Comments Thread For: Golden Boy VP Seeks to Justify Garcia-Salka Mismatch

[rasdun]

Love it. at least some people speak up to problems with this sport. it's a great sport that I love, but there's so many problems

[The Tase]

got damn that taco vendor got ETHERED LMFAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO


That conversation looked like a battle between a religious ****** and squealpiggy

looooooooooooooooool

[Inkanyamba]

got damn that taco vendor got ETHERED LMFAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO


That conversation looked like a battle between a religious ****** and squealpiggy

looooooooooooooooool

Wow, aren't you the guy who's been following me around calling me a racist? Taco vendor eh?

[The Tase]

Wow, aren't you the guy who's been following me around calling me a racist? Taco vendor eh?

because he was a taco vendor. before oscar made it and gomez rode his coattails, that's what he was doing.

[manoamano]

You all are wrong. The only thing GBP is to blame is that Eric Gomez didn't do his job- Haymon did it for him. Gomez just sat back and got paid! Oscar should oversee the match making and give fans quality not quantity!

The real problem is that the US is not producing quality fighters and this was very clear in the last Olympics. This is direct result of USA Boxing's current incompetent judging, under train referees and inexperienced coaches. If you're in amateur boxing you can see how bias the judging is. A lot of times the winner is picked by who his coach is or by the boxer's popularity. A lot of boxer climb the amateur ranks and become professional prospects that the promoters jump the gun to sign them with no professional record or very little pro fights. For example Frankie Gomez and Jose Benavides Jr., among others. We can expect a wave of talented fighters coming from other countries. To add add to the injury, promoters and business advisors protect these fighters that are merely entertainment fighters/championship and the sell them to TV networks as cream of the crop! So quite frankly these guys are playing boxing!

[jsmith_tsu]

Whole card ****** last nite. I enjoyed the sho extreme fights better. Dozed of during stretches. I watch as much boxing as I can but if wouldn't be too upset missing that trash in retrospect.

Atleast we know Gomes works for GBP and his doing his job.I cant understand people defending HBO, Danny Garcia or anybody that had nething to do with that card.

Too many damn factions on boxingscene instead of boxing fans. Im started to think some of these cats work for the people they are defending right or wrong. The only explanation I can come up with.

[gbonafide]

Golovkin and Kovalev still have a lot to prove, but don't be disingenuous. These fighters have been destroying every fighter willing to get in the ring with them. Danny Garcia hasn't been doing that.

He also fought guys like Christopher Fernandez, Mike Arnaoutis and John Figueroa after his 16th fight.

Don't get me wrong. Danny is a talented fighter, and he has some decent names on his resume. Some of the wins over those names are more impressive than others (i.e. Amir Khan versus a washed up Erik Morales) but his biggest fights did not produce dominant victories. A past-his-prime Zab Judah gave Garcia a run for his money. Danny beat Matthysse, but a lot of people ignore the fact that the fight was close. Heck, all of the scorecards in that fight were closer than two of the scorecards for Mayweather-Maidana. And then we have Mauricio Herrera, who most ringside observers (and people with two functioning eyes) believe beat Garcia.

It's easy for Garcia and his ride-or-die fans to keep beating the "he cleaned out the division" and "he has nothing else to prove" drum, but that doesn't make these statements true. If Garcia wants to be taken seriously, he needs to step up. Last night's fight was an embarrassment to the sport and I can't understand how a pound-for-pound contender could allow himself to be part of such a travesty.

Ultimately, it's a fighter's responsibility to demand the best opponents and most compelling fights. Based on his interview after last night's circus, it instead appears to me that Danny is content to take whatever fights his team makes and pretend that every victory is the same, regardless of how it comes and who it is against. This strategy might allow Danny to obtain and keep belts, but as far as I'm concerned it doesn't make him a legitimate champion.

Really great unbiased post. I second that green K. Angel always makes a point that Danny's the champion but fighting an undersized unranked dude at 142 is not the behavior of a champion. It was obvious that Peterson, Broner and Garcia all went through a media relations training session because they all spoke the same "Boxing is a business" b.s. when asked about facing each other instead of saying "Danny's a friend, but he's got what I want and I'm coming for him."

[Weebler I]

Lmao. Haymon has these pawns trained.

Isn't Gomes Oscar's match-maker? I doubt he's defending Haymon, he just the only GBP guy there to carry the can.

[pesticid]

I love the interviewer - David Griessman I believe. That's a man right there, he's not a groupie, he's not worried about job security, he's worried about journalism and integrity.

Damn I wish more people covering boxing would have 1/10th of the courage and ethical fibre that this guy displayed here.

[-PBP-]

Isn't Gomes Oscar's match-maker? I doubt he's defending Haymon, he just the only GBP guy there to carry the can.

Yeah but Uncle Al made these fights and these pawns are forced to defend it.