You hit it dead on. His claim to fame was beating "the machine", another pretty good fighter who was overhyped. So all the hype matthysee was getting, transferred to Garcia after that victory.
How would you rank yourself and the other top four fighters you've faced? Mauricio Herrera: Well, Karim was a whole different style of fighting. Not too much boxing in that fight, but a lot of holding. I don't think that it was a crowd-pleasing fight, but he's also tough and he's game. I think that he would give Danny Garcia a helluva fight, as well. But I think that I won the Karim Mayfield fight. I felt the same with Alvarado. I thought that I had a close fight with Danny, and I thought I beat Alvarado, and where he's at now? I beat Provodnikov. Those were all tough fights. I was prepared for some of them, and some of them I wasn't as well as I should have been. So I could easily put myself in the top five. I'm No. 1, and you can put the rest wherever they fall. I would put myself No. 1, and then Provodnikov, and then Alvarado. Then I would put Mayfield and then I would put Danny. Out of all of them guys, that's the level I feel that they're at. They're all different styles, of course, and they're all totally different fighters, but I think that all of those other fights prepared me for Danny. It's just that I expected more from Danny, you know? I still watch Provodnikov. He's a great fighter. Danny is, too. I take nothing from away from Danny, but I think they were all tougher than Danny. At least, physically, I thought they were tougher.
This. I expected Garcia to loose against Mattysse but props to him for getting the win. However he's never been the same since
Pretty sure it was Matty. He had quite the number of injuries coming out of that fight and was never the same.
Garcia was limited from the start. He has a number of good wins but at top level its hard to be dominant if you have stone feet and slow hands.
