I misunderstood what you were saying and edited that out shortly after you were writing your response. I was referring to after he signed with Haymon, not before.
All three parties have to be involved in working out the details, money, terms, etc. The email was an agreement for the basic principles, which the three parties to agree on. From there the legal documents have to be written up, lawyers, managers, etc, it's not just that simple. For example the same time line was with Kovalev and his deal as he just inked up his contract with HBO last week (the same time Stevenson would have)
What I would expect from you since we go way back is to simply own up to a mistake and simply say, "my bad, I was wrong about a couple things I thought otherwise" rather than act immature about it. You made a couple false claims, I showed they were false, and you come at me with you're a hater. This is downgrading yourself to the level if a bigface or a poster like that. It's not even a significant point (me picking Stevenson as KO of the year and Fighter of the year runner up), iit's not even that serious to act in that kind of manner.
Agreement was made.
HBO sat on the paperwork for at least two months.
Stevenson hires Haymon to renegotiate.
They present it to HBO.
HBO declines.
Per the contract they are free to shop and hit SHO.
SHO gives Stevenson what he wanted.
Stevenson then goes BACK to HBO so they can counter.
HBO passes.
And like I said, the links were not working at the time so let me click on them. I have NO PROBLEM saying I am wrong, so if you said it let me look.
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