How much do Daniel Óscar "Swift" García's career asterisks affect his legacy?

If he had rematched Matthysse and beaten him clearly, with no stipulations, and no dirty stuff, no assistance from the ref and judges...then I'd begrudgingly give him his props as an elite 140lber of that era. The pair of Morales bullyings and the rest of the old/shot/bummy cherrypicking would still leave a bad taste, but...he would at least have an undeniable rock-solid achievement. I'm not sure knocking out the very chubby Khan is that, as things stand.

 

Chinny not chubby, ridiculous auto-correct.

 

Sparking out A Mere Con is always a fun time but...it wasn't like that alone was enough for me to become a Breidis Prescott fan or anything.

 

Puerto Ricans (and Philly/Nuyoricans) got behind him, and for some reason it was very fashionable among large parts of Mayweather's fanbase to also stump for Danny. Not sure why; their in-ring styles and personalities are nothing alike. It always felt disingenuous and agenda-driven when MVC and the like overhyped García but can't put my finger on what the angle was.

 

A rival forum ran a multiple-choice poll to see which bouts fans thought Danny got gifts in:

https://tinyurl.com/ycke39mk

Surprisingly only Herrera got a majority of votes (52.08%). Lamont Peterson was in second place with 29.17% thinking he was hard done by. Everybody else was single digits.

 

Danny said something along exactly those lines himself, IIRC - it was either in response to everyone heckling him about Salka, or the outcry over Danny denying Matthysse a rematch. Maybe he said it twice. People repeat things sometimes.

 

Lego-See-Head.

 

Did you ever watch the Theophane fight? Flash Ash has an ugly style but he might have been jobbed here. I've watched it a few times over the years and gone back & forth on it.

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