Comments Thread For: Manny Pacquiao Opens As Slight Favorite In Still-Discussed Fight With Ryan Garcia

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It remains uncertain whether Manny Pacquiao and Ryan Garcia will meet in the ring and under what conditions should such a pairing materialize. One aspect which has become clear is the oddsmakers once again lean towards the legend over the rising star in such a matchup. ******** resource site SportsBettingDime.com have inserted the 42-year old Pacquiao as a -140 betting favorite (bet $140 to win back an additional $100) over the unbeaten Garcia 20 years his junior. The 22-year old Garcia is viewed as a slight +110 underdog (bet $100 to win an additional $110) for a superlight on which he has fixated for the duration of the new year.
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[KillaMane26]

Waiting on these fights is like waiting on the stimulus check.

Best to just move tf on... And expect it not to come

[Bronx2245]

Real or not: Did Ryan Garcia make a mistake in chasing Manny Pacquiao? Where does Gervonta Davis go from here?

February 1, 2021:

Real or not: All the talk about fighting Manny Pacquiao has helped Ryan Garcia's place in the sport.

Kriegel: Not real.

This has all the earmarks of a fiasco from which a young fighter -- especially one as promising as Garcia -- should have been spared.

Garcia -- as I've said recently -- is precisely the kind of young star boxing needs. I don't blame him for wanting to test himself against Pacquiao -- two decades older, two divisions bigger -- but the kid deserved better from the people around him. Garcia could be special. But it feels like his handlers have left him to learn one of boxing's truisms the hard way: that a fight with Pacquiao is among the easiest things to talk about, and the hardest to get.

The way I'm hearing it, this whole thing began as an outlandish proposition for Garcia's titular promoter, Oscar De La Hoya, and Pacquiao to fight at a half-billion-dollar mansion in Bel Air that's been on the market longer than its builders imagined. In other words, an exhibition with no live gate. Nevertheless, De La Hoya apparently passed this can't-miss opportunity on to his company's most marketable asset, Garcia.

Meanwhile, it took nearly two weeks for anyone to clarify whether the Great Proposal was an exhibition -- not a great look for a 22-year-old coming off a win that enticed the boxing world -- not to mention that little thing called the internet. Turns out it's supposed to be a real fight, but the task of clarification was left to Garcia himself on Instagram.

Then ESPN Deportes columnist Salvador Rodriguez spoke with Golden Boy president Eric Gomez, who said, "There's nothing to talk about. That fight isn't going to happen."

Huh? And you wonder why Garcia has had problems with his promoter.

Garcia's adviser, Guadalupe Valencia, also told Rodriguez that both fighters' teams would continue to push ahead in hopes of a fight, as per their clients' wishes. That's wonderful if it happens. But what if -- like most great boxing ideas -- it falls apart? Let's start with the fact that Pacquiao and Garcia are signed with different promotions.

Maybe Valencia can negotiate a compromise. Still, bigger question: Where's the money? Pacquiao needs a lot of it, and doesn't want to fight in the United States because of his delinquent tax liabilities.

Getting complicated, no?

Look, fighters talk about fights that never happen all the time. But Garcia is in a unique position, at a unique moment in his career. It wasn't just the way he got up off the canvas and took out Luke Campbell (something for him to think about in the event he should ever drop his right hand against Pacquiao). The attention he commanded derived from more than that. It was very deliberate sense with which he went about pursuing a fight with Tank Davis.

"Ryan Garcia vs. Gervonta Davis is going to be one of the biggest fights you've ever seen," he told me just weeks ago.

Like Ali-Liston, he said.

I don't know if it would be quite that. But he had me believing.

What's more, he succeeded in putting Davis in a position where he had to engage.

Now he's given Davis -- who recently tweeted that he's moved on -- a way out.

So what if Ryan Garcia has lost his shot at Tank Davis for a Manny Pacquiao fight that never happens?

That would be a damn shame.

https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/...-davis-go-here

[chepboxingking]

-140!? That's absurd. Ryan has suspect defense and Pacquiao still has the speed and power that KO's welterweights.

[PeepeePoopooMan]

Slight favorite?

[Oldskoolg]

Manny could stop his kid in one round if he really wanted to. This is a farce of a money grab by both fighters if it goes through. I’m already tired of the kid calling out the same handful of fighters abs never making any attempt to fight any of them

[juanpablo]

Slight favorite? lmao wth

[Nightfall]

Garcia is not ready for that level of pressure no matter how old Pacquiao is.

[ELPacman]

When getting boxing matchups that the people want to see are so hard these days, what better than to start betting on if the fight will ever materialize.

Forget about whose going to win the fight and betting on that these days, we're lucky to just see a damn fight happen! BET ON THAT!

[Fighter78]

Slight??? Lmao