The mandatory "wtf is going on with Mikey Garcia" thread.

[Eff Pandas]

I kinda know about this situation and I'll speak on it a lil.

Garcia was upset with Top Rank lying to him about purses/money for the Gamboa fight, and that where the problem stemmed from and grew from. Fast forward a bit and Garcia decided he wanted out of his contract and Top Rank/Arum was putting Garcia on ice for a bit to teach him a lesson and during this time Garcia and his lawyers have sent several official offers to Top Rank which they declined. Fast forward some more and now Top Rank wants to resolve this cause it date in court is coming up and it will get resolved that way so Top Rank basically sent Garcia the same offer he sent them to settle this a year ago, so Garcia said why bother he already gone this long might as well see it all the way to the end. So thats where its all now, this issue will not get settled out of court, Mikey Garcia is going to see it to the end.

This is basically what I've heard.

Probably in Garcia's best interest to just bite the bullet & agree to TR's offer. Thats more in his best interest than waiting 4, 6 or however many more months this could last when he's already been setting for 21 months.

[FrankieClutch]

This is basically what I've heard.

Probably in Garcia's best interest to just bite the bullet & agree to TR's offer. Thats more in his best interest than waiting 4, 6 or however many more months this could last when he's already been setting for 21 months.

Agreed. Doesn't he only have like 3 fights left on that contract?

[Chrismart]

It's a shame for him as he was building up good momentum with several good wins.

I wonder what weight he will fight at when he returns.

[PK3434]

He got horrible advice and I saw a video last year where Arum implied that Haymon was paying for Mikey's lawyers.

If Mikey just fought he could probably be out of his contract already...but he is just a guy that doesn't really love boxing, so he would rather fight it out in court and make money as a sparring partner.

[FrankieClutch]

It's a shame for him as he was building up good momentum with several good wins.

I wonder what weight he will fight at when he returns.

No kidding. Supposedly 140

[Syf]

Amazing how many guys while away their primes messing around with promoters

[SlySlickSmooth]

Mikey is wasting his talent, I was a huge supporter prior to his legal shenanigans. Great boxer-puncher with solid power.

Last I read was about him returning at Light Welterweight possibly I believe.

[Chrismart]

No kidding. Supposedly 140

140, interesting. Thanks mate :ANYWORD:

[Deevel916]

http://www.*************.com/columns...-garcia-fight/


Garcia, on the other hand, hasn’t showed the same “do or die” spirit in the ring.

In a fight where he was utterly dominating against Orland Salido (he had scored four knockdowns), Garcia quit when he suffered a broken nose as the result of an accidental head butt.

A broken nose ending a fight … in boxing? It made you wonder what would happen if Garcia was truly pushed in a grueling fight.

Perhaps that’s the reason Garcia is sitting on the sidelines and beefing with his manager and promoter? It certainly isn’t because they haven’t treated him fairly. Garcia is a regular on HBO, where he has received high six-figure paychecks to fight a reasonable class of opponents. What more could he possibly expect, given the fact that he is not a mainstream star and competes in the lighter weight divisions?

Top Rank was even talking about Garcia fighting Manny Pacquiao in the next couple years: a clear indication that they have bigger plans for him. Yet, he’s fought just once in 2013 in a lackluster performance against the veteran Juan Carlos Burgos. Garcia, like so many fighters recently, apparently thinks he should be paid more to do less.

It’s never pleasant when the top fighters in boxing fight mediocre opposition. It’s an insult to the fans and a waste of valuable and scarce airtime. But you know it’s a truly precarious state of affairs when the top fighters in the sport just don’t want to fight: that they’d rather not get paid at all than to not get exactly what they want.

In a system with virtually no safeguards like boxing, these kinds of trends can be a slippery slope. Hopefully after a year of low ratings and rancid PPV numbers, some of these guys will clue in that it’s quality that creates coin and not crap.

[aldo5408]

Agreed. Doesn't he only have like 3 fights left on that contract?

No he has more. Arum makes fighters extend contracts in return for fights like remember with chavez jr he wanted more fights out of him in return for having him fight giggi