Comments Thread For: Espinoza Disappointed With 'Deceitful' Move of Canelo Deal

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Stephen Espinoza, the head of Showtime Sports, was not necessarily surprised that Golden Boy Promotions signed Mexican superstar Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (44-1-1, 31KOs) to an exclusive long-term deal with HBO. Canelo's last five fights were carried by Showtime, including a recording breaking pay-per-view against Floyd Mayweather Jr. from last September, which generated 2.2 million pay-per-view purchases.

Canelo made his Showtime debut on September 15th, 2012 - with a blowout of Josesito Lopez at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Golden Boy, then run by CEO Richard Schaefer, was very upset with HBO for refusing to give them a requested date of September 15th - which fell on Mexican Independence Day weekend. HBO gave the September date to Top Rank, who staged a pay-per-view with Canelo's main Mexican rival, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., defending his WBC middleweight title against Sergio Martinez at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.
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[Hougigo]

How can another netowrk poach a fighter when they already had a verbal agreement in place? Only a network like HBO would do something like that

[beerbelly14]

Don't worry, karma will fall upon Oscar who ultimately decided to move Canelo to HBO.

Oscar will be left with nothing once all of Haymon's guys leave GoldenGirl Promotions and join Mayweather promotions.

[Slick Veteran]

Oscar is a puppet.. Hope B Hop takes over GB somehow because he keeps saving it.

[Nights King]

Espinoza is a little Salky

[KO MX]

Don't worry, karma will fall upon Oscar who ultimately decided to move Canelo to HBO.

Oscar will be left with nothing once all of Haymon's guys leave GoldenGirl Promotions and join Mayweather promotions.

lol you mad bro?

[KRITKL]

Karma's a mfker.

[vman075]

"We were gonna reject Clottey as an opponent." I didn't know he knew the meaning of that. He should learn how to say that to Haymon

[Kneeguel Cotto]

How can another netowrk poach a fighter when they already had a verbal agreement in place? Only a network like HBO would do something like that

BEcause it wasn't truly a verbal agreement. It sounded like a business proposal, bruh

[Slick Veteran]

Also Oscar was not the catalyst for Bernard Hopkins fighting on HBO against Kovalev, it was Bernard Hopkins who did all the work. Bernard Hopkins saved Goldenboy and engineered the bridge back to a relationship. If Al Haymon didn't try to cheat Bernard Hopkins out of his titles to protect Stevenson, Bernard never would had cared because remember he was riding with Schaefer and them. Bernard Hopkins is the smartest go over there along with Eric Gomez, Oscar is stuck mentally on bob Arum thumb in his ass.

I guarantee Oscar will not thank Hopkins and/or give him more shares then the little percentage he already has.