Comments Thread For: Ryan Garcia: Tank Will Be More Comfortable At 140; Has Had Problems Making Weight

[BoxingIsGreat]

Talk is cheap. Accept the offer and let's get it on! I can't wait to see you destroyed and fully maimed.

[BoxingIsGreat]

Garcia fails to recognise that the fighter who needs the fight most, makes the sacrifices. He needs this fight way more than Tank, so why should Tank giveway 5 pounds?

If that's your starting point to be transparent with your negotiations, it's a pretty poor start.

Good post.

Davis can fight at 140, for sure, because he's so skilled and powerful, but not for this guy. He's a seasoned lightweight. He's in no position to ask for anything. Gervonta will not accommodate him whatsoever. For what?

Oscar did not accommodate Floyd but he accommodated the Pacman. It's the right of the A-side.

[Outwest Exp 355]

Sounds like an opinion soooo
Send the link where Floyd has made that 135 or no fight statement

It’s on Fighthype so go there and listen to it if you want to hear it.

[Nightfall]

Cryan Garcia doesn't dictate sht and absolutely don't want that smoke

[tophat1]

Cant see tank and the PBC playing along with ryans plans. No way they will work with dazn on this fight either.

Fight just wont happen.

[greeneye99]

It’s on Fighthype so go there and listen to it if you want to hear it.

Thanks
I just watched it

[Oldskoolg]

Ryan’s starting to get annoying at this point. He’s overstating his position and his worth.

[Kiowhatta]

Before a phone has been dialed, a message sent, a pen raised we already have an impasse.

this fight will likely not happen, and Garcia, by refusing to move down to 135 which gives Tank a slightly better advantage at nullifying Garcias height and reach advantage is just as stubbornly refusing to try and make the fight.

The only way these types of fights get made are when both fighters are just focused on getting in the ring; this forces penny pinching promoters and platforms to fall in line as they are serving their clients.

But in these situations we will see both fighters merely use the attention to raise their profile, milk the attention, occasionally drop a hint to keep fans on the hook, but it won’t happen.

Everybody give a big round of applause to Al Haymon, PBC, and Floyd - TBDBOHGWRTBCPIAA ( The best defensive fighter of his generation who refined the business of cherry-picking Into an art form ).

Thanks to these greedy, detached and new generation of the Don King school of money first, fans and fighters a distant second, the health of the sport a mere footnote.

what is tragic is that we are experiencing a great boxing renaissance, more interest than a long time, a situation where there are multiple undisputed and unified champions: we are just a few fights away from this last 12 months being the greatest in along time- Crawford v Spence, Beterbiev v Bivol, García v Davis, A.J v Fury and sooo many more.

it speaks to the depth and talent in boxing that we can endure 4 slimy sanctioning bodies with their toy belts, yet their is still enough talent to make great fights!

if only there was a way to cut out the penny pinching-ego driven, cancerous en****** in sport, we would be going a long way to getting back to a sport where rather than ac9 month contract process about the colour of the gloves, who comes out first, who is allowed to have a beard etc-

we could go back to simply a fighter and his manager saying ‘I want that fight’ and a few weeks later it’s done.
And lastly a guy who earns the No 1 spot has a right to fight for the belt, not end up in court for 6 months only to fight three more times to hold on to his now ‘silver’ f*^king title three times.

I’m just repeating what we all know, but my hope is a senate commission will be set up to expose the openly flouted corruption of all the major players beginning with the ‘not for profit’ alphabet bodies, the promoters who actively work to ensure the best don’t fight the best - and restoring the amateur system to its rightful position.

what I don’t understand is if any other major sport in the U.S or U.K acted with such brazen impropriety there would be anti corruption boards working immediately to rectify the situation.

So what is preventing such a change? Have those in power given up on cleaning up the sport, or does the corruption spread so far and wide…

[Bronx2245]

"133.5" does not sound like a problem! The problem is Ryan trying to call shots! That will hurt Floyd's ego, and make matters even worse! It's looking more and more like Haney vs. Garcia @ 140, is the fight to make! Maybe Oscar and Arum can make it work? That won't be easy, but they have done more business than Oscar and Floyd!

[Bronx2245]

Good post.

Davis can fight at 140, for sure, because he's so skilled and powerful, but not for this guy. He's a seasoned lightweight. He's in no position to ask for anything. Gervonta will not accommodate him whatsoever. For what?

Oscar did not accommodate Floyd but he accommodated the Pacman. It's the right of the A-side.

All that is 100% Facts, but it's not helping Tank! Michel "Ali" Rivera, Issac "Pitbull" Cruz, and Frank Martin, are all good fighters, but they don't bring to the table what Loma, Haney, Garcia, and Teofimo do! None of those guys are coming to PBC, so what does Tank do? How does he get to Floyd's level?