Comments Thread For: Mikey Garcia: I Wouldn't Sign With Golden Boy to Get Cotto Fight

[Golden Boi 360]

so fight only came by signing to gb. not bad but im doing better on my own.

— Team Mikey Garcia (@mikeygarcia) October 9, 2017

why not cotto only and no further commitment? @steveucnlive

— Team Mikey Garcia (@mikeygarcia) October 9, 2017

[FeFist]

That's not how businesses works. I sympathise with fighters when politics get in the way of competitive fights but what he's angling at is a cash grab.

At this point, Cotto means nothing to Garcia competitively. It is purely a business move so there is no wrong in gbp treating it like business.

[xvG-MONEYvx]

Exactly. Couldn't have said it better.

[Mammoth]

So he should fight Easter instead

[NEETzsche]

Doesn't sound promising for Garcia vs Linares either, then

[Boxing42]

Easter it is then, I honestly want to see mikey vs figueroa just because I'm bloodthirsty

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

Oscar is one of the worst promoters rite now. Him and Kathy Duva. He fućked up the GGG-Canelo fight by marinating and being a ****** promoter. He basically ran the 4+million people who paid for May/Mac off and told them that they were ******.

This is always going to be a great gem to drop.


Golden Boy has no background in boxing,” Arum told the paper. “They rely on Oscar, who’s a dummy. Oscar is one of the ******est guys I’ve ever met. I’m just saying what it is. The guy is really not smart. Forget just ‘not smart.’ He’s not just even average.”

[MasterPlan]

Doesn't sound promising for Garcia vs Linares either, then

This is a mandatory, totally different situation.

[HanzGruber]

oscar turning into bob more each day

[Scipio2009]

That's not how businesses works. I sympathise with fighters when politics get in the way of competitive fights but what he's angling at is a cash grab.

At this point, Cotto means nothing to Garcia competitively. It is purely a business move so there is no wrong in gbp treating it like business.

Except that it's a cash grab for Golden Boy too.

Cotto is on his way out; he's still a draw in NYC, but Sadam Ali isn't going to make it an event.

Mikey Garcia would've; Mexican vs Puerto Rican, a big 135lber vs a solid 154lber, both fighters with strong profiles in NYC, and a high-skills fight regardless of size.

Cotto will get whatever is owed to him, and Ali won't come for a steep price, but Cotto-Garcia may have been twice the fight.