Danny "Swift" Garcia will continue to avoid the likes of Thurman, Brook & Porter.

Yep really. In this day and age when the best rarely fight the best, I would say few fighters have done as well as Garcia. Which current LWW or WW fighters have a better resume since 2012? Pacquiao and Bradley maybe?

For the record I think he lost to Herrera too (and I'd have to watch the Peterson fight again) and hasn't looked *that* impressive lately, but for a guy who is only 27 that is a very good list of names.

 

He just had his 2nd fight at 147, which was a step up from the last one. He's ordered to face Khan next and the winner of Thurman-Porter is being teased. You guys need to chill out with this "ducking" garbage, jesus christ.

Exactly! He's far more accomplished than they are. They should be chasing him, the thread should read "Will Thurman/Porter/etc continue to avoid Danny!?" lol

 

Nope, not his lawyer (although that wouldn't be so bad... 5% of million dollar paydays twice a year is a good start). Just a guy that thinks:

1) all of these elite level fighters are probably difficult and diva-ish to work with -- that includes Brook/Thurman/Pac/May/Porter

1a) because they all have options and can make fights on or close to their own terms and they probably ***** and moan about having to concede terms with another fighter on their level.

2) I also believe that a fighter calling out another fighter means exactly f@ck all. If they were serious about a fight getting made they'd probably ask their reps to contact the other fighters reps and see if they can't hammer out a deal away from the cameras. Calling people out doesn't seem to work all that often in boxing. The work to get a fight done (at least I guess) is done between two lawyers that negotiate terms on behalf of the fighter. It takes nothing and costs nothing to look at Eli Sechbach's iphone and say, "Move up the 47 and fight me!" and have it posted to youtube.

In the end I like Garcia as a fighter, I think he tries hard and is usually entertaining. But it doesn't bother me if he picks bad matchups because -- and this is the important part -- there's always other fights to watch!

 

I doubt Danny will opt not to fight one of the champs or a serious contender before the end of 2016….

Garcia isn't the type of fighter to back down from a good challenge to disprove his naysayers. That being said I'm not sure how confident his stable and his management is? I think a lot fans tend to lump Danny in with his circle of trustees if you look at his body of work and his fortitude as a fighter in general he's a throw back kinda guy resourceful, strong, determined, fundamentally sound etc, etc. Most would agree nothing special but you know he comes to fight and if your going to beat him your going to have to out hustle out box and out will him.

He's got a shot against anyone in the 147lbs division but there's no doubt guys like Thurman, Brook, Spence, Bradely have a bit more natural talent or the preverbal equalizer that Danny doesn't blatantly have thus the reason why everyone would have him as the underdog and its perfectly conceivable. Just don't count the kid out, trust me he'll make it a good s****.

 

Add spence and Vasquez to the list

 

i believe algieri would outbox him :yep

 

I think they will fight, soon. I wouldn't want Garcia to move up and face them immediately. Late 2016 or early 2017 is cool with me.

 

Garcia would be all wrong for Algieri. Guerrero has a chin and can take a beating. Algieri only made it through the PAC fight because PAC eased up after the last knockdown. Danny wouldn't hold back on Algieri .

 

1. I did say late 2016 also.... Thurman and Porter are tied up for March. Danny MIGHT have a date with Khan in June. So under that assumption, that leaves October or later.
2. The time period I listed has nothing to do with Danny's acclimation to the weight, he's already fight there twice. Once against a fast opponent, and another against a durable, somewhat heavy puncher.

It is about fighting the best, that's why I said I want them to fight. It's about patience and buildup also. Good promotion goes a long way, even for us. Besides, it's not like either of these three, or four, will be shot or past prime in a year.

 

Is that true? Is there a credible source for this info? I'd like to read it. I literally have no problem being wrong on this score as it makes no difference to me one way or the other.

 

conversely at on this video (from the same youtube channel) at 1:45 mark Angel says that he wasn't made aware of any conversation between the Porter's and Al Haymon.

So what we have is a "he said, she said" type situation and unless Al Haymon himself weighs in (doubtful) then we might never know who's telling the truth.