By Ryan Burton
World class trainer Robert Garcia has been in the opposite corner of both Orlando Salido and Rocky Martinez when they faced his brother Mikey. Salido went down four times against Mikey and lost a technical decision. Martinez knocked Mikey down early in their fight but was stopped in 8 rounds.
Salido and Martinez will meet each other in the squared circle on Saturday night in Puerto Rico in a fight titled, "The War". Robert said that he originally felt that Salido would win but after talking with Mikey, he changed his mind.
"I think I have to go with Mikey," Garcia told BoxingScene.com. "Mikey said that Martinez is going to win. When I talked to him about it I thought that he was wrong but after I heard his explanation I think that I am leaning towards Martinez to win the fight as well. Salido has taken too many beatings. He went down so many times against Mikey and he went down many times when he won the title (versus Terdsak Kokietgym). He goes down easy. If Martinez is in great shape and catches him - he will drop him. I pick Martinez to win a close fight."
Salido-Martinez is available on pay-per-view on most cable and satellite outlets.
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