By Daniel Cloutier MONTRÉAL - The Montreal trainer Howard Grant is categoric: never again will he be in the corner of Adonis Stevenson, never again will he trained him... and he never wants to see the face of Adonis in his gym again. Grant is really furious. In December, Stevenson decided to leave Grant’s gym, to join the Kronk Gym in Detroit, to work with the legendary trainer Emmanuel Steward. A few days ago, Stevenson went to meet Howard and Otis Grant, to ask them to work with Emmanuel Steward in his corner February 18th, at Bell Centre Theater, where Adonis will fight the American Jesus Gonzales (27-1-0) in an IBF super middleweight elimination bout, for the # 2 spot.

"Adonis just betrayed us for the second time, and believe me, it was the last time, said Howard. "We are not interested to be in his corner February 18th. No, no and no! We will never train him again, and I don’t want to see his face in my gym ever again. Adonis left my gym in 2010, to train in U.S.A., the result was that he lost by KO in less than two rounds against Darnell Boone in Maryland. He begged us to come back to our gym few months ago, when he signed a new contract with the GYM Group We took him. Look at the results? He just betrayed us again. Without warning, he left Montréal and our gym to go in Detroit to work with Emmanuel Steward. Enough is enough. I am wishing him good luck, but we will never give him another chance to insult us again."

Stevenson (16-1-0) said, "I did not want to insult the Grant’s brothers. I went at the Kronk Gym to get solid sparring partners. I could not get it at the Grant’s gym. As you know, I am living the most crucial moments of my career, I am closer then ever to a IBF world championship’s fight, then, I got to put all the chances on my side. The winner of this elimination bout will get the spot number two in the IBF rankings. I want to become the IBF world champion this year or next year, I will need to have perfect preparation each time I get in the ring."