Maidana to hunt, fish and then track down Danny Garcia

Marcos Maidana will continue to hunt and fish in his native Argentina before returning to the ring in the summer or fall, according to his manager, Sebastian Contursi. The big game rival Maidana (35-5, 31 knockouts) mentioned was undefeated RING junior welterweight champion Danny Garcia, (29-0, 17 KOs), owner of a unanimous decision victory over fellow Argentine Lucas Matthysse from Sept. 2013. “I don’t know how it came up but he did mention that he would want to fight Danny Garcia. But what he did say was, ‘I’d like to beat the guy who beat Lucas Matthysse,’ and that would be Danny Garcia. It’s nothing personal but I think that there has always been a rivalry between Maidana and Matthysse and not in the bitter sense,” said Contursi of Matthysse, THE RING’s No. 1-rated 140-pounder. “They’re not friends, necessarily, but they respect and admire each other and they started boxing together. But you can not avoid the fact that there is a rivalry out there and that’s the fact that pushes him to want to be the best fighter in Argentina, which I think that he is, myself. Of course, I guess that’s arguable. But when it comes to boxing, Maidana doesn’t talk much about opponents that he would like to face, it’s just that for the reasons that I mentioned, he wants to fight and beat Garcia.” This would be a very good first fight at 147 for Garcia, sink or swim for him. Hope it happens.