Comments Thread For: Mikey Garcia, Top Rank Legal Battle Has No End in Sight

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

Shoulda just fought til his contract ended. Why can't he just pay arum to *** off?

He can't afford it. He blew his load on a Viper... what an idiot.

[Bigg Rigg]

Mikey thinks he's a superstar and wants to be paid like one. He's wilding.

[BOXEO _]

Dude's gonna come back at 140 and get smoked. He flushed his career down the toilet when he decided to sue his promotional company, smh.

[wiz1030]

a lot of you guys complaining about Mikey must not realize that he really doesn't have the passion for boxing like other pros. he's admitted he does it because he's so good and would probably just be a police officer if he hadn't taken up the sport.

doesn't make sense to urge a guy back into the ring, if he just doesn't have the passion for it. especially under terms he feels are unfit for him, hence the lawsuit against Top Rank.

in short, just keep in mind we're talking about a guy who really isn't dying to get back in the ring

[doninlouisiana]

Even before all of these problems started Garcia was asking huge amounts of money for his fights, he was thinking he wanted Mayweather or Pacquiao money and he was just not there yet. It is a shame because he is so young and talented that those purses were coming sooner rather than later. He needs to get back in the ring and finish his deal with Arum and move on to greener pastures.

[Loque-san]

So Bob DOESNT have a track record of short changing his fighters?

I said Bob isn't to blame THIS TIME. Mikey has been treated more than fairly by Top Rank. As I said, he was getting paid very well for his showcase fights. If I remember correctly he made $750.000 against Burgos and was offered between $1 and 1.5 Million for a Gamboa fight. If anything, he was overpaid.

[Redd Foxx]

What a shame. Gotta shake my head at the fools in this thread who can't see the natural talent Mikey has. They can't really criticize his accomplishments so they have to speculate on what might happen.
Hope he doesn't fade while he's on the shelf because it's not often that we get guys with his skill in the game and there's only a handful of them out there right now.

[brickcityboxing]

In This Thread:

Mikey leave Top rank?

Manny with Top Rank.. Manny good

Top Rank Good if Manny with Top Rank.

Why Mikey Leave?

Floyd leave Top Rank.. Floyd bad

Mikey leave Top Rank... Mikey bad?

[FelipeB]

U happy now mikey? All because u didn't wanna fight gamboa

[Bronx2245]

Every few months a big name leaves or tries to leave Top Rank.

I don't really know what's going on over there but I do believe that there's no smoke without fire.

Fighters are smarter and more financially conscious now, the days of them signing bad deals coz they know no better are over. We all know that with the TV networks playing as big a part as they now do & the power of social media promoters aren't needed as much they were.

Top Rank & Golden Boy need to wake up and smell the coffee...its a new day. All they have is their relationship with HBO otherwise theyd be a lot worse off right now

If they don't switch up their act they're gonna lose everyone to Haymon & RocNation --- they pay a lot better

The sad part of this is what the "so-called" fans think. The "so-called" boxing fans don't care what promoters did to Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali, and Joe Frazier. The "so-called" boxing fans can watch Mike Tyson's One Man Stand, and still forgive Don King, because Don King always brought them "Great Fights!" What's worse, they hate Oscar, Floyd, Cotto, Gamboa, Rigo, Chavez Jr., and now Mikey Garcia! The "so-called" boxing fans will turn a blind -eye to the slavemaster, as long as they get some "action-packed" fights on the plantation:

One of the oldest sayings in boxing, the first warning every aspiring fighter hears long before they've ever entered a ring, is that the most dangerous punch, the one to fear most, is the one you never see coming. While the cliché is certainly true at the start of a career, it rarely holds up toward the end. This is because almost none of the great fighters in history ever stopped after that punch ***8212; and the history of the sport suggests that few can ever escape it. Pacquiao, despite earning a reported $174 million since 2009 from boxing and endorsements deals, is no different.

Why? Because, of course, boxing's not so well kept dirty secret is that, financially, most fighters can never stop. No matter how outlandish a fortune they've earned inside the ring and out, most greats not only never get ahead, few can even manage getting out from under. They never put much distance between themselves and where they came from. With few exceptions, they all end up desperately needing one more payday. And then another. And then another. Most are forced to hang around so long their endings are consummated by the uglier, more sinister punch that they all saw coming a mile away. Joe Louis, at 37 years old, was never blindsided by the physical punches that Rocky Marciano landed to knock him helplessly out of the ring and the sport. No, the punch he never saw coming and what set him up for Marciano's right hand was debt ***8212; in his case, to the government. Louis owed the IRS $500,000 and had nowhere else to go and get it but back into the ring.

Nearly all the greats were forced to stick around for those last final beatings, the ones that did lasting damage to their souls as much as their brains. If "protect yourself at all times" is boxing's most vital rule to obey, surely the most devastating blow in the sport is the one you do see coming, the one you're simply helpless to escape its impact.

Why is it so many of boxing's greatest heroes ***8212; Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson ***8212; were forced to stare down this last tragic fate and await their inevitable descent into boxing's latest cautionary tale? In the so-called "red light district of sports," the only jungle where, as Don King's biographer Jack Newfield once pointed out, "the lions are afraid of the ****," why can so few great fighters walk away undamaged with any money in their pocket?

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