Give him about a year and a half, a little less, and he will come back and all on his mind will be Superman Stevenson. He KNOWS he can't just leave it like "that"....

What he is going to do is fight a blown up SuperMiddleweight- like a Brophy, or Chudinov, or Nielsen or Smith. Then the talks about a Stevenson fight, if Stevenson remains on top, will start to ruminate... but before that he will take on two "ok" Light Heavies- A Joe Smith, or Bivol, but not as dangerous as Beterbiev, but more along the lines of Jack, Alvarez or Koelling... and then MONEY is to be made.

Unless they pump up Beterbiev and/or Alvarez, and either one of them beats Stevenson, it makes no sense to come back for less money just to fight.

The only thing that can take shape is a HEAVY MONIED prize/title fight against Stevenson. OR the man that beat Stevenson and the MONEY is and how it is set up is "right".

But odds are a Ward/Stevenson fight needed to happen. We know it, and they know it.