Comments Thread For: Garcia Takes Step To Become Puerto Rico's Next Star

[Babalu11]

He has to speak more Spanish for sure..or at least try it so people can like him..if he has a translator by his side all the time it won't help. ODLH, Cain Velasquez, Macho Camacho, Selena..all of them interacted with the hispanic communities and with it's heritage country.

[PRPOWERPUNCHES]

Yeah thing with Benitez too is whiie he was born in NY, he was raised in PR and already living there by the time he turned pro. Plus he was also "taught" to NOT speak English (or even learn it), which I always found to be ignorant of his father, but that was supposed to keep him true Boricua and not be regarded as a gringo... although the latter cost him millions (or at least hundreds of thousands) in supplemental sponsorship income.

Cotto speaks the Queens English (thou not great) but speaks English and I don't see him making Millions or even Hundreds of Thousands of dollars with anybody in any supplemental sponsorship. Tito didn't speak English & I doubt
he would've gotten any sponsorships if he did. Boxing is'nt a mainstream sport and I don't see Coca Cola, Pepsi or Wheaties looking to hire professional Boxers to be put in there commercials or cans or on their boxes.
I just don't see it..

[Bigg Rigg]

Go live in Puerto Rico Danny Garcia and take up citizenship there. If you're born in America - you're an American. If you don't want to embrace that, then go move somewhere else. I might as well call myself English because my roots are from there. That's the problem with this country everyone wants to be from somewhere else - there's no unity.

well, there's a lot of people here of different ethnicties. Are your parents English born??

The dude doesn't even speak Spanish so how can Puerto Rico fully embrace him? They won't do it

Bro, how u talking about what we will or won't do??? We are running with Danny, that's it bro. Deal with it!

[SlySlickSmooth]

He spoke some Spanish at the end. Clip from the prefight conference



I don't know the translation, something like.. his heart and hes a boricua. Somebody who speaks Spanish can translate.

[Bigg Rigg]

He spoke some Spanish at the end. Clip from the prefight conference



I don't know the translation, something like.. his heart and hes a boricua. Somebody who speaks Spanish can translate.

He said he doesn't speak a lot spanish but his heart is pure Boricua like the coqui

[Ham Porter]

True story....I was talking to a friend of mine a few months ago who's a straight up casual fan...don't know a jab from hook....he said "yo you was right about that Rican kid"....I don't know how anyone can deny him his Ricaness ....for real though, Swift is Rican and I'm glad that most Ricans here see him as one of their own...some people just like to make issues outta non issues....his veins got that Boricua blood flowing through....that's all that really matters

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Prime example of what spazzing out means.

[MrRolltide91]

He's just expanding his fanbase

[Dice]

Cotto speaks the Queens English (thou not great) but speaks English and I don't see him making Millions or even Hundreds of Thousands of dollars with anybody in any supplemental sponsorship. Tito didn't speak English & I doubt
he would've gotten any sponsorships if he did. Boxing is'nt a mainstream sport and I don't see Coca Cola, Pepsi or Wheaties looking to hire professional Boxers to be put in there commercials or cans or on their boxes.
I just don't see it..

Cotto has or at least had a sponsorship with american colthing company Ecko Ulimited


Theres nothing with learning another language. Im American but im not gonna speak english in DR no matter how american my spanish sounds.

And let Danny Garcia eat PR shine though hin

[Tomasio]

¿Next star from Puerto Rico? NO WAY! First of all he's NOT from here(Puerto Rico)..Even thou Danny García is of Puerto Rican descent, he's NOT from Puerto Rico, Danny was born & raised & still lives in Philadelphia P.A.(u.s.) & that's from where he's from & that's who he represents.Lol! He doesn't even speak Spanish! He'll try to say something, but's it's really bad & very hard to understand, I've met caucasians from the u.s & africanamericans that actually know spanish..The last time Danny was in Puerto Rico was 4 years ago when he was 18-0 & they(Danny & his father) were both interviewed & Danny's father said(in spanish or more like "Spanglish") "that he(Danny's father) was born in Naguabo, P.R. & for that matter Danny has Puerto Rican blood in him, but he's was born in Philadelphia & makes him first from Philadelphia & we are all from Philadephia cause that's where we live & that's where Danny was raised".Now all of a sudden since thay are fighting in P.R Danny wants to make it seem like he's "El más Boricua" when it's all actually a bunch of "B U L L S H I T", just because he waves a P.R. flag once in a while(basically only ay some Puerto Rican parade in the states) & has one painted on the wall of his gym does NOT make him from here, he could be proud of his heritage, but that's as far as it's goes.& just to prove my point that he's a "Fake a Rican" in his last fight against Matthysse in the post fight interview he dedicated the victory to his people from Philly(like he should, since that's where he's from) to all the "Latino" & ESPECIALLY TO THE "MEXICANS"! & DID NOT MENTION AT ALL the Puerto Ricans he claims to now represent..Even if he did mention us, that still would have not made him from here, cause like I said before, he's NOT! If waiving a flag or fighting here would make him from here, Don King(who's was always waiving our flag when he had Trinidad) would be Rican & Azuma Nelson(who defended his title here twice) & Ali(who also fought here) would be Ricans.As of now, We still DON'T have a world champ & hopefully soon one of our REAL BORICUA fighters will win a title & PROPERLY represent us..

[Tomasio]

He said he doesn't speak a lot spanish but his heart is pure Boricua like the coqui

¿Your being sarcastic, right? Cause there's no way one could consider that spanish! That's some Philarican dialect..