By James Blears

WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson is laying down the gauntlet to WBA, IBF and WBO champion Sergey Kovalev to put all other considerations aside and to step up for a war to see who's the last man standing.

At the presentation of the Emerald Belt in Mexico City, Adonis gave an insightful assessment of the victory of his former opponent Andrzej Fonfara, who stopped Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. in the ninth round, this past Saturday night, to win the WBC International belt.

Last year, Stevenson dropped Fonfara twice in the early rounds and was winning handidly, but then Fonfara staged a late rally down the stretch and scored a knockdown on Stevenson, who sucked it up and went on to win a twelve round decision.

If Chavez would have been successful on Saturday, he would have been targeting Stevenson Chavez wants a rematch with Fonfara at 170-pounds, but Stevenson is advising him to forget a rematch and head straight down to super middleweight. 

Adonis said: "This was a very good fight for Fonfara. You could see that he was bigger than Chavez. Chavez hadn't been in the ring for 13 months, and Julio should definitely go to 168-pounds."