Comments Thread For: Showtime's Espinoza Reacts To Critics of Barclays Card

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The head of Showtime Sports, Stephen Espinoza, has received a lot of criticism over purchasing Saturday night's tripleheader from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. From top to bottom, fans are not happy.

The main event features WBC/WBA 140-pound champion Danny Garcia facing Rod Salka in a ten round non-title fight. Salka, mid-level contender at 135, is moving up to face Garcia. The fight received even more heat after the sanctioning bodies refused to approve it as a title fight and then Garcia's side requested a catch-weight of 142-pounds to boot.
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[Bronx2245]

Whatever! This card sucks. Now next week @ StubHub...pretty good! No reason this couldn't have been Peterson vs. Garcia. I think Danny got shook after fighting Herrera, and wanted a "tune-up," before a Peterson or Matthysse fight.

[Aristocrat]

Haymon got this dude on a leash

[The Big Dunn]

Terrible card. Espinoza seems like he is just trying to get thru 2014 and hope the GBP/SChaeffer situation resolves itself.

This card may not get 500k viewers.

[observer]

Someone explain to me how Espinoza can get away with this...

[Jsmooth9876]

As long as this tool keeps buying these cards from Haymon we'll keep getting crap matchups. Next week's fight is a good one but that was a mandatory or we may have never seen that one either.

[AddiX]

Notice how he barely tweets anymore?

It must be embarrassing when the Showtime execs ask him about all the hate he gets + there declining ratings.

[Hougigo]

Much praise. I'm really surprised they went with a very dangerous and underrated samba. Simba has the power and skill to ko fanny

[RyanjLarose]

P4P 1 ,ATG, HOF'ER

[racer59]

What the hell is this slimy looking douche bag supposed to say? Of course he is going to try and spin it. I just hope people are blasting him on twitter since he feels its necessary for a network exec to "tweet."