Bernard Hopkins vs Kovalev (November)

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HERESY

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That's one hell of a way to twist things hersey. The only ducker/bitch in this whole saga is Stevenson's punk ass. Now it looks like he won't even fight Pascal. Dude is bitch.
Not true. Stevenson's camp released the emails and they supported what he was saying. I already posted them months ago bro and Kovalev's camp never refuted them.

I don't know about the Pascal situation so I can't speak on it.

Btw, Kovalev didn't sue anyone. His promoter Kathy Duva filed the lawsuit.
She filed on his behalf. Once you file you're suing someone.

The reason she dropped it is because they got the Hopkins fight and the entire point of the lawsuit was for damages done for potential money they would have made, but since they got Hopkins they are making money (no damage).
And they would have lost. Stevenson's emails confirm everything he was saying.
 
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HERSEY, I don't know why you have a blind spot for Stevenson. If you havent noticed, all the fights we want to see that aren't involve one person - Al Haymon. As soon as Stevenson signed with Haymon the Kovalev fight stalled and then he jumped to Showtime. Doesn't take great detective work to figure out what's going on here.
 

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HERSEY, I don't know why you have a blind spot for Stevenson. If you havent noticed, all the fights we want to see that aren't involve one person - Al Haymon. As soon as Stevenson signed with Haymon the Kovalev fight stalled and then he jumped to Showtime. Doesn't take great detective work to figure out what's going on here.
Yes, Haymon is trying to maximize. No need for a fighter who is FOTY and champ to fight for scraps. Stevenson's team put the numbers and conditions out there AFTER team kovalev lied and they have NOT refuted those claims.
 
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Yeah sure, that's why they sued Stevenson/GB/Haymon.

Haymon will maximize thats for sure. Maximize pay for terrible fights. Pretty much single handedly killing the sport. $2m to fight Fonfara which only averaged 640k viewers. I can't wait till Espinoza is fired and we all know it's just a matter of time with all these horrible ratings SHO has been getting.

So yeah, Stevenson got nervous that HBO was forcing a Kovalev fight, he signs with Al Haymon and he's guaranteed to fight low risk fights while getting paid. Nice mentality from a "Fighter of the Year". Dude's a chump.

I'm glad Hopkins exposed Haymon for what he was trying to do (get Hopkins stripped of his belt while delaying the Stevenson fight) and screwed Stevenson over. Karma
 
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PHILADELPHIA *- A routine check-up is anything but when Bernard "The Alien" Hopkins visits the doctor in preparation of his Nov. 8 light heavyweight unification bout against Sergey "Krusher" Kovalev taking place at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City live on HBO World Championship Boxing®.



Hopkins, wearing his trademark alien mask, saw doctors early this week as he readies himself for one of the toughest challenges of his storied career. You can follow all things Hopkins' by liking his official page on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TheRealBHop .
 
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Absolute gems from a conference call:

“It’s not a personal challenge to me,” insists the record-breaking former middleweight king and current - and two-time - light heavyweight champ. “I have always said that John David Jackson is one of those elite trainers out there who has never really gotten that respect. On November 8, he wants to get that big boost so that he can get that respect.

“Maybe John David Jackson will show him the fight that we fought (April ’97, which Hopkins won by 7th round knockout), and realize that he didn’t have the code to beat ‘The Executioner,’ at the time, and now, it’s ‘The Alien.’ So maybe John realizes how he should have ducked or how he should have fought at that time.”

Whatever secrets Jackson may or may not have to offer, Kovalev isn’t ready to tip his hand.

“What’s been said is between me and him,” Kovalev (25-0-1, 23KOs) cryptically stated when asked if any such conversations have taken place. “It’s the keys for my victory. I understand everyone wants to see and hear what happened in my training camp with John David Jackson.

“Everything you want to see, you will see on November 8. Welcome to HBO in Atlantic City.”?

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“That is a strategy. He gave it to you already,” Hopkins explains. “Having no strategy is a strategy. Kovalev feeds off how you react to him. If you show fear, he jumps on you. If not, he has to sharpen his knives.

“I can respect that. Your reaction feeds into his reaction. I understand what he means. He feeds off the energy of the fighters he fought in the amateurs, and who he’s fought in the pros. I’ve dug up tape on this guy. I want to know my enemy. I want to know how he sleeps. I want to know how he eats.”

“If he can punch like everyone says he can punch, there might not be a second chance,” Hopkins fully acknowledges. “This is the thing: can Bernard Hopkins take the punch he has from other big punchers? Whatever game plan he has, I’m not going to run from the gun, I’m going to disarm him. I’m going to take away his big punch. If he has a Plan B, then buckle up because we have a fight.

“I am going to disarm him, and then let’s see your skills. Let’s see how you fight.”

“John ain’t fighting. John ain’t in the ring,” Hopkins points out. “Look, you have to give the information to the athlete, and the athlete has to be able to take that information and be able to use it to the best of his abilities. So let’s see if he can do that, because John David Jackson definitely can’t fight for him.

John David Jackson had his chance. John David Jackson got knocked out. To me, how can the teacher teach the student, when the teacher flunked the test too?