Danny Garcia: I don’t care what the media says, my fans love me!

By Boxing News - 07/30/2014 - Comments

garcia67By Dan Ambrose: Speaking in the third person at times, WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (28-0, 16 KOs) talked today in a media call about his upcoming non-title 142 pound catch-weight match-up with unranked lightweight Rod Salka (19-3, 3 KOs) on August 9th at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Sounding a bit like he has a chip on his shoulder for some reason, Garcia talked about how he doesn’t care about what the media are saying about him, because his fans love him. The media have been on Garcia’s case ever since he won a controversial decision over Mauricio Herrera last March and refused to give him a rematch to clear the controversy.

Garcia has also taken heat due to his adviser scheduling him to fight Salka, a lightweight instead of a light welterweight and not ranked in the top 15 at lightweight. Garcia obviously doesn’t arrange his fights, but he does have the power to veto choices offered up to him by his adviser. That obviously didn’t happen in this case.

Garcia said “My fans will always be my fans! They back me up and love me anyway. I don’t care what the media says. I don’t have any expectations for August 9 other than getting in the ring and taking the win. I’m looking good, I’m looking sharp ahead of August 9. I don’t care who they put in the ring with me. Its 2 guys with 2 hands. I want to look like a champ Aug 9, I love the atmosphere at the Barclays Center, so I’m motivated.”

Garcia seems like he’s in denial about the fact that it’s not just the media that are disappointed in him. It’s the fans that are the ones that are unhappy with him. Garcia should have done the right thing and given a rematch to Herrera after his highly controversial win over him. But instead of doing that, Garcia said that he won the fight 8 rounds to 4, and that Herrera wasn’t going to get a rematch from him. Fans might have let Garcia slide on this if he had turned around and fought someone good like Lucas Matthysse in a rematch without hitting him low all night, or if he’d faced Viktor Postol or Lamont Peterson. But Garcia didn’t do that. He’s facing a lightweight and an unranked one at that in Salka.



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