Comments Thread For: Garcia vs. Malignaggi Finalized For 8/1 At Barclays

[Overhandrite71]

overhandrite 71

When Danny beat matthysse, I was high on him, I thought he would be in that p4p category. I'm not to confident in Danny's abilities now, Herrera and Peterson schooled him. Paulie will do the same because Danny fights the same way, every time. He never had a plan B. His conditioning is suspect and I think he should get brother ****m on his team. His dad is good but they're limited. I'm not sure he could stay undefeated, with his dad as lead trainer.

[elishua F]

ggg can fight monroe but danny cant fight paulie .. hypocrisy. . funny thing is paulie is more than capable of boxing his ears off..stick and move marathon

[Heavyfist]

Haymon is wasting a prime time PBC date on this garbage? No wonder PBC only loses money.

Garcia should be ashamed. Hopefully he is killed soon.

[Scipio2009]

Am I the only one who finds this fight okish?

First genuine 147 fight for Garcia, introduce him to the big boys.

You're not, but the cool thing to do on this site is trash anything PBC, so there's that.

Malignaggi has enough boxing craft to give any fighter utter hell, Barclays Center is establishing itself as a premier venue for the sport, and ESPN seems to be pretty excited about featuring another one of the budding young stars in Haymon's fold.

Only way the fight doesn't deliver is is Paulie arrives with literally nothing left in him.

[LA_2_Vegas]

Ok well since it's ESPN PBC it's not that bad - I don't think much of the fight, but I was hoping that it wasn't going to be NBC and it's not - that's good thinking from Haymon IMO. I sort of like the idea of having a named fighter on ESPN in a marginal fight as long as said fighter is keeping active (which so far they have now that PBC is in motion). Thurman and Garcia on ESPN, sounds cool.

As far as the fight itself, I don't see Paulie's style of stick and move to be the one to bother Garcia. I think one of the keys to confusing DAnny is to come in low. Herrera is very good at coming in low behind his accurate jab - Peterson we know can fight a little on the outside...and also get in his crouch and creep forward, - Theopane is awkward...all these guys kept Garcia guessing. I don't think Paulie has that element these days.

Paulie has a good jab and can move like people are pointing out, but he is very rigid in his upperbody these days...I don't see the entry point for him for him offensively, and defensively I think his head will be there in the plane that Garcia's hook travels through.

[AddiX]

I'm not defending this as a real good fight by any means, I hate both of these clowns.

But this is still a WAY better fight than what were use to on Friday on ESPN.

Quit crying. And lets be serious, Danny lost to Lamont and Herrera, so how is Paulie a tuneup?

Danny is no Shawn Porter.

[KillaMane26]

Danny Garcia.....SMH has been a joke ever since he beat Lucas Mattysee...

[Scipio2009]

I just don't understand why Mayweather-Garcia wasn't pursued.

[warning: this is a blatant conspiracy theory] - Floyd Mayweather Jr(c) is fighting Kell Brook(c) to unify all of the belts at 147 in September (WBC will likely designate Floyd Mayweather Jr as champion emeritus for their WBC 154 belt, with the WBA following with a similar distinction for their 154 championship).

Floyd will likely win the fight (though Brook is a live opponent), and then vacate all of the belts as he heads into retirement [emeritus status, in case he ever decides that he wants to fight again]. From then, the four organizations would need to establish new champions:

WBC: Garcia vs Khan II
WBA: Thurman(c) vs Maidana
IBF: Brook vs Porter/Alexander
WBO: Sadam Ali vs Bradley/Vargas winner

Four new champions are established, they face off against whatever new challengers who emerge at the weight, before starting another unification cycle come 2016.

easily two years of exciting welterweight showdowns, driven forward by Mayweather ending his run by unifying the division (fights going forward would be about which one of the welterweight champions would be able to do, competitively, what Mayweather did as his final act).

[Scipio2009]

Or Danny could rematch Hererra or Matthysse both of whom are willing & these would be way way better fight than Paulie. But this is Danny Garcia we're talking about LOL.

The only thing legit about Malignaggi as of now is his lack of power, let's not forget he got KTFO'd in his last fight.

You have one of the only two actual shareholders in Golden Boy Promotions, the company that is trying another shakedown of Al Haymon, in your sig and you have the gall to continue forward with that ****.

[Scipio2009]

Garbage pure garbage. Paulie coming off a bad loss to Porter so what is the point of Garcia fighting him when he was demolished by khan and Porter? There is literally half a dozen better fights just in the Haymon stable for Garcia and half a dozen fights outside Haymon that you could match Garcia up with. They been scared to put Garcia in a real fight since Herrera took him to school. Haymon been making Garcia look like Beyotch going on 2 years now.

Please name these half dozen fights that could've been made for the ESPN dae in August, instead of this one for Danny Garcia