Comments Thread For: Showtime VP Responds To Claims, Promoters Chime In

[stoggio]

Doesn't Kathy Duva silently run the boxing series at NBC?

[PUK_MY_DANG_34]

Cathy Duva is full of sh.t! She says it is impossible to get a date on Showtime; yet she has never tried to get a date on Showtime. She claims there have been only 10 PPV stars in the 30-year history of PPV. However, she failed to mention that none of them were promoted by Duva promotions. In other words, she claims she wants to build PPV stars who can command the type of money that Mayweather makes instead of putting her fighters in fights where they make $1 or $2 million. Yet, in her 30-year career, she has failed to produce one PPV star and has only had two or three boxers in her stable who have made that $1 or $2 million per fight that she refers to.

This woman is a complete idiot. Kovalev will never become a PPV star and will never make more than $1 or $2 million in a fight whether he fights for Showtime or HBO. Neither will anyone else in the Duva stable.

Pretty sure Evander Holyfield was promoted by Main Events...

[Holywarrior]

Have no stock in Showtime so let them go broke. Just show me the fights

Damn right. I'd rather have the network broke then all these greasey promoters and networks getting all the cash and not fighters.

Are people in here fans of fighters or networks? Craziness. I highly doubt a niche sport like boxing is going to bankrupt CBS.

One advertisement on the Big Bang Theory alone could pay for the upcoming matthysse/Thurman card.

[jas]

Espinoza is a liar who obviously takes turns to take it up the ass from Schaefer and therefore he is preventing fights from happening. Disgraceful.

[lov 2 box]

Sure seems that way. Espinoza along with Haymon and Schaefer are going to bankrupt and ruin Showtime.

And you know this how?

[Clegg]

So in response to claims that Showtime only pick up fights involving GBP or Haymon, Espinoza says that isn't true because they just signed Stevenson. Even though Stevenon is signed with Haymon...

[RSBonos]

Pretty funny how Espinoza can't even come up with one example of a non Haymon/GBP promoter having even one card in the 2+ years he's been there (Top Rank had the date made before he came on and Shobox doesn't count).

So transparent.

[Mikhnienko]

Espinoza is such a lying snake he claims Duva has never approached him to do a deal yet when Kovalev was Hopkins mandatory he refused to air the fight which killed it but goes on to approve Karo Murat.

[bojangles1987]

They don't work exclusively with Haymon and Golden Boy, yet they only feature Haymon and Golden Boy fighters.

Seems legit.

[Hougigo]

Doesn't Kathy Duva silently run the boxing series at NBC?

Not silently, she's pretty loud that she's the one who brought it back on