By Dan Ambrose: The previously scheduled February 9th fight between WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia and Zab Judah has been moved to April 27th at the Barclays Center, in Brooklyn, New York, according to Dan Rafael of ESPN.
Garcia, 24, badly injured his ribs sparring with the hard hitting DeMarcus Corley on January 19th, Rafael says, and Garcia has had problems breathing while working out ever since. Rather than letting the card go on without the main event fight between Judah and Garcia, Showtime has decided just to postpone the entire card until April 27th, at which time Garcia should be fully healed from his rib injury.
Some boxing fans might not be happy because they’ll have to wait a little while longer to see the Judah vs. Garcia fight, as well as the undercard fights between Peter Quillin and Fernando Guerrero and Dmitri Salita and Hector Camacho Jr., but there’s not much that can be done. Garcia wasn’t prepared to take a risky fight against Judah with his injured ribs and having problems breathing.
Garcia might want to consider taking it easy when he starts sparring again because if they put a big puncher like Corley back in with him, he could hurt him again with body shots.
Judah isn’t happy about the fight being postponed, and he’s still wondering whether Garcia is faking an injury for some reason. It doesn’t make sense for Garcia to fake being hurt if he’s still going to have to fight Judah anyway. The only way that would make sense is if Garcia’s weight was way off and there’s was a possibility he might not be able to make the 140 pound limit.
Given that Garcia reportedly rehydrates up to near 160 when he fights, it’s possible that his weight could be high and that he’s trying to buy time to lose some of it. He’s really heavy for a light welterweight and he probably should be fighting at welterweight at the very least, but it must give him a big advantage to fight against light welterweights rather than fighters closer to his own weight.
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