Comments Thread For: Ryan Garcia's Father Says Pacquiao Deal is "Very Close" - Provides Details

[The Problem Child]

I love these type of spectacles / bizarre fights but not as an exhibition wtf! Come on, put the title ones the line and give us a real fight.

[Roadblock]

Fight hype just said fight in jeopardy. Pac Advisor blocked by golden boy.

Somebody lying

I hope it is its not a fight its taking a dump on holding a Word Title and ducking your main rival in the process, it should be Ryan vs Tank and Manny vs Spence not this pantomime.

[cjeagle1]

You are confusing non-title bouts with exhibitions.

Sure someone like SRR (for example) back in the day would have loads of 10-roud non-title bouts between defending his belt in 15-round championship fights, but these were NOT exhibitions.

An exhibition does not affect your record. An exhibition fight is usually for just a few rounds, often involving larger gloves... and is generally a waste of everyone's time.

You might be right. My bad. That is what I meant, non title bouts. I always thought they were also considered exhibition fights since champions didn't risk their titles by taking on these ranked fighters in between championship fights.

However I wouldn't consider exhibition fights useless if the parties involved decided to adopt generally accepted regulation gloves, at least 10 rounds(as was rumored to be the case on numerous articles about this topic) and have rules allowing them to knockout each other.

The boxers set the rules for exhibition fights and they can easily adopt regular boxing rules if they wanted to.

Pacquaio is on record in saying that he doesn't want to get involved in the type of exhibition fights that Mayweather was doing in Japan so we could reasonably presume that he would insist that this exhibition fight(if that is the case) would be for real with both fighters having the option to KO each other.

Garcia's father also called this potential fight a real fight as well even though it might be an exhibition.

Anyways all the speculation and media reports right now is coming from the Garcia camp. They might be the party wanting an exhibition(since they don't want a loss registered on their fighter's record) which Pacquaio might not agreed to.

Garcia said on instagram: “A dream turned reality. It’s an honor to share the ring with Manny Pacquiao. Here is to the best man winning."

Pacquaio's only comments on his social media accounts was noncommittal since Garcia's instagram announcement.

Pacquiao has not acknowledged Garcia since. He’s only offered thoughts on the anniversary of Kobe Bryants’ death, and one other quote since Garcia went public.

“Much dreaming and many words are meaningless. Therefore fear God,” said the Filipino Senator.

[KillaMane26]

I hope it is its not a fight its taking a dump on holding a Word Title and ducking your main rival in the process, it should be Ryan vs Tank and Manny vs Spence not this pantomime.

I'm curious if Ryan fights Tank if not... Cuz that's a blantant duck. And I hope he gets the same backlash Tank would get

[Doubledagger]

Floyd deserves all the trashing he gets for the bs celebrity fight. There’s no spinning that any other way

There is no need for a spin. Floyd is a retired old fighter. He is is SUPPOSED to be doing exhibitions.

Pacquaio and Ryan are both active fighters and Pacquiao is holding a belt hostage. You can't defend this shieet!

[Doubledagger]

How can a 135 pound fighter "duck" another 135 pound fighter by choosing to fight a Top 20 ATG 147 fighter??

This board is deranged. ALL of Haney, Teofimo, Loma, Tank, and Ryan would choose Manny over anyone else. Its not even a question

...If you go out there and obliterate the legend Manny - which becomes easier by the day at 43 - you pave your own path.

The hate is real here

Its a fkn exhibition fight you moron, at a catchweight no less.

Phuck outta with that bs!

[Doubledagger]

I don't think you guys understand the tradition of exhibition fights in boxing back in the day. Champions used to do it all the time between championship fights to avoid risking their title.

It allowed fighters to fight without having to pay sanctioning fees from world alphabet boxing sacntioning organizations, use catchweight limitations, set up their own agreed rules within the purview of state sanctioning bodies, or in the case of Muhammad Ali fighting a wrestler in a boxing ring.

This are still real fights that can involve knockouts. In fact exhibition fights back in the day can lead to an official sanctioned championship if the lower rated boxer fighting the champion ended up winning or having an extremely competitive fight with the champion.

I don't think you understand that this is not back in the day.

Back in the day fighters fought 4 to 8 times a year. An exhibition was no big deal.

In the days of fighters fighting once or twice a year, and fighters are ducking and marinating more than ever, no boxing fan gives a PHUCK about no exhibition fights.

[Roadblock]

I'm curious if Ryan fights Tank if not... Cuz that's a blantant duck. And I hope he gets the same backlash Tank would get

I agree he called out Tank hardcore and Tank said no problems, Manny said Spence was too slow for him and Spence will take it in a hot minute so they both duck real opponents with this BS.

[cjeagle1]

There has been no confirmation that this fight is going thru or that this fight will be an exhibition fight. All that speculation and trial balloon is coming from the Garcia camp.

Considering that Pacquaio is on record at saying that he doesn't want to get involved in the type of exhibition fights that Mayweather likes getting into, there is no guarantee that Pacquaio will agree to Ryan Garcia camp's demands for it.

Pacquaio holds all the strings when it comes to setting up the rules and purse for any fight he wants at this point in his career, so I don't think this so called exhibition rumor will ever become reality.

So enough with the exhibition rumors many are spouting here.

[Roadblock]

I don't think you understand that this is not back in the day.

Back in the day fighters fought 4 to 8 times a year. An exhibition was no big deal.

In the days of fighters fighting once or twice a year, and fighters are ducking and marinating more than ever, no boxing fan gives a PHUCK about no exhibition fights.

Its not how it is, you cannot fight the big fights 4 times a year, they didnt either they fought stiffs, take SRR 140 or so fights , well he only had a 30 real ones with top guys maybe less , its no different today they still fight the same number of big fights over their career only its more refined as in conditioning and is a very different economic environment, its so much more complicated today with the big players.

Look at racehorses the average nag races as much as weekly in the season the champions 3 maybe 4 times a year, its much tougher to bounce back from competing against the very best competition. boxing is no different .