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By Thomas Gerbasi - Rod Salka isn’t angry. He isn’t bitter, and he doesn’t get annoyed every time someone questions his August 9th fight with unified 140-pound champion Danny Garcia at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Why would he be? Regardless of what anyone outside the ropes has to say, he’s still getting the biggest fight of his career on a huge stage in a Showtime main event. It’s a done deal, and it doesn’t matter that it’s a non-title fight, one being fought at a weight (142 pounds) the lightweight Salka was last in the vicinity of in 2011, or one in which he is a prohibitive underdog.
The fight’s happening. And at this point, you can’t say anything about the Bunola, Pennsylvania native that he hasn’t heard before. It’s all just noise now.
“I don’t take it personally,” he said. “Everybody has their opinion and they’re entitled to it. Showtime has seen me in the gym and in fights and they know what I can do, and Golden Boy (the event promoter) and those guys know what I can do because they’ve seen it, but everybody else really hasn’t yet, so I can’t blame them if that’s what they want to think. It doesn’t make it true.”
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Why would he be? Regardless of what anyone outside the ropes has to say, he’s still getting the biggest fight of his career on a huge stage in a Showtime main event. It’s a done deal, and it doesn’t matter that it’s a non-title fight, one being fought at a weight (142 pounds) the lightweight Salka was last in the vicinity of in 2011, or one in which he is a prohibitive underdog.
The fight’s happening. And at this point, you can’t say anything about the Bunola, Pennsylvania native that he hasn’t heard before. It’s all just noise now.
“I don’t take it personally,” he said. “Everybody has their opinion and they’re entitled to it. Showtime has seen me in the gym and in fights and they know what I can do, and Golden Boy (the event promoter) and those guys know what I can do because they’ve seen it, but everybody else really hasn’t yet, so I can’t blame them if that’s what they want to think. It doesn’t make it true.”
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