lost out. And after Martinez-Cotto, they're gonna try and force the winner into a GGG fight, and it ain't gonna happen. They need to pull their heads outta their asses and realize they aren't the pinnacle any more. And fighters aren't gonna allow HBO to treat them any kinda way to simply get on their telecasts. Showtime has stepped their game up and HBO better get with it. They're putting all their stock in Bob Arum, and a couple overrated Russians. Arum already showed he doesn't give a rat's ass about hbo when he took Pac-Mosley over to Showtime. And if HBO plays their cards wrong again, Andre Ward, who's a tough sell, is gonna end up exposing both Russians, and then taking his act to Showtime his damnself. Or leaving before he fights either and forcing them to match the Russians with each other because they have nowhere else to go.

[skinnystev]

adonis "piece of ****" stevenson

[Shadow boxer 3]

Boxing shouldn't even be considered a sport anymore.

this is what happens when networks overpay for certain fights (ward-Rodriquez) , it makes other fighters feel they should be paid that kind of money as well so they start turning down offers

[Shadow boxer 3]

I don't understand how Delvin Rodriguez got paid a million dollars.

exactly !!!!

[turnedup]

There it is in a nutshell, exactly how I tried to explain the situation over on the other thread. HBO f.ucked the fight off by not making it a priority. HBO is living in the stoneage where they think they can get on the air a scream and hollar "duck", get a legion of f.ucktards behind them screaming the same thing, and that will force fighters to play ball. Wrong on all fronts. They did the same with Floyd-Pac, and lost out. They're trying the same with Stevenson-Kovalev, and appear to have lost out. And after Martinez-Cotto, they're gonna try and force the winner into a GGG fight, and it ain't gonna happen. They need to pull their heads outta their asses and realize they aren't the pinnacle any more. And fighters aren't gonna allow HBO to treat them any kinda way to simply get on their telecasts. Showtime has stepped their game up and HBO better get with it. They're putting all their stock in Bob Arum, and a couple overrated Russians. Arum already showed he doesn't give a rat's ass about hbo when he took Pac-Mosley over to Showtime. And if HBO plays their cards wrong again, Andre Ward, who's a tough sell, is gonna end up exposing both Russians, and then taking his act to Showtime his damnself. Or leaving before he fights either and forcing them to match the Russians with each other because they have nowhere else to go.

Dude you are a full time Haymon apologist...nothing else but excuse making would be expected from you..it was that hard to just sign the contract, fight and move since according to Adonis the fight would be an easy win...love how when it's easy out of team haymon's fighters they never actually sign up to fight.

[Butt stuff]

What was left out of this article that will go right over people's heads is that while yes Stevenson is going to get 20% more at Showtime he's also gotta pay a lot of new people so in the end how much of that 20% does stevenson end up seeing? He's got another middle man now collecting on his behalf,and how many middlemen does Haymon also have? You are going to fight Bhop, yeah well let's take a wild guess who is going to make the most money in that equation..certainly not stevenson. So yeah it may seem on the surface like you are getting more money but the reality is Showtime will be ok with giving him a few more tuneups and that's the problem...won't be no rush for a Bhop fight either because well it's not how Haymon works. We'll see more adonis against a few differently named versions of Fonfara before we even see a Bhop showdown...That is the only reason they left HBO. They tried the same shhh with Broner, let HBO make him a name..then when HBO wanted him to step up competition he left for Showtime..in Broner's case Karma got him via the name 'Marcos Maidana'.

Well said, shouldve just taken the lions share of the kovalev purse and i think it would still sell really well in his home venue, too huge KO artists?!