WHEN it came to a highly anticipated world light-heavyweight championship fight on November 19, the most interested party wasn’t a participant. He wasn’t even in Las Vegas to watch Andre Ward remove a trio of championship belts from the possession of Sergey Kovalev.

But the ‘lineal’ champion of the 175-pound weight class, WBC titleholder Adonis Stevenson, was most certainly watching the most important fight to hit the division in years, one many believe should have been his.

“It was a good fight, a really close fight, and I think Andre Ward won it,” said Stevenson.

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