Thread: Adonis Stevenson vs. Tommy Karpency on September 11th

Adonis Stevenson To Face Tommy Karpency on Sept. 11 - Boxing News

Absolute joke of a fight. People might criticize Kovalev's last opponent but that was a forced mandatory, Stevenson seems to be just taking nice, easy voluntary fights. Karpency poses absolutely no threat at all.

I think that they did take that as they had no interesting options on the table at the moment so they decided to take something in order to keep Stevenson active and perhaps to tune him up for something better somewhere in 2016.

Awful

Joke fight, surely they could have a least rematched Fonfara failing anything else?

Originally Posted by p4pking

Joke fight, surely they could have a least rematched Fonfara failing anything else?

Fonfara is fighting Cleverly

Originally Posted by Tam Seddon

Originally Posted by p4pking

Joke fight, surely they could have a least rematched Fonfara failing anything else?

Fonfara is fighting Cleverly

Ah ok, didn't hear about that and nothing was on boxrec for Fonfara when I checked. That's a decent fight, I suppose the winner of it will get Adonis in 2016

Originally Posted by Nameless

I think that they did take that as they had no interesting options on the table at the moment so they decided to take something in order to keep Stevenson active and perhaps to tune him up for something better somewhere in 2016.

Yeah, yeah, and yeah. What your saying is until something surefire easy comes along.
I hate to say this about any fighter but Stevenson is looking more and more like a coward. He's going to hang on to that belt as long as he possibly can and doesn't give a damn what anyone thinks.
Hopefully he runs into a Junieski Gonzalez and gets his ass kicked. I've really lost patience with the guy.

Never heard of him..... never seen him.
He must, however, have a thing for Rayco Saunders (23-26-2), as I see he's fought the guy three times.

Gotta wonder where Adonis' camp dredged up... er... found this opponent.

Originally Posted by beenKOed

Originally Posted by Nameless

I think that they did take that as they had no interesting options on the table at the moment so they decided to take something in order to keep Stevenson active and perhaps to tune him up for something better somewhere in 2016.

Yeah, yeah, and yeah. What your saying is until something surefire easy comes along.
I hate to say this about any fighter but Stevenson is looking more and more like a coward. He's going to hang on to that belt as long as he possibly can and doesn't give a damn what anyone thinks.
Hopefully he runs into a Junieski Gonzalez and gets his ass kicked. I've really lost patience with the guy.

http://youtu.be/FKss2pBYQ6Y

Seriously, they have to aim higher. Beterbiev and Kovalev blazing war paths..new all fire Gonzalez making a name, Pascal fighting his balls off and heart out simultaneously and Ward walking into his house like he was banging his wife and Stevenson is fighting club fighters and spr middleweights. Tommy will be scrappy but this one in the words of Kovalev is a 'pizz'a chit'.

Originally Posted by TitoFan

Never heard of him..... never seen him.
He must, however, have a thing for Rayco Saunders (23-26-2), as I see he's fought the guy three times.

Gotta wonder where Adonis' camp dredged up... er... found this opponent.

He did beat Chad Dawson a while back, which had a lot more to do with Dawson being shit and even still I think I had it about even. Would only make this fight passable if Dawson had done anything after Stevenson iced him, or shown a shred of his former ability that night.

It would be interesting comparing Kovalev and Stevenson , if Stevenson fought Cleverly.
That at least will be interesting.

People used to criticise Haymon for getting HBO and Showtime to pay out for appearance fights/easy defences for his guys on their networks. When he started the PBC people assumed that now he'd paid so much for airtime and his new business was on the line then he'd need to make competitive fights to get big ratings and grow his business.

This isn't exactly a competitive fight. Haymon must be supremely confident that he can keep getting increased ratings even while putting fights like this one on. I'm not so sure.

Originally Posted by p4pking

Originally Posted by TitoFan

Never heard of him..... never seen him.
He must, however, have a thing for Rayco Saunders (23-26-2), as I see he's fought the guy three times.

Gotta wonder where Adonis' camp dredged up... er... found this opponent.

He did beat Chad Dawson a while back, which had a lot more to do with Dawson being shit and even still I think I had it about even. Would only make this fight passable if Dawson had done anything after Stevenson iced him, or shown a shred of his former ability that night.

Chad Dawson. Now there's a fighter that has been going down in flames ever since that pitiful performance against Andre Ward. Yeah... Karpency got the decision against Dawson, but like you pretty well said... so what.

Stevensons such a bitch. Hed much prefer to get a couple of women in there so he can beat away at him. Its such a joke that scum like him get paid huge sums of money to fight in complete mismatches.

Originally Posted by beenKOed

Originally Posted by Nameless

I think that they did take that as they had no interesting options on the table at the moment so they decided to take something in order to keep Stevenson active and perhaps to tune him up for something better somewhere in 2016.

Yeah, yeah, and yeah. What your saying is until something surefire easy comes along.
I hate to say this about any fighter but Stevenson is looking more and more like a coward. He's going to hang on to that belt as long as he possibly can and doesn't give a damn what anyone thinks.
Hopefully he runs into a Junieski Gonzalez and gets his ass kicked. I've really lost patience with the guy.

Michel wanted him to fight Kovalev, finally but they decided to go for Kovalev-Pascal instead, which left Stevenson without super good options at the time. Thus said, I am not saying that to defend Stevenson; After his past emerge, I have a bit of difficulty to rally behind him but I truly believe that it'S what happend. And now that he's with Haymon, god knows what can get between him and a solid fight.