Is Danny Garcia still relevant to the Welterweight division?

I am not a fan of Garcia. Am usually rooting against him... but... taking a close L to Thurman, and being in a bad styles matchup with Porter... and being two levels below Spence and Crawford, doesn't make him irrelevant.

Hes a high level, relatively big named gatekeeper, and is good enough to give all but maybe 3 guys plenty of problems.

imo... gatekeepers dont get enough credit. They are hardly irrelevant.

 

They'd give him a good fight, but I doubt any of them would KO him, not saying its a guarantee Danny beats them, I'd say they're 55-45 in Danny's favor.

As far as Theophane goes, he can be tricky enough to make less seasoned boxers look average, and that was early in Danny's career, Danny has a tendency to turn off in matches, that's always been present, but the post-Khan/Morales Danny would have handled him far easier.

 

His weakness is a lot more than just his chin.

I rate his lack of IQ as almost as big a weakness as his chin.

If he had even a upper mid tier level of boxing IQ, his chin wouldnt be the problem that it is.

But anyways, I digress. I just see that Khan line quite a bit... where his only weakness is his chin, and its just not the case.

 

I dont really have the time to break your post down but Ill say this... when you lose by stoppage because you repeatedly try throwing too many punches, stay too long in the pocket, and dont enhance the subtle dimensions to your game that strengthen and supplement the standard speed boxing style, yes... its an IQ problem.

When your 'style' is the reason you are getting caught with counters you should never be getting caught with, again... and again... and again.. yes... thats an IQ problem.

As for him having solid wins where he overmatched his opponents, I think youre being a bit too impressed with the significance of those victories and the meanings behind them. Khan is a speed boxer... he beat most of his opponents by having magnitudes higher raw physical attributes (speed)... overmatching opponents with elite level speed boxing is not 'outboxing them' the way youre trying to mean it... and even if it did (it doesnt), again... outboxing B and C level opponents doesnt mean you dont have an IQ weakness, relative to the world stage..

If someone has 10 fights... and they have 6 fights where their IQ doesnt cost them the fight, and 4 that it does, logic doesnt hold that you point to the 6 fights and say "see... his IQ is fine."

Anyways....to each their own. Youll believe what you will. But its quite obvious to me watching him train and fight that he lacks the IQ to be at the level his physical talent should have him at.

If you kept Khans chin, but gave him a legit good boxing IQ... he would never lose to Garcia, and hed have but a fraction of the knockdowns in his career.

But again... thats just my view.