The head of Showtime Sports Stephen Espinoza has never been one to talk about the business of the sport in public. In fact on many occasions, even when deals are close to being done, Espinoza has been silent. This is in the wake of being a popular figure on the boxing-rich social media website, Twitter, in which he made headlines years ago when he joined and interacted with the fans.
In a recent interview on the Boxing with Chris Mannix Podcast, Espinoza shed light on a fight that many still want to see, the doomed fight of fall 2022, Errol Spence Jr. vs. Terence Crawford
This comes on the heels of Gervonta Davis and Ryan Garcia essentially stealing the thunder that Spence and Crawford should’ve had. The failed fight they should’ve been a part of, only made the fight for Davis and Garcia that much bigger. Yet, will the Davis vs. Garcia fight put pressure on Spence and Crawford to actually come to terms and create another mega-fight in 2023? Only time will tell.
“I know there’s still a desire on the Spence side. I believe Crawford when he says he’s interested as well,” further Espinoza on the Boxing with Chris Mannix Podcast. “As long as no one has given up, and I don’t think anyone has, there are certainly obstacles. The Rocha [fight] the sanctioning body ordered being one of them.”
The fight that Espinoza is speaking of is a bout between Terence Crawford and Alexis Rocha that WBO mandated as a mandatory title defense for Terence Crawford, which on paper, and given the current landscape of boxing seems like the next fight we see Terence Crawford in. Hearing Espinoza talk in a positive manner about this fight leads one to believe we might just have hope in the eleventh hour.
“I’m not [going to] give up. I’m not gonna give up until either one of them or both of them are retired.”
