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Adonis Stevenson (28-1, 23 KOs) is paying zero attention to the critics.

Since capturing the title from Chad Dawson in June of 2013, Stevenson has been hammered with criticism over his lack of elite competition.

"I'm the king of the division. When you're the king, you will get criticized. People talk. They can talk for as long as they want, I'm still the champion. I don't mind. It's been four years I am champion. They can say what they want. For real, I don't care for these people here," Stevenson told La Presse.

"For me, I want to unify the titles, which means more to me than breaking the defense record of Lucian Bute. It's major, it's global and it's where [my adviser]Al Haymon is heading. If it's Kovalev, then we'd have the chance to take it over here [to Canada]. If it's Andre Ward, he will be a lot more difficult to bring over, so I would have to go to Las Vegas or California."

According to Stevenson's promoter Yvon Michel, Stevenson could have very well face Sergey Kovalev in a unification when HBO was building that fight. But the Canadian star was offered a lot of money to jump over to Showtime for a unification with Bernard Hopkins, who at the time was also a champion with two belts at 175. But in a move that nobody expected, Hopkins jumped from Showtime to HBO to finalize a unification with Kovalev.

"Bernard Hopkins is the main reason why Adonis is on Showtime, not on HBO. We had a meeting with Richard Schaefer [then promoter of Hopkins]. Hopkins said: 'If Adonis comes on Showtime, we're doing a whole unification.' Everyone got a hug and we decided to go in that direction. Then there was an internal fight between Schaefer and Hopkins, and Hopkins went on HBO to fight against Kovalev," Michel explained.

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Stevenson is delusional... He's been fighting the worst 2nd raters imaginable ever since he stopped a used up Chad Dawson... There are a lot of great Light Heavyweights in the world and Stevenson won't fight them, starting with Kovalev, Beterbiev, Ward, Bivol, Barrera, Smith, and Boesel.

He is all talk no walk. Hope he gets ko'd or retires.

Ruthless-RKO wrote:Adonis Stevenson (28-1, 23 KOs) is paying zero attention to the critics.

and he is especially paying no mind to reality.

The Critics have talked, and they all agree you're like the 4th or 5th best guy in the division, maybe.

Whilst I’m no fan of Adonis Stevenson, since I do agree that he's certainly not the best 175lb-er in the division, it's an irrefutable fact that Sergey Kovalev actually “ducked” the WBC champ after the Russian's promoter (Kathy Duva) had lobbied long and hard to compel the WBC to mandate a bout between the pair.

I'm not trolling you folks, it actually happened and no amount of tears or feigned outrage will be able to disprove this rather simple easily verifiable fact of life!

gilgamesh wrote:The Critics have talked, and they all agree you're like the 4th or 5th best guy in the division, maybe.

I thought he was generally agreed to be 3rd. He's good he just won't take risks.

BitPlayer wrote:

gilgamesh wrote:The Critics have talked, and they all agree you're like the 4th or 5th best guy in the division, maybe.

I thought he was generally agreed to be 3rd. He's good he just won't take risks.

I think Beterbiev and Gvozdyk are better than him as well.

Stevenson is a joke. I hope he gets iced real soon so no one has to ever talk about him again.

He's been irrelevant since he fled the kovalev fight.

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:He's been irrelevant since he fled the kovalev fight.

Nope. Kovalev fled the Stevenson fight.

It's not just a case of one fight failing to materialize. Even without Ward and Kov, there are other LHWs who would be far better opponents than the guys he's been fighting for the last 3 years. Adonis is 40 in a few months, and his big fight now is against a guy he already beat, who was also KO'd in the first round two fights ago.

How long has Alvarez been the mandatory?

crusader wrote:It's not just a case of one fight failing to materialize. Even without Ward and Kov, there are other LHWs who would be far better opponents than the guys he's been fighting for the last 3 years. Adonis is 40 in a few months, and his big fight now is against a guy he already beat, who was also KO'd in the first round two fights ago.

How long has Alvarez been the mandatory?

Seems like at least 2 years. You're right, it's not just the way he ran away from kovalev and proved to be an unsavory coward, he won't even fight the best pbc guys. Though to be fair, most pbc fighters can't get fights to begin with.

Ironically, Adonis' shameless ducking of Kovalev was more significant than any of his fights since. At least HBO & Duva wised up and didn't take Ward's word for it when he put off the fight for a 'tune up'. If they didn't get it in writing, that may never have happened either.

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:Ironically, Adonis' shameless ducking of Kovalev was more significant than any of his fights since. At least HBO & Duva wised up and didn't take Ward's word for it when he put off the fight for a 'tune up'. If they didn't get it in writing, that may never have happened either.

Sergey Kovalev actually "ducked" Adonis Stevenson when he refused to accept a guaranteed shot at the WBC title. Even Kathy Duva conceded this fact.

Check your facts kiddo!

That was Duva getting into the purse bid trap set by Haymon.

boxing_rocks wrote:That was Duva getting into the purse bid trap set by Haymon.

That was actually Adonis and Al trying to save face after the blatant duck of kovalev. Only the fools fell for it.

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:

boxing_rocks wrote:That was Duva getting into the purse bid trap set by Haymon.

That was actually Adonis and Al trying to save face after the blatant duck of kovalev. Only the fools fell for it.

Kovalev ducked Stevenson.

The truth annoys you, so I'll keep repeating it, since you know for certain that I'm correct.

verlichte wrote:

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:

boxing_rocks wrote:That was Duva getting into the purse bid trap set by Haymon.

That was actually Adonis and Al trying to save face after the blatant duck of kovalev. Only the fools fell for it.

Kovalev ducked Stevenson.

The truth annoys you, so I'll keep repeating it, since you know for certain that I'm correct.

Only idiots like EO think so.

boxing_rocks wrote:

verlichte wrote:

SaadOffTheDeck wrote: That was actually Adonis and Al trying to save face after the blatant duck of kovalev. Only the fools fell for it.

Kovalev ducked Stevenson.

The truth annoys you, so I'll keep repeating it, since you know for certain that I'm correct.

Only idiots like EO think so.

I can't believe he thinks I read his posts.

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:

boxing_rocks wrote:

verlichte wrote: Kovalev ducked Stevenson.

The truth annoys you, so I'll keep repeating it, since you know for certain that I'm correct.

Only idiots like EO think so.

I can't believe he thinks I read his posts.

Haven't you just proven my point? Don't you see the irony in your statement?

Kovalev ducked Stevenson... FACT! And you know for certain that I can provide an overwhelming amount of evidence to prove this irrefutable easily verifiable FACT!