Comments Thread For: Mikey Garcia: 147 Jump, Errol Spence Title Fight is Still The Plan

[allen23]

I dont see Garcia defeating Spence but if somehow he could, he would be PFP #1 without anyone being able to debate that.

it would still be debated..however if he went on and beat bud then that would cement his place as the p4p no.1

[Bronx2245]

Its funny that all you so called boxing fans don't know why Mikey is doing what he is doing. Mikey simply wants to call arums bluff. Mikey knows as he has stated himself, that arum doesn't want to make the loma fight, arum will state publicly that he does want that fight which he already has stated but will want to low ball Mikey and then say Mikey is ducking Loma. Mikey, by going after Spence two divisions higher than where Loma fights, will obviously be expected to lose.. So it's a win win for Mikey, if he wins he is no doubt p4p number 1 and can earn more against Loma, when he loses to Spence he can then prove he isn't ducking anyone and also ask for more against Loma. Simple

I don't think Mikey is thinking about Loma at all! Loma is irrelevant to Mikey! Arum is Mikey's opponent! It was the same with Mayweather! Pacquiao really wasn't the issue. Floyd's battle was with Arum! Arum took money from Mikey's pockets, and then cost him 2 years of his career! So now Mikey will want Arum to bow to his demands, and Arum won't do that! Loma is the one who loses out if the fight doesn't happen! Mikey vs. Tank @ 135 is more realistic than Mikey vs. Loma!

[Nomadic]

MG career won't be the same after a night of fighting Spence.

[JWHardin]

I won't hold my breath until this fight gets signed, but hope it does. Mikey will out-box Spence in small stretches, until he can't take the punishment anymore. My prediction anyway.

Who knows. Many thought Canelo would beat Floyd down too. Floyd was too slick. Many thought Canelo would beat Khan down too. Wait...he did lol.

[BillyBoxing]

Well, well, well, 'Mickey-Mouse' at it again. So now you are looking at 'Options' I see, mmmhhhmm.

I thought you supported all american fighters...

Mickey Mouse?
He's the most tested, skilled, well rounded, humble, decorated american boxer nowadays if you ask me.

Would this patriotic bias from you plagued of an obvious double standard that we already knew?

[Boxing Scene]

I won't hold my breath until this fight gets signed, but hope it does. Mikey will out-box Spence in small stretches, until he can't take the punishment anymore. My prediction anyway.

Who knows. Many thought Canelo would beat Floyd down too. Floyd was too slick. Many thought Canelo would beat Khan down too. Wait...he did lol.

Literally no one thought Canelo would beat Mayweather.

[HURTFEELINGS]

I won't hold my breath until this fight gets signed, but hope it does. Mikey will out-box Spence in small stretches, until he can't take the punishment anymore. My prediction anyway.

Who knows. Many thought Canelo would beat Floyd down too. Floyd was too slick. Many thought Canelo would beat Khan down too. Wait...he did lol.

Only Trump voters

[lion33lit]

This dude is the real deal! Testing himself against the most feared man in the division is nothing short of brave!

[Bronx2245]

I won't hold my breath until this fight gets signed, but hope it does. Mikey will out-box Spence in small stretches, until he can't take the punishment anymore. My prediction anyway.

Who knows. Many thought Canelo would beat Floyd down too. Floyd was too slick. Many thought Canelo would beat Khan down too. Wait...he did lol.

Oddsmakers Underestimate Duran
By Andrew Beyer

June 17, 1980:

Most sports fans see the Sugar Ray Leonard-Roberto Duran bout as a classic confrontation between two evenly matched fighters. But the nation's gamblers have a different opinion. They are betting the event as if it is a mismatch.

In both Washington and Las Vegas yesterday, Leonard was listed as the 9-11 favorite. For the uninitiated, this type of odds quotation is the same as is used for baseball. It means if you like Leonard, you risk $11 to win $5. If you like Duran, you put up $5 to win $9.

Support for Leonard has grown since he was initially established as a 7-9 favorite, and the present odds -- by ordinary betting standards -- are very lopsided. By contrast, there were odds quotations on 13 major-league games yesterday, and none was as high as 9-11...

In such matters I turn for guidance to a man I'll call Harry, who is the best sports handicapper I know. I have quoted his usually brilliant opinions on football in this space before, but Harry's real specialty is boxing. I made the one serious fight wager of my life when Harry told me that Larry Holmes was a cinch to upset Ken Norton. He was, of course, right. And now he is talking in the same positive terms about Leonard.

The key to the fight, he says, is weight: Duran's move from the lightweight to the welterweight division.

"This is not as if he were 21 to 22 years old and grew naturally into a welterweight, as Leonard did," Harry said. "Duran is 29, and he's put that extra weight on a 5-foot-7 frame, and I don't see him being in the same shape as he used to be. The guys he's hitting now are 12 pounds heavier than the guys he was hitting as a lightweight, and they're not falling as easily for him.

"On Friday," Harry predicted, "I wouldn't be surprised if Leonard gets dropped early. He's ****y, and he may catch one of those short right hands after holding his left to low. But that'll bring out the best in him. I think he'll block punches with his right hand and keep jabbing Duran. In one fight last year Duran got his eye cut pretty bad by a guy who landed enough jabs.

"Somewhere along the line Leonard is going to cut him. I think he'll knock him out about the ninth round."

I related Harry's reasoning to my other personal guru in these matters, the former Ozone Park Assassin, Clem Florio.

He disputed the premise that Duran is carrying an "unnatural" amount of weight, and said plenty of other fighters have made a transition to a higher weight division at Duran's age.

Florio argued that Duran has not been impressive in his welterweight fights because he hasn't been in optimal shape. But he has trained hard for this fight and he is in shape now. Florio still gives a slight edge to Leonard, but he said, "Anybody who thinks Sugar Ray is a cinch is a fool. This fight ought to be 6 to 5, pick 'em."

That seems a bit more reasonble an assessment than the prevailing odds. There have to be better ways to make money than to lay 11 to 5 against a fighter who has won 69 out of 70 bouts in his career.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archi...=.e1256e8c8a23

[Pinoy4ever]

Mikey is badass if he does it