Danny Garcia: I don’t lose!

By Boxing News - 02/05/2015 - Comments

garcia67By Dan Ambrose: WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (29-0, 17 KOs) doesn’t think too highly of his next opponent IBF 140lb champion Lamont Peterson (33-2-1, 17 KOs), who he’ll be facing on April 11th in the United States at a still yet to be determined venue.

There’s been talk of the Garcia-Peterson fight taking place at a catch-weight of 143 pounds, but Garcia is now saying that the fight could be at 140 in order to make it a unification match.

Garcia wants to move up to welterweight, which is why he’s fighting at catch-weights above the 140 pound division. He doesn’t just want to move up to 147 and start fighting, even though it probably won’t make any difference if he works his way into fighting at that weight slowly.

The best fighters like Mayweather simply move up a division rather than looking for handicaps to slowly work their way up.

“You’ve got to fight the best to be the best. I feel like I’m the best and we just going to go at it.” Garcia said via Fighthype.com. “He’s never fought anybody like me. I don’t lose. I’ve never even been down before. I’m a soldier. He fights scared. He hits and he runs. People don’t want to see that. He just hits and runs all the time. People want to see you fight and hit. People want to see blood. I’m predicting a KO.”

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Danny Garcia says he doesn’t lose. I think Mauricio Herrera might have something to say about that, because he – and a lot of boxing fans – feel that Herrera beat Garcia in their fight last year in March of 2014 in Puerto Rico. Herrera lost the fight by a 12 round majority decision, but a lot of fans saw that as a case of Garcia getting a hometown decision in his father’s home country.

If you watch that fight, it’s difficult to see Garcia as having won it. The strange thing is, Garcia isn’t bothered by the boxing fans who say he lost the fight. Garcia doesn’t feel like he should have to face Herrera again. This is why Garcia has moved on from the “win” and has since fought little lightweight 2nd tier fighter Rod Salka in his last fight in a terrible mismatch last August, and Garcia is now fighting Lamont Peterson, a fighter who was destroyed by Lucas Matthysse in three rounds in May of 2013. Garcia defeated Matthysse in an ugly clinch-filled and low-filled fight in September of 2013.

What’s interesting about what Garcia is saying about Lamont Peterson running and holding a lot, is that Garcia held, and ran from Matthysse through much of their fight in May of 2013. Garcia added a twist where he landed a lot of low blows in addition to his running and holding. That’s why it seems so funny that Garcia is taking a shot at Peterson for him running and holding, when Garcia did the same thing in order to get a victory over Matthysse.

It’s unknown at this point if Garcia will finally move up to the welterweight division after the Peterson fight or if he’ll continue to fight light welterweights in catch-weight fights. The Salka fight was at a catch-weight, and the Peterson fight could be at a catch-weight.



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