Kathy Duva condemns ‘Mayweather and the circus’

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KATHY DUVA, the promoter of Sergey Kovalev who goes into a rematch with Andre Ward on Saturday, has criticised the announcement of Floyd Mayweatherโ€™s clash with UFC star Conor McGregor for drawing attention away from the Ward-Kovalev fight week.

โ€œItโ€™s all Mayweather and the circus and itโ€™s a shame,โ€ Duva said.

Mayweather-McGregor will be broadcast on Showtime. It was announced a few days before Ward-Kovalev on HBO, it will take place on August 26, the same day HBO screen Miguel Cotto-Yoshihiro Kamegai and a few weeks ahead of Gennady Golovkin-Canelo Alvarez on September 16, which will also be on HBO.

โ€œThey can land some blows on HBO but in the end theyโ€™re still going to be there.ย  None of us should think that weโ€™re somehow weโ€™re going to permanently inflict damage on a corporation the size of Time Warner and not have them get even in the end,โ€ said Duva. โ€œThey play their games. Theyโ€™re playing a game they canโ€™t win in the long run. They can make a whole lot of money. Theyโ€™re going to have a hugely successful event, all thatโ€™s true and theyโ€™re going to in some tiny little way inflict some damage on the Time Warner corporation but itโ€™s going to be very temporary.

โ€œHBO was here when we started and itโ€™s going to be here for a long, long time.โ€

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Duva suggested the Mayweather-McGregor event will be damaging for boxing. โ€œThe worst part about it, the casual fans, the ones that we always want to bring into the tent, theyโ€™re going to be devastated, theyโ€™re going to be disappointed and itโ€™s going to be another three years before theyโ€™ll want to see a boxing event and thatโ€™s too bad. But itโ€™s not a boxing event,โ€ she said. โ€œItโ€™s a huge spectacle, I get it.โ€

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