Comments Thread For: Mikey Garcia’s Trainer: Mikey Wants to Unify the Titles

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Quack quack

Fight gamboa and quit ducking......

[Bigg Rigg]

Thats what happens when you double cross Arum and sign with Fiddy,

LMAOOOOOOO

Bob threw Mikey under the bus though. Lol

[Bigg Rigg]

I seriously wonder if I ever go into denial mode like this. lol The Steve Kim article and the Boxingscene article, where Arum is quoted as saying HBO wasn't interested in any other fight but Gamboa, are pretty hard to dismiss. Team Garcia ducked Gamboa.

Bro, u know what's up. I know what's up. Cats can front all they want. I wouldn't make myself look dumb though trying to defend a fighter.

[racostaa]

Link, please.

I'll wait

You are right. This Bob Arum about Mickey precing hi himself out probably is unfounded, but what is known is that Mickey said in an interview that was Gamboa the one who asked too much money while he knew this was a lie. This Mickey mouse is a coward chicken saying lies about Gamboa as excuses not to fight because he knows Gamboa will make him loose. LEts see is some day he start to act like a champion and fight without excuses and lying about others

[racostaa]

Some years ago, when cuban boxers were rare, my favorites was the mexicans champions. They were famous for being braves. But lately im confuse with this opinion because today generation of mexicans champions, with exceptions, seems to duck every fight with challenge and mostly if they have to face a cuban. We must analyze the pique and see what have change because this ducking mode they have is not normal.

[BendOver]

In fairness to Garcia, they have, with the exception of Lopez, stepping up his competition each fight. Barros was a former titleholder. Then Salido was one of the best fighters at 126. Then, Rocky Martinez was a top ten 130lber in Garcia's first fight at the weight class. Then Burgos was an even better 130lber with very solid skills and difficult physical attributes. His style (tall, rangy, fast, and powerful mover who throws a lot of punches, has solid outside boxing skills, and very good inside boxing skills) is a tough matchup for a shorter counterpuncher. I don't think unifying with Uchiyama and establishing a lineal 130 lb champion qualifies as ducking. It would be a significant step up in competition for Garcia. Uchiyama is a very dangerous fighter. After Uchiyama, I'd want Garcia to either unify further at 130 or fight Gamboa.

I'm going to tell you why is a duck, he refuse to fight him at 126 when he was the mandatory to Gamboas belt, and he is coming with a lot of excuses now, he was confronted in the ring, in twitter, facebook, venus network, jupiter stream, everywhere, and the most significant thing is that he lied, he say Gamboa was pricing himself out and it wasn't true, he is ducking Gamboa for the second time, can you see a pattern here?

[BendOver]

In fairness to Garcia, they have, with the exception of Lopez, stepping up his competition each fight. Barros was a former titleholder. Then Salido was one of the best fighters at 126. Then, Rocky Martinez was a top ten 130lber in Garcia's first fight at the weight class. Then Burgos was an even better 130lber with very solid skills and difficult physical attributes. His style (tall, rangy, fast, and powerful mover who throws a lot of punches, has solid outside boxing skills, and very good inside boxing skills) is a tough matchup for a shorter counterpuncher. I don't think unifying with Uchiyama and establishing a lineal 130 lb champion qualifies as ducking. It would be a significant step up in competition for Garcia. Uchiyama is a very dangerous fighter. After Uchiyama, I'd want Garcia to either unify further at 130 or fight Gamboa.

I double posted...

[racostaa]

I'm going to tell you why is a duck, he refuse to fight him at 126 when he was the mandatory to Gamboas belt, and he is coming with a lot of excuses now, he was confronted in the ring, in twitter, facebook, venus network, jupiter stream, everywhere, and the most significant thing is that he lied, he say Gamboa was pricing himself out and it wasn't true, he is ducking Gamboa for the second time, can you see a pattern here?

please, let me add to your arguments that mickey mouse lasts fights were with bums like juanma or burgos who are by far lower opponents in comparison with gamboa who btw is undefeated. Also hbo said they want only gamboa's fight. So there is plenty evidence seems to point that mickey mouse is afraid of gamboa.

[BendOver]

You're going to have to point out when Garcia was Gamboa's mandatory, because I didn't follow boxing back then. Thing is, even if Garcia doesn't want to fight Gamboa, how is that a duck? It's not like Gamboa is his mandatory, or even in his weight class. It's just a big money fight that Gamboa is desperate for. If Garcia really wants to unify the titles, then that would explain why he doesn't want to fight Gamboa.

It is a duck because is the bigger fight you can make at 130LBS, is the one that is going to pay mickey the most, not Gamboa, he already stated that he will get what was offered (500K) and after he whoops his a$$ mickey will take the pay cut in the rematch if he wants to do it again, and garcia is on record saying he wasn't ready for Gamboa when he was the IBF mandatory when the Cuban was the Champ at 126... No matter how you put it, it is a duck, if you add up the time that robert went bersek after someone ask him why he was afraid of Gamboa, then it will be clear to you.

[CubanGuyNYC]

Gamboa doesn't even fight at 130 lbs. And Garcia probably wasn't ready at the time. Garcia, despite having won an IBF eliminator, was still a prospect at that point. It seems pretty reasonable that he wouldn't have wanted to fight Gamboa at the time. It does seem, based on what you guys have said and what I've read, that Garcia doesn't want to fight Gamboa, I'll give you that. But considering who he's probably going to fight instead of Gamboa, and given Gamboa's current status, it's hardly a duck. It's Garcia taking on a more relevant, arguably more dangerous, top fighter who actually fights in the same division as him.

Sure he does. Gamboa fought that one fight at 135, a weight he doesn't even belong at. Yuri is willing to fight at either 130 or 135. It's like Mayweather; he fights at 154, but he's really a 147 lb fighter.

Uchiyama is a good fight, but practically everyone would prefer to see Gamboa-Garcia. It would also make Mikey more money. If Yuri is the easier fight, what's the problem?