Praise Rod Salka For His Courage Here

[Weebler I]

There's courage and then there's ******ity, exchanging with your opponent who is a big puncher while you're hurt and you know you have no power : that's ******ity.

I would imagine he wasn't exactly thinking straight at that point in the fight.

You're not wrong about the power though, I checked his boxrec, his KO % is 13% - and that's at Feather and Lightweight.

Horrible match-up.

[Dean_Razorback]

i hope he is ok

[Light_Speed]

He still has courage for getting in there with someone 2 divisions bigger and ranked 77 places higher.

Courage for accepting the biggest payday of his career?

[White_Knight]

Courage for accepting the biggest payday of his career?

He got paid less than a 50th of what Floyd does but fought twice as courageously.

[Dean_Razorback]

Courage for accepting the biggest payday of his career?

how much did salka get for this?

[Porter's Dad]

I just hope he is OK.

I know we love KOs in boxing but only when it's between competitive opponents. Tonight was just a way for Haymon to get Danny some easy money.

I know you can view all of boxing through that cynical prism.

But tonight wasn't boxing to me. That's not the sport I love. That's a distortion of my beloved sport, being taken to it's most cynical, exploitative extreme.

[j.one]

This fight was a disgrace, Garcia should actually go down in the rankings for fighting such an over classed fighter at a catch weight. I don't see how anything was gained for Garcia other than a paycheck. Manny will likely do this same **** in his next fight. It's disgraceful flat out.

[boliodogs]

Salka fought bravely to the best of his ability. He just did not belong in the same ring with the champ and this fight should never have been made. That's not Salka's fault. For some unknown reason he was offered a chance for a good payday and a chance to fight one of the best fighters in the world and took that chance. I don't blame Salka but I blame everyone who put this garbage fight on Showtime. As a paid subscriber to Showtime I think I deserve better, more evenly matched fights than the three one sided mismatches I endured tonight.

[W1LL]

He can go back into the darkness, with his pockets full of banknotes, never to be seen or heard from again.

[RA-Box]

Salka represented himself with honour in this fight. He had many chances to easily bow-out during the fight and collect his pay.

Instead he fought to the bitter end which really highlighted what a farce this fight was to begin with.

Very honourable and courageous.