By Allan Fox: Whether WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson (24-1, 20 KOs) wants to fight IBF/WBA/WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev (26-0-1, 23 KOs) or not, he’s going to find himself forced to face the winner of the March 14th fight between Kovalev and former WBC 175lb champion Jean Pascal (29-2-1, 17 KOs).
The World Boxing Council has agreed to a proposal from Kovalev’s promoters for the winner of the Kovalev-Pascal fight to become the WBC mandatory challenger. If Stevenson gets past Dmitry Sukhotsky (22-2, 16 KOs) tonight in their fight in Quebec, Stevenson will be looking at facing either Kovalev or Pascal in 2015.