Mikey Garcia vs. Jonathan Victor Barrios on November 10th

By Boxing News - 10/10/2012 - Comments

Image: Mikey Garcia vs. Jonathan Victor Barrios on November 10thBy Dan Ambrose: Unbeaten featherweight contender Miguel Angel “Mikey” Garcia (29-0, 25 KO’s) will be facing former WBA World featherweight champion Jonathan Victor Barrios (34-3-1, 18 KO’s) in a scheduled 10 round bout in an HBO televised card on November 10th at the Wynn Resort, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Barrios, 28, is the replacement opponent for WBO featherweight champion Orlando Salido, who had to pull out of the Garcia fight after suffering an injury to his right index finger recently.

The Garcia-Barrios fight will be taking place on the same card as the WBC junior middleweight eliminator bout between Erislandy Lara vs. Vanes Martirosyan. Also on the card will be Jesse Magdaleno vs. TBA and Jesse Hart vs. TBA.

Originally, the card was a good one when Salido was a part of it, but now that he’s been scratched off the card dude to his injury it’s not really an HBO worthy card if you ask me. The Lara-Martirosyan fight is going to be a good one, but the Garcia vs. Barrios fight isn’t even worth watching. And you can’t expect Hart or Magdaleno to make up for what you won’t be getting in the Garcia fight because those two fights will likely be mismatches as well. I’m surprised HBO blessed this card, because their top executives should have cancelled the card as soon as Salido was injured and there wasn’t a quality fighter being brought in to replace him.

Barrios has lost two out of his three fights. He may have been the WBA featherweight champion Irving Berry, but he’s struggled in two out of his last three fights, losing to Celestino Caballero and Juan Carlos Salgado. He lost his last fight. That’s not interesting to see Garcia fight another struggling fighter, but I’m not really all that surprised because Mikey Garcia has been beating a lot of struggling fighters as of late.

Garcia’s last fight was against 39-year-old Mauricio Pastrana, a fighter who had lost 10 out of his last 11 fights at the time that Garcia fought him. Before that, Mikey Garcia fought Bernabe Concepcion, who had lost three out of his last four fights before facing Garcia. In his fight before that, Garcia beat Juan Carlos Martinez, a guy that had lost three out of his last six fights. It goes on and on and on. So, I’m not surprised at all that Garcia is fighting Barrios, because a guy that has lost two out of his last three fights is pretty much the kinds of fighters that Garcia has been building his unbeaten record on as of late.



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