Salka: Danny Garcia is in a lose-lose situation this Saturday

By Boxing News - 08/05/2014 - Comments

salka7By Dan Ambrose: Rod Salka (19-3, 3 KOs) says that WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (28-0, 16 KOs) in a situation this Saturday night where he’s going to take heat from fans no matter what he does in their fight on Showtime at the Barclays Center, in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

With Salka being a lightweight, and a non-top 15 ranked one at that, Garcia can get nothing from this fight for beating Salka as far as credit from the knowledgeable boxing fans.

The casual fans who have no clue who Salka or Garcia is, will be impressed with Garcia if he beats Salka in a convincing manner, but the fans who follow that sport won’t give him full credit because he’s matched against a smaller, less talented, a non-ranked fighter that he’s pulled up to the welterweight division to fight in a 10-round, non-title fight.

The idea was originally for Salka to be an easy optional title defense for Garcia when he was picked out, but the fact that he wasn’t ranked in the top 15 at 140 or 140, led to the sanctioning bodies making the fight a non-title fight.

“He’s [Garcia] kind of been put in a lose-lose situation almost,” Salka said about Garcia’s situation via RingTV. “He can’t win. All he can do is not lose. If he comes out and destroys me, he’s still going to catch a lot of flak about it.”

Garcia thinks that fans won’t care that he’s facing a non-top 15 lightweight for this fight, because they’ll be watching to see him perform and look good. He may have a point. Fans that are huge Garcia fans, rather than fans of just boxing, won’t likely care that he’s been given a soft touch by his management. However, the fans that are watching the fight expecting a competitive fight might not be pleased if Garcia wipes Salka out quickly or totally dominates him.

If he carries Salka to the later rounds and doesn’t destroy him, it’ll please some fans. However, the fans will still give Garcia grief because it’ll be another less than dominating performance by him. He’s already coming off of a controversial 12 round decision over Mauricio Herrera from last March.

In his fight before that, Garcia clinched and low-blowed his way to a 12 round decision over Lucas Matthysse in a fight that was not pleasing to the eye. But Garcia to move on from those two fights to him facing a lightweight, and not a particularly great one, just looks like he’s milking his title in front of fans in the U.S. Fights like this are perhaps better off of cable so that the best fights can be put on for the fans.



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