Ryan Garcia To Meet With Golden Boy, Discuss Future

By Steve Kim

While lightweight hopeful Ryan Garcia improved to 16-0 (13 KO's) by out-pointing Carlos Morales over ten rounds last weekend at the Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio, California, he didn't exactly play to rave reviews.

"It's a delicate thing, he's a young kid but he still needs a lot of work, a lot to learn," said the president of Golden Boy Promotions, Eric Gomez, to BoxingScene.com.

"But there's also a lot of talent there to work with. So it's a delicate balance. We're going to have meetings with them, they're going to be in Las Vegas next week so we're going to sit down with them, get a better understanding of exactly how camp went and just give them ideas and plans."

The 20-year old Garcia has built a prodigious social media following but his most recent outings have shown that he has a long way to go from being ready for the world class. Many believe that he needs to retain the services of a veteran trainer.

But Gomez notes - "For a promoter it's very hard to get involved with trainers. We never do that, we never force anyone to have a certain trainer but if they come and ask for advice, we'll give them advice."

As for perhaps pulling back on the pace of his career and being a bit less ambitious with the matchmaking, Gomez stated - "I think we're getting him the right fights. These are guys that are not easy. Carlos Morales is a tough guy, he almost beat Albert Machado, the champion, in Puerto Rico. Dropped him twice,  I believe, and that's probably Machado's toughest fight. Machado became a lot better from that fight. We're hoping the same thing going to happen with Ryan."

In regards to his next bout, Gomez told Boxingscene.com, "He will fight at least once more before the end of the year, hopefully twice."

Steve Kim is the news editor for BoxingScene.com.