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

[AddiX]

Mikeys career path is depressing. He's not a dumb guy like most fighters, but he took some terrible advice.

[MisanthropicNY]

LOL @ De La Hoya using the same tactics he criticized Arum for... I love how people pretended they are holier than thou when not in the position. For example, slavery was bad, but every Black person would have been happy to be a slave owner back then.

[Kigali]

LOL @ De La Hoya using the same tactics he criticized Arum for... I love how people pretended they are holier than thou when not in the position. For example, slavery was bad, but every Black person would have been happy to be a slave owner back then.

The same why you illegals claim the White man stole your land....then you suck their asses the first chance you get

[Shadoww702]

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.

He still ***ed Cotto and his fans over though. Mexican vs. PR would of been a hell of a last show for his fans.

[Raonic]

Lol why would they give you all that money so you can walk away right after. Promoters make their money over a longer term commitment.

No blame on anyone really. I don't blame Mikey for rejecting or GBP for only offering a multi fight contract. But not sure why Mikey making it seem like GBP is the bad guys here.

[Shadoww702]

Mikey Garcia owed Top Rank one fight, and that ended up costing him two years; no sense in falling into the same trap again.

Mikey's not Saul Alvarez or anything, but he's known throughout the boxing world has shown that he can sell tickets on the East Coast, and will sell a lot of tickets when he finally headlines his return to SoCal. You add that Showtime is clearly interested in airing his fights and it's not like Mikey is scraping for opportunity.

Linares is basically in a position where he's either fighting Mikey Garcia on US TV, or fighting someone else off of US TV.

Maybe they parlay Ali into something.

This!!! He ain't falling for that BS again. And then when he's on his last fight with GB??? **POOF** Extension or sit your ass back down.

[Kigali]

Mikeys career path is depressing. He's not a dumb guy like most fighters, but he took some terrible advice.

Sure he is....he dumb as a 5 week old Donkey.

[Street]

Cotto vs Garcia will sell good but Cotto calls the shots in who he fights regardless of who is promoting him. Therefore this fight isn't happening because I seriously doubt Cotto's commitment in wanting to get destroyed by Mikey

[Bda31175]

You ****** mother****er you don't accomplish everything Oscar has by not being smart! You should know that Arum is still bitter at Oscar cause he's the first fighter under Top Rank to take Top Rank to court to
break free from their contract and venture on their own. He paved the way for Mayweather and Mikey Garcia to break free from Top Rank and promote themselves or in Mikey's case call the shots when it comes to his own career. So stop being a hating ass, ****** ass mother****er and realize Oscar is far from dumb!
Last I checked the 1.3 million ppv's Canelo-Triple g sold is still 1.3 million. No other 27 year old A side fighter has ever sold that many ppv's at such a young age. Not even your hero Mayweather. So quit being ****** and stop hating on Oscar cause last I checked he's still a multi millionare.... Are you??? B ITCH!

Well that escalated quickly.

[MisanthropicNY]

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.

Do you like business moves when they involve Arum and Don King too?