Comments Thread For: Arum, Garcia Are Not Discounting The Worth of Juanma

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When a fighter who has been a superstar takes a couple of losses, he is often quick to be written off as being on his way down. But both promoter Bob Arum and trainer Robert Garcia believe that Juan Manuel Lopez of Puerto Rico is still a very dangerous fighter, in spite of TKO losses to Orlando Salido in April 2011 and March 2012.

Perhaps that's why they spoke in cautious tones when handicapping this Saturday's featherweight title fight between Lopez and Mikey Garcia, who is trained by older brother Robert Garcia. [Click Here To Read More]

[TOBYLEE1]

When ever I hear so many times that they are not overlooking the opponent usually it means that they are not motivated to fight them in the first place and are trying to hype the senses into the fighter.

If Juanma doesn't attack early and lets Garcia find his grove he will get beat. Garcia is not Salido and doesn't pressure all the time so this is going to go very different from those fights

[Heru]

"Juanma has nothing to lose. If he loses, OK, pretty much his career is done."

Huh?

I know answering questions on the spot is tough, but that is just funny.

[lopez36]

even if juanma loses he can still go up to 130 and become a champion there,as long as he faces guys with no power and weak chins he'll win

[DannYankee]

We see this in every execution fight, you know a fighter is fkd when the opponents camp is giving him praises to make it seem like a legitimate competitive fight.