Kathy Duva on The Possibility of Stevenson-Kovalev and Quillen-Stevens Happening

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“Curtis is back, there’s no doubt, and he’s going to move right back into things in the middleweight division. Stevens learned a lot from the Golovkin fight but he wants all the big names, Martinez, Cotto, and Quillin. A lot of interesting fights and I think he wins them all.” That was Main Events’ CEO Kathy Duva’s reaction after Curtis Stevens 1st round stoppage of Patrick Majewski last Friday in Atlantic City.

Stevens returned from the Golovkin loss with a bang and put the division on notice that Stevens’ is still a contender and is coming for the belt and in particular Peter Quillin when he told Chris Mannix on the telecast that, “He’d melt that chocolate.”  But is that fight realistic being that there is a network war and in that network war, there are promotional allegiances? Main Events has promoted most of their shows on the NBC Sports Network but two of their fighters, Curtis Stevens and Sergey Kovalev have appeared on the HBO Network last year. Being that Showtime is exclusively for the most part, telecasting Golden Boy fights, can Quillin-Stevens really happen? Kathy Duva says the balls in Golden Boy’s court

“We’re not tied into one network but the way things have been going it seems like the folks at Golden Boy and Showtime seem like they’re keeping fights in house and that’s their options. But obviously that would be a problem but we’re open and we’d love to talk about it. And it’s a fight we’d like to make and imagine that fight. Imagine that fight in Brooklyn, it makes sense, we’re open to discussing it,” Duva told ThaBoxingVoice.com

Speaking of Kovalev, he has been everywhere on HBO, whether it’s knocking people out in his fights or being in the crowd sporting a cool t-shirt at other fights. In his last fight, he made it clear that he wants one fight and that’s a showdown with Adonis Stevenson. In boxing there are fights that can’t be made because of promotional ties and cold war agendas. But if there’s one fight that should be made and should have no barriers to make, it’s Stevenson-Kovalev for the 175 lb supremacy. Duva thinks the fight happens this year on HBO.

 “We want it, that fight has been discussed seriously from HBO and Stevenson promoter Yvon Michelle. We’re reasonably confident that the fight is going to be made. The plan is to have an HBO fight for Kovalev in spring probably on the same card with Stevenson and have them fight before the end of the year.”