Great posts in this thread.
Aside from the tactical explanations everyone has described, I always thought another factor in the lead up to the loss was it being a replacement fight. The canceled rematch with Peterson was a big letdown and it interrupted the final days of camp as he was peaking only 8 days before the fight. The Garcia fight was just a month later.
You have to be careful against any opponent under those circumstances and Garcia was not just some bum replacement. He has always been a prospect of his own, he was just on a very slow path because he was a little raw at first. So from Danny's end, he had time for a somewhat normal but condensed camp and only had to focus on Khan. I really don't know what went on behind closed doors with Roach and Khan and what they did to prepare specifically for Garcia, but seeing him get hit in those sparring sessions wasn't cool. Maybe he had put too much on his body b4 the fight with the interrupted/extended camp in addition to the other stylistic issues and adjustments Garcia presented.
So yeah, it was timing..during the actual fight and outside. Red flags were all over the place.
Aside from the tactical explanations everyone has described, I always thought another factor in the lead up to the loss was it being a replacement fight. The canceled rematch with Peterson was a big letdown and it interrupted the final days of camp as he was peaking only 8 days before the fight. The Garcia fight was just a month later.
You have to be careful against any opponent under those circumstances and Garcia was not just some bum replacement. He has always been a prospect of his own, he was just on a very slow path because he was a little raw at first. So from Danny's end, he had time for a somewhat normal but condensed camp and only had to focus on Khan. I really don't know what went on behind closed doors with Roach and Khan and what they did to prepare specifically for Garcia, but seeing him get hit in those sparring sessions wasn't cool. Maybe he had put too much on his body b4 the fight with the interrupted/extended camp in addition to the other stylistic issues and adjustments Garcia presented.
So yeah, it was timing..during the actual fight and outside. Red flags were all over the place.
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