Comments Thread For: Mikey Garcia to Face Sergey Lipinets February 10 in San Antonio

[GhostofDempsey]

Mikey should be able to unify 140 now that Crawford has over up. This is a keep busy fight.

[Scipio2009]

Great move by Garcia, he is going to dominate the 140 division then ease his way up to the welterweight division, where the real real challenges and $ is at, Bob Arum and Golden Boy are frauds, no need to negotiate and fight their fighters and stay at 135. Happy for Mikey, great move

I think Mikey's move up to 147lbs will end up like Floyd's moves up to 154lbs; only for the right guy.

Same reason why I don't see Lomachenko going to 135lbs; skills are skills, but Robert Easter Jr is now standing there, with all of his 5'11 frame and another 16 months or so before his body forces the move up to 140lbs.

[Mister Wolf]

Gambia was inactive and had to jump up to a weight class that Crawford was bursting at the seems that's daring to be great now, . Pistol has 1 decent win over Lucas who has shown to always come up short in title fights. Crawford moved up to 140 when it became absolutely barren of talent and was the worst division in boxing. Yeah that's daring to be great. Lipinets would probably beat the Dog sh.it out of Postol who's fought 2 fights in 2 years and 5 in 4 years

I'm a Crawford fan but we don't know where he stands until he fights the best at 147 which given Top Ranks history probably won't happen

Mikey/ Lipinets is a better fight then Crawford / Indongo/Diaz/Molina/Lundy /Dulhorme /Postol.

Gamboa fought at 135 before Crawford and continued to do so afterward. You saying this Lipinets fight is better than any of Crawford's wins at 140 means we have nothing further to discuss.

[Mister Wolf]

Crawford was the king of 140, with every fighter basically having to come see him on his terms (Broner's name was big enough otherwise, and Omar Figueroa Jr being positioned as well as he was could've done different, but they'd have to see Crawford for the big fight), yet Crawford left all of that to head to 147lbs for the likely Horn fight and really nothing else.

Unless he was having real issues with the weight, the Crawford move doesn't make sense.

Mikey looked for the best opportunity and took it; from the rumors, he was weighing fights against two IBF champions, and chose to fight Lipinets as the headline act on Showtime Championship Boxing, with the next Showtime almost set against his co-feature (as long as the fight isn't a snoozer).

Hilarious to see folks act as if Lipinets is some tickover

It was stated by Atlas and others that Crawford was having a hard time making 140.

“I know that he was struggling to make 140,” Arum told BoxingScene. “He had really a big problem making it for the last fight with Indongo, although it didn’t look like that in the ring. But I know that there was a question up until the actual weigh-in whether he would make weight." - Bob Arum

[The Big Dunn]

Maybe cause Lipnets has 13 pro fights and hasn't fought anybody ranked in the top 50?

Ok, I can respect this. That said, overall these are rankings are very credible and respected, even if you disagree with some. Lipinets may not have much pro experience, but it’s not like he is a bum. He is solid. Mikey is just much better. He is also better than Easter and Linares.

[BigStomps]

Pretty sure they will do big numbers with Mikey fighting in San Antonio. Mikey had plenty of fans in New York. We know why the Linares fight didn't happen, because Oscar wanted 50/50 when Linares barely drew 2k at the Forum. The Garcia's have a gym in San Antonio so he will do well there.

Quit lying out your ass! A little over 7,000 seats were sold for Linares last fight at the forum. Still not very good but way more than 2,000

[Scipio2009]

He cleaned out his div so they can be NO DOUBTS as to who the beast is.Postal if he is same guy gives Mikey real tough fight and beats Lip every day of week and 2wice on sunday.

Lipinets was the next fight, Prograis is chomping at the heels, you have some really good prospect coming along, Figueroa Jr had just started his comeback, and Mikey Garcia was just starting to dip his toes in at the weight.

You add that Top Rank has no welterweights for him to fight, and it's odd that Crawford left with at least 5-6 good fights still there to make.

[John Locke]

Because real fans want to see best fight best and Mikey just ducked about 3 guys with one move lol.But your right about it being an action fight.And maybe Mikey will hit wall with a nat 140pder.But this guy is a mile away whenit comes to skill and MADE for Mikey(slow feet easy too hit)

Who did he duck? Lipinets is a much tougher fight than Linares who's made of glass. I would've preferred a Lomachenko or Easter Jr fight but I don't know what goes on behind the scenes, this isn't a bad fight at all. Lipinets is a solid fighter and much bigger than Mikey, I think this fight goes the distance

[The Big Dunn]

They don't even know. We're going to complain about him not fighting two guys he'd beat anyway? lol this is that Floyd, Canelo, GGG type of hate right here. The **** isn't logical

Reading this thread I think you are right that so many have no idea where Lipinets is ranked. I can understand those saying his resume is light. I can also understand disappointment that it isn’t a name more known like Easter or Linares at 135.

He is set to fight one of the top 3 or 4 jww in the world coming off beating Broner. To call this weak seems completely unfair.

[Sadiqkingofko]

Why is everyone disappointed?? It's a good fight