By Michael Marley

Some people close to the situation think that the ongoing blood feud between boxing trainers and brothers Robert and Danny Garcia can not be squashed.

They view it as an endless Cain versus Abel squabble, a fractious fraternal fight that will continue unabated for years if not decades.

Making it worse has been Robert's huge success, his making a small fortune in boxing while Danny has had to keep driving a Pepsi delivery truck while training fighters at night.

But Danny, who trained his brother when Robert was just age 13 and was an assistant to Papa Eduardo in the corner when Robert was IBF junior lightweight champion, says otherwise.

"Mainly, it's about my Mom and my Dad," Danny said. "My Mom would like to see things work out between me and Robert. It can happen."

Danny told me so, in a sincere manner on Wednesday afternoon before a Manhattan press conference for Saturday night's Vicious Victor Ortiz-Andre Berto WBC welterweight title bout. Ortiz-Berto takes place at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods in Connecticut.

Danny admitted that he never speaks to Robert, that their families steer clear of each other and that the whole telenovela style drama caused their parents to abandon hometown Oxnard, California, to relocate to Riverside.

Backdrop to the story is the bitter split and resulting rivalry between former Garden City, Kansas amateur hopefuls and both former pupils of Robert - Victor Ortiz and newly crowned lightweight champion Brandon "Bam Bam" Rios.

When Ortiz separated from Robert, Danny went with Victor. The two fighters even now toil for bickering promoters, the outspoken Rios for Bob Arum's Top Rank and Ortiz for Oscar De La Hoya's Golden Boy outfit.

Clearly, a price has been paid by both brothers and their parents.

"I still love Robert, I really do," Danny said. "He will always be my brother and he and my father are training another brother, Mikey, who is going to be a world champion also. I've been hurt by things said, not so much by Rios but by Robert.

"I was training my brother, along with my father, when Robert was age 13. Now my Dad trains Mikey and Robert, he takes all the credit for it.

"Robert said I don't know how to train fighters but he's always asking my father for a fight plan. Yes, Brandon is a world champion right now but he's not a very good champion and he won't last too long. It's Brandon who got my own brother to talk bad about me, so f**k him."

Mario Aguiniga, former amateur boxer from Oxnard who assists Danny in Ortiz's corner, blames Rios for much of the dispute.

"We were all together, all part of the same team, things were all good," Aguiniga said. "Look at Brandon, nobody knew him until he started always calling out Victor."

Eduardo Garcia, who used to blood his hands picking strawberries as a migrant workers built the legendary La Colonia Gym program in Oxnard, developing both Robert and world champ Ferocious Fernando Vargas.

Aguniga has only fond memories of fighting in the amateurs and being a key part of California's most vaunted boxing program.

"Papa Garcia would load up the van," Aguiniga said, "and we would take 12 fighters to some tournament. We would always win 10 or 11 of our bouts on the shows. The other fighters, the other trainers didn't call us La Colonia.

"They referred to us as Little Cuba."

Cuba, of course, has dominated Olympic and other world amateur boxing for decades.