Comments Thread For: Mikey Garcia to Keep IBF 140-Pound Title, Baranchyk Bout Ordered

[SkillspayBills]

WOW. He should have stayed at 135 and faced the Loma-Linares winner and Easter.

[Cheerios36]

WOW. He should have stayed at 135 and faced the Loma-Linares winner and Easter.

Yep, but he be nothing but a DUCK. All he does is quack, quack, quack, but true to his duck nature, no bite!

He knows Loma would whoop his azz, so he will continue to quack, but hopefully everyone knows by now, he aint nutin but a DUCK!

[deanrw]

WOW. He should have stayed at 135 and faced the Loma-Linares winner and Easter.

Mikey only likes to fight guys with a certain come straight forward style. Notice he even recently called Crawford a runner? SMH.

[factsarenice]

I have thought the same thing since day 1. The dude flat out just don't want to make 135 he's only done it only once his entire career. 3 of his last 4 fights have been at 140 and his next fight will be his 3rd fight in a row at 140. There is more money and higher caliber fighters at 135 and 147. But he's too small for 147 and probably too big now for 135. Sadly for us fans is 140 is a weak division right now so I don't see any good fights for him unless he moves off that weight.

He won't look like superman the way he did at the lower weight but he'll beat Baranchyk. Mikey can actually box and he has better fundamentals than most although movers will always present problems, at any weight. I expect Prograis to be a tough fight but I'd still favor Mikey and take him over Ramirez, Taylor or anyone else at 140.

[filup79]

I'm a fan of Mikey he's an amazing and fun fighter to watch. But the issue here is this dude just talks toooooo much spent the last 8 months name dropping so many top fighters then turned down all those fights to face Lipnets who nobody called for. I got no beef with him refusing to defend the 135 WBC belt. I could care less about any of these belts. But lord he talked a lot and then basically grabbed a paper belt at 135 never faced any of the top guys then waited till crawford left 140 and then grabbed a paper belt at 140. This is what we killed Broner for doing cherry picking belts just to say you a 4 division champ when you never beat the man or top guys in most of those weight classes.

So Dandy Dan reporting that Mikey Garcia will keep his IBF title and stay at 140. So what happened to the title unification at 135. Will be his 3rd straight bout at jr welter. Garcia is an elite boxer, but what he says and does often dont match up #boxing

— KimRy's Army (@steveucnlive) March 23, 2018

You saying that Mikey picked up paper belts at 130 and 135? You could say the same thing about Loma picking up paper belts at 126 and 130. Who exactly did Linares beat for his 135 titles. He won a vacant WBC title and beat some Euro bum for the WBA. I could name a bunch of fighters who picked up vacant titles or titles against nobodies or the weakest champ in the division. Lets be real Mikey is a big guy, Loma was mentioning Mikey since early last year but it took him a year to move up to 135. As for Linares, you keep saying Mikey asked the WBC to hold on mandating the Linares fight, as I recall Mikey fought in January of last year and wanted to fight in July, Linares wasn't willing to fight in July and wanted to wait till September. Why would Mikey wait 8 months when he could get a fight sooner? As for this year, do you really believe that Linares should be receiving a 50/50 split when he cant draw any fans and is getting 250k from GB per fight they promote? Mikeys last fight in San Antonio had 4 times the crowd that LInares had at the Forum.

[IMDAZED]

You saying that Mikey picked up paper belts at 130 and 135? You could say the same thing about Loma picking up paper belts at 126 and 130. Who exactly did Linares beat for his 135 titles. He won a vacant WBC title and beat some Euro bum for the WBA. I could name a bunch of fighters who picked up vacant titles or titles against nobodies or the weakest champ in the division. Lets be real Mikey is a big guy, Loma was mentioning Mikey since early last year but it took him a year to move up to 135. As for Linares, you keep saying Mikey asked the WBC to hold on mandating the Linares fight, as I recall Mikey fought in January of last year and wanted to fight in July, Linares wasn't willing to fight in July and wanted to wait till September. Why would Mikey wait 8 months when he could get a fight sooner? As for this year, do you really believe that Linares should be receiving a 50/50 split when he cant draw any fans and is getting 250k from GB per fight they promote? Mikeys last fight in San Antonio had 4 times the crowd that LInares had at the Forum.

Facts and boxing fans are like oil and water.

Better to parrot what everyone else is saying and be accepted than to actually use your brain.

[Hnnnggg]

I agree with the notion that he should stay at 135 and attempt to unify. He’ll probably snatch another belt from Jose Ramirez and maybe try and lift the WBA regular off of Matthysse.

He’s staying at 140 for a reason. Mikey, although incredibly skilled and one of the best p4p at lower weights, is all wrong for lomachenko. Mikey is a textbook boxer with sound fundamentals. Loma’s skillset preys on that.

[7NN]

He has out-pointed Lipinets and Adrien Broner

Should have no-mased them.

[Jubei]

Even for the most hardcore Garcia fans you should slowly realize that Garcia is not planning to fight a real opponent anytime soon, he will milk and milk and milk his fans by fighting unproven unknowns, Lipinets, Zlaticanin and Baranchyk next.

[Pigeons]

Most likely! I was just thinking same thing. Almost 100% bet it will...

That would make this fight for the WBA, WBC, and The Ring lighweight titles.

With Garcia staying at 140, I feel like this fight has a lot of similarities to Mayweather-Castillo where the lineal lightweight title was on the line even though it was Mayweather's first real lightweight fight. Linares is the clear #1 lightweight now, Lomachenko was the clear #1 super featherweight and would slot in as #2 lightweight without a debate.