Comments Thread For: Mikey Garcia: After Easter, The Lomachenko Fight Makes Sense

[1hourRun]

The master Cherry-Picker 'Mickey-Mouse' Garcia strikes again : according to reports Lomachenko just had shoulder surgery and on time Mikey comes out issuing a challenge hahaha! Hes too predictable at this point ; Robert Easter appeared to be a threat until little Fortuna exposed him and right on point Mikey decided lightweight is where he belongs

-- what a coincidence that that decision came around the time the IBF was going to force 'Mickey-Mouse' into a tough fight against his mandatory for the IBF 140 pound title vs. Bran#d$hghoHahaha

[Bossman15]

What about Regis Prograis? Is Mikey Garcia and Bob Arum afraid of Regis Prograis? Garcia is a cherry picker!

What about Prograis answer why Crawford never fought him or Ramirez when those two were better opponents than Diaz and Molina say I'm wrong plus why would Garcia need to fight Prograis at this point when his goal was to clean up the division which he is if not would he be fighting Easter next after Easter who you think he fights next

[Ake-Dawg]

The master Cherry-Picker 'Mickey-Mouse' Garcia strikes again : according to reports Lomachenko just had shoulder surgery and on time Mikey comes out issuing a challenge hahaha! Hes too predictable at this point ; Robert Easter appeared to be a threat until little Fortuna exposed him and right on point Mikey decided lightweight is where he belongs

-- what a coincidence that that decision came around the time the IBF was going to force 'Mickey-Mouse' into a tough fight against his mandatory for the IBF 140 pound title vs. Bran#d$hghoHahaha

135 looks to be his best weight. Besides, he didn't really call Loma out. He just said that the next logical fight would be Loma if he unified.

[Bronx2245]

The only fight I want to see more than Mikey vs. Loma is Spence Jr. vs. Crawford! Wilder vs. Joshua gets the Bronze!

[Califire209]

Where's all the little Ho's that came on this site and said Garcia was never going to fight Easter Jr? Now look at him he's on his way to unifying the entire lightweight division by 2019.. all the clowns who are calling him Mickey Mouse Club are the exact ones who said Adrien Broner would whoop his ass

[Scipio2009]

Love him in the Shield. It sucks that the WWE turned him into a John Cena/Hulk Hogan instead of being an Anti Hero.

Random side note: the issue with Roman Reigns isn't that he's been changed into anything, it's that he hasn't changed a single thing since debuting, tbh.

The Shield was an anti-hero faction; when the push happened, Seth did something different, Dean did something different, yet Roman hardly changed (was still coming through the crowd, was still The Big Dog, fought whomever, etc). Without changing anything, Roman was then placed as the top guy, and folks didn't buy it.

The Hulk Hogan point is an interesting one; Hogan's entire first run in WWF only lasted a decade, with basically the last two years of that spent trying to find the next guy since Hogan got stale. Even with the move to WCW, within two years there, folks were waning on Hogan. "Hollywood" Hogan becomes a thing with the nWo, and Hogan gets another 3 years of being interesting before he gets stale again.

With a little movement and character change, Hogan was able to turn an 8-year run into 20 years.

Roman Reigns has been doing that same thing for 6 years at this point, with very little change.

[filup79]

If he beats Easter then Mikey will have the WBC and IBF lightweight titles. A unification with Lomachenko would make a lot of sense at that point.

But will Bob Arum let that fight happen, though? Or will he ruin things like he usually does?

Loma had already said before the shoulder injury that he wouldn't fight Mikey next after Linares. For some reason, Loma mentions Mikey as a fight but is hesitant to go straight towards it. He mentioned a Mikey fight after beating Sosa, Mikey runs into him and tells him to move up in next fight to get acclimated so they can fight. Loma ends up fighting two smaller men from lower weights. Loma will take at least 2 fights before he thinks of fighting Mikey.

[filup79]

Dude is gonna price himself out. You have to be stupid not to see it coming. Also lol at him fighting easter as if easter is any good. The guy should have two loses

Price himself out? He's already making more money than Loma, it's Arum who will low ball him and say he's asking for too much. Mikey already said he could offer more money to fight him on his show, but we all know Arum will never allow that. Anyone who wants to fight Loma or Crawford, will have to fight on ESPN and agree to Arum's terms, if not then theres no fight. We just saw Linares/Loma... Osacar and HBO were offering more money for that fight to be on HBO, Arum said no and moved on and it was Linares who pretty much begged HBO and Oscar to let him take the fight... keep in mind that was Linares biggest payday ever. Mikey makes more that Loma, so Mikey isn't going to just accept anything Arum offers.

[filup79]

Loma already sonned Gary Russell jr on showtime he will do this anywhere while you comment the hate

That fight happened because it went to purse bid, Arum will never allow another Loma fight to go to a purse bid and lose.

[filup79]

Bob has let Loma fight Rigo, Russell Jr, Linares and Sosa, who are all with other promoters. Why would he change it up now? It is the other side you need to worry about these days. They are paying Mikey and Spence extra so they don't jump ship.


Also Mikey knows Loma will not fight him in December anyway. Loma said he will not fight a hard fight coming off shoulder surgery. He needs a tuneup fight to feel things out.

There's a difference in your post. Arum made fights with those guys who were with different promoters because they weren't on Mikeys level. None of those guys draws close to what Mikey does. The Russell fight went to a purse pid, that's the only reason it happened. The Linares fight only happened because Linares dind't want to lose out on his biggest payday after not getting the Mikey fight. None of those fighters get paid close to what Mikey makes. Mikey gets paid his purse along with percentage of the revenue for his fights. We know that isn't going to happen with Arum running the show. Loma had stated before there was mention of an injury that he wouldn't be fighting Mikey anytime soon.