Comments Thread For: De La Hoya: Garcia Needed This Fight To Prove He Belongs With The Elite

[NachoMan]

Who is elite then? And how many fighters actually have wins over elite guys? If you wanna talk about the young lightweights and their best wins then Teo beat Loma and Richard Commey, Tank beat Leo Santa Cruz at 130, Ryan has the Luke Campbell win, and Haney is still looking for his big opportunity. So I ask again, who has a bunch of elite wins, besides guys who have been around for many years? Most guys have solid wins because there are only so many elite guys anyway

Yeah, by that standard, Teofimo stands head and shoulders above the rest. His win over Loma trumps every one of his rivals' wins combined.

[thack]

Beating Campbell shouldn't get you beyond the C level. Campbell is a bum. Garcia looked fragile and uncoordinated throughout exchanges. Not the stuff of elite fighters. It told me more about Ryan than Campbell.

Ryan has taken a gold medal and three top drawer fighters to the wire and you call him a bum.......I wonder who really is the bum.

[1Eriugenus]

Anyone that calls Luke Campbell a 'bum' is flat-out a jerk.

Make something of it?

[TexasCowBoy]

Cool Hand is no bum.....sounds like the hamonites are jealous....look the hamonites should ask tank to fight Ryan next .....at 22 yrs old this kid (ryan) has no place to go but up and if tank dont step up to him now with all of ryans flaws then he wont do it when ryan refines his craft.

[VashDBasher]

Garcia reminds of a young De La Hoya. Garcia is not as talented as he was, but he has the same build, hand speed and devastating power that DLH had. As for the elite, I don’t think that Garcia is neither ready for Tank nor Lopez.