Comments Thread For: The Problem With Danny Garcia

[Verus]

I don't see any signs of a hunger for greatness in Danny Garcia. He is a nonfactor in the welterweight division, and he lacks a fan base. If he doesn't step up his game and fight live bodies, Danny will become irrelevant.

[bronx7]

Article on the money Garcia beating Rios does nothing a career lightweight who is done beat by ghost of manny and stoped by Bradley Salka 2.0

[rickJen]

Haymon created the culture of overpaying fighters fighting the Salkas of the world.
If you were asked to fight Salka for $700K, would you say no if you were Swift?
That's probably the time when the Garcia father and son team gave them the idea.

It's exactly the Salka news that Stevenson, Mikey Garcia... got motivated to seek shelter in Haymon's arms.

[etech1]

I was actually a big fan of Garcia, when he fought Mathaysee, and chose him to win.

The way he ducked, dodged, cherry picked, and exploited the loopholes of boxing over the next several years, has made me utterly detest him.

This guy is another good example of what's wrong with boxing.

When Thruman beat his a#& I was one happy mthr fkr.

If this clown had won, he would have ordered up at least 2 more mismatches by now.

Now he'll probably beat the highly shopworn Rios, and automatically get a title shot.

It's crap like this, that makes me go weeks at a time, not having any interest in boxing. I've been a hardcore fan of combat sports for decades, but the way boxing is run, is actually curing my passion for it.

And I just can't get interested in MMA anymore. Smh

[Bronx2245]

Crawford has to beat Spence Jr. in order to fight DSG? Now that's funny! What did Rios have to do to get a fight?

[Strategic1]

Good fighter but overrated.. just a notch above Broner, Peterson, Guerrero, khan.

Amongst the many fighteŕs who were great in lower divisions but are just good contenders at 147.

[elfag]

lmao at calling his fight in puerto rico a homecoming fight when hes from philly and doesnt speak spanish. Garcia has no personality, is in boring fights and on top of that he doesnt capture the puerto rican fan base because he has little ties to them. He has little chance of beating the top welterweights. He wont get bigger career wise than he already is.

[Tuavale]

Garcia always looking for the most lucrative and easiest path. I'd be surprised if he fights Crawford or Spence at this point. He'll probably fight a beatable Porter but will stay away from top iron unless it's a massive payday and he's seen vulnerabilities. Not a Swift fan. He plays it close to the vest in the ring and most of his fights stink. Still, he has ability and can punch and catch. It's too bad he doesn't extend himself more.

[Scipio2009]

Danny Garcia will fight Brandon Rios, and then likely fight again in the Fall (Shawn Porter will wait on Keith Thurman, Spence likely fights the Ortiz-Alexander winner in the Summer, and Crawford isn't coming over to fight).

Come 2019, with Danny Garcia firmly in place as mandatory (with two more wins on his ledger), he's going to likely get a shot at the WBC/WBA/IBF champion, in a megafight.

Danny Garcia is who he is, and he's still a top 5 welterweight (only fighters I put above him are Spence and barely Thurman; we don't know how Crawford's skills translate at 147lbs); great eyes/vision, monster left hook, sturdy chin, good jab, really good on the counter, slow feet, and a boxing craft molded from all the time spent in Philly gyms, on the amateur scene, and his hard road up the ranks at 140lbs.

Not blowing through Herrera definitely hurt things (Herrera showing the world that he was actually a world-level 140/147 fighter didn't change things after the quick opinion was set, but that's boxing for you), but writing off Danny Garcia is a mistake.

[P4Pdunny]

Didnt realise he was 29.