FACT — Mikey Garcia Has Ducked Every Single Guy That Can Box...

Mikey Garcia has rejected fights w/ Cotto, Linares, and Pacquiao — all guys that have a high level of boxing ability — to fight Broner, Lipinets, Easter, and now Commey. It's absolutely unbelievable how many free passes Mikey gets for his blatant ducking. No one even seems to care that he called out Spence for a year, in every interview, and is now fighting Commey.

 

Fight was offered. Fight was rejected. Mikey opted for Lipinents instead after calling out Linares forever.

 

For Cotto. GBP offered Linares to Mikey in a one fight NSA deal.

From ESPN:

Lightweight titleholder Mikey Garcia has rejected an offer to unify belts with Jorge Linares early next year, Golden Boy Promotions president Eric Gomez, who promotes Linares, told ESPN on Wednesday.

Gomez said he, Golden Boy CEO Oscar De La Hoya and Linares were particularly disappointed because Garcia is the one who went on social media and began calling out for the fight and when the company "gave Mikey basically everything he wanted he turned it down."

Gomez said Golden Boy offered him a 50-50 split of the money in the fight, agreed to a one-fight deal without having any options on future Garcia fights -- a big issue for Garcia -- and also agreed that if Garcia wanted adviser Al Haymon, a bitter rival of Golden Boy's, involved in the bout it would not be an issue.

Golden Boy also said a television deal would not be an issue even though Garcia is aligned with Showtime and all of Golden Boy's major fights are on HBO. De La Hoya had said they would be fine doing the fight on whichever network paid the most for it. Still, Garcia turned the offer down.

"Mikey said it was a business decision," Gomez said. "I got a text from him [Wednesday] morning, and then I called him right after. He said he's got another offer so he's going to take the other offer and we wish him well. The way I left it with Mike was, 'Hey, let's continue to communicate and if the fight can be made after the next fight and after Linares' next fight then we'll explore it.'"

Gomez said Garcia did not tell him what the other big-fight offer he had received was, but "in previous conversations he told me he had a huge offer to fight [world titleholder] Robert Easter Jr. I don't know if that's still the case.

"We wish Mikey well," Gomez said. "He said it's a business decision and I understand that, but Linares was willing to do the fight and we gave Mikey basically everything he wanted."

Said De La Hoya: "It is disappointing that Mikey didn't end up signing up for the fight. Everyone at Golden Boy Promotions believes that the best way for fighters to shine is to match the best versus the best. We wish Mikey well."

 

How the hell didn't he duck him? Asked for the fight for YEARS. Was offered the fight. Walked away and fought Lipinets.

 

What do you mean weird if true? LOL, these are official public statements from Golden Boy and Mikey has never refuted any of it.

 

The hell are you talking about? Linares has ALWAYS been known as an excellent boxer and that the only thing against him was his paper skin.