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    Dan RafaelESPN Senior Writer

Middleweights Curtis Stevens and James de la Rosa, already scheduled to fight on the non-televised undercard of unified light heavyweight titlist Sergey Kovalev’s defense against Andre Ward on Nov. 19 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, will now get to perform for a much wider audience.

The scheduled 10-round bout was elevated to the televised portion of the HBO PPV card (9 p.m. ET) on Wednesday, promoters Main Events and Roc Nation Sports announced.

Main Events, which promotes Kovalev, and Roc Nation Sports, which represents Ward, each made their bouts on their own for the pay-per-view, but the fourth fight of the telecast was supposed to be the bout they made together matching their boxers.

When they were unable to finalize a fight that they could agree on, or one that was worthy of being on the pay-per-view, Stevens-de la Rosa, a Main Events match made a few weeks ago, was bumped up to the telecast.

The fight will be the second in row for Stevens (28-5, 21 KOs), 31, a former world title challenger from Brooklyn, New York, on HBO PPV. He fought on the Canelo Alvarez-Amir Khan HBO PPV undercard in May and scored an impressive second-round upset knockout of then-undefeated Patrick Teixeira.

Stevens, who lost a world title challenge by eighth-round knockout to Gennady Golovkin in 2013, was happy to have his next fight added to another HBO PPV telecast.

“I know it is Kovalev-Ward but now it is Kovalev-Ward-Stevens,” he said.

De la Rosa (23-4, 13 KOs), 28, of Harlingen, Texas, has lost his last two fights. His last victory, an upset 10-round decision win against Alfredo Angulo in 2014, was on the Showtime PPV undercard of Floyd Mayweather’s second victory against Marcos Maidana.

“I am happy to fight on the PPV telecast,” de la Rosa said. “I need this win so I’ll leave it all in the ring come Nov. 19.”

Promoter Kathy Duva, CEO of Main Events, said once it was clear that Main Events and Roc Nation Sports were not going to be able to put together another fight in time for the remaining pay-per-view slot, the decision was made to go with Stevens-de la Rosa.

“After we announced Curtis would be fighting on the untelevised portion of the Kovalev-Ward PPV card, we heard from a lot of fans asking that the fight be moved to TV so they could see Curtis,” Duva said. “What the fans want, the fans get.”