Danny Garcia boxing news
By Dan Ambrose: The WBC has ordered a purse bid on September 12th for a fight between WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (29-0, 17 KOs) and his #1 WBC mandatory challenger Viktor Postol, according to RingTV.
Garcia and Postol are in the free negotiations period where they’re management can put together the fight without it going to purse bids. With Garcia, it’s unknown whether he’ll stay at 147 to defend his title against someone as difficult to fight as the 5’11” Postol.
By Dan Ambrose: If you were wondering why WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (29-0, 17 KOs) agreed to fight a little unranked lightweight named Rod Salka (19-4, 3 KOs) in his last fight on Showtime this month, Garcia says that he’s thinking about his career. He says fighters have a short career, and it’s a business thing.
“Fans last forever; boxing is a short-term career,” Garcia said to Fighthype. “I got to do what’s best for my life and my career. You can be 70-years-old and a fan. I can only box for another 10 years. I got to do what’s best for me.”
"Fans want it, fighters want it, GBP wants it. Getting moving on
Garcia/Peterson"
— Oscar De La Hoya (@OscarDeLaHoya) August 13, 2014
By Dan Ambrose: Responding to small pockets of interest from boxing fans in a potential unification fight between IBF light welterweight champion Lamont Peterson and WBA/WBC 140 pound champion Danny Garcia, Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya says he’s going to start working on putting together the fight. He wants to make the fight for the fans, who really aren’t beating down Golden Boy’s door to see the fight. To honest, Peterson still hasn’t been looked at the same way by fans ever since he was obliterated by Lucas Matthysse. Fans would probably prefer to see a Garcia vs. Matthysse rematch or Garcia vs. Mauricio Herrera rather than seeing Garcia matched up against a guy that Matthysse easily beat in Peterson.
By Dan Ambrose: As expected, last Saturday’s Danny Garcia vs. Rod Salka triple-header fight card on Showtime brought in poor numbers. It was a night of mismatches, and the poor numbers reflect dismal match-making that was done for this fight.
According to Dan Rafael of ESPN, the card averaged 612K viewers. The main event fight between Garcia and unranked lightweight Rod Salka averaged 808K viewers with a peak of 850. This was 17% lower than Garcia’s last fight against Mauricio Herrera, which brought in 972K. The poor match-making for Garcia led to a lower amount of viewers.
The co-feature fight between IBF light welterweight champion Lamont Peterson and #13 IBF Edgar Santana averaged 648K. This too was a mismatch with Peterson hitting Santana at will until the ringside doctor ordered the fight stopped in the 10th.
By Dan Ambrose: WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (29-0, 17 KOs) was ecstatic last night with his accomplishment of having beaten lightweight Rod Salka (19-4, 3 KOs) by a 2nd round knockout.
Garcia says that he could have done the same thing to any other fighter in the division if they had been in the ring with him last night instead of Salka.
Sounding like a lecturer instead of a fighter, Garcia said after the fight “There are no easy fights in boxing. The [Mauricio] Herrera fight was supposed to be an easy fight for me, and I listened to people and had a bad performance. I’m in charge at 140. I can beat everybody at 140. It’s not even a question. I want to do everything that Golden Boy wants me to do, and everything that Al Haymon wants me to do.”
congratulations to my Goldenboy team for putting together a great show. As always You shine in Your work. You are GoldenBoy.
— Oscar De La Hoya (@OscarDeLaHoya) August 10, 2014
By Allan Fox: Oscar De La Hoya reportedly was unable to attend last night’s fights at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York because of a family emergency being ill, according to Dan Rafael of ESPN. But De La Hoya sent a message of congratulations to fighters anyway with the above tweet.
By Jim Dower: Former three division world champion Adrien Broner (28-1, 22 KOs) says he’s going to be looking to capture his 4th division world title in the near future when he goes after a world title at 140.
He’s a tune-up bout coming up on September 6th against Emmanuel Taylor (18-2, 12 KOs) at the U.S Bank Arena in Cincinnati, Ohio. After that, Broner’s schedule is open. He says he’d fight WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia if it’s a fight that makes sense.
If the fight against Garcia makes business sense for him, Broner will take it. He’s also interested in a rematch with Marcos Maidana after he faces Floyd Mayweather Jr on September 13th.
(Photo Credit: Amanda Kwok / SHOWTIME) By Bob Smith: In a dominant win last night, WBA, WBC and Ring magazine light welterweight champion Danny Garcia defeated Rod “lightening rod” Salka by a 2nd round knockout. After a quiet round one, in which Rod Salka circled the ring, jabbed and used movement to avoid the left hook of Garcia, Danny Garcia dominated the second round with counter punching and landed the much harder shots to put Salka down three times and achieve the TKO victory.
It was a fight that was hard to watch after the first knockdown from Garcia, who hurt Salka a great deal with a punch in the earlier part of the second round. Salka immediately looked to the referee for protection against Garcia and ended up going down about five seconds later. Following this knockdown, Garcia focused on putting Salka away, and consistently threw very big punches while Salka attempted to hold as much as he could to stave off the attack and to regain some energy and balance.
(Photo Credit: Amanda Kwok / SHOWTIME) By Dan Ambrose: It was clear going into WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia’s fight last Saturday night that he had a tremendous mismatch on his hands with little unranked lightweight Rod Salka (19-4, 3 KOs), but Garcia still couldn’t resist gloating about the victory after having beaten the over-matched fighter in the 2nd round at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Garcia hurt Salka with a right hand early in the 2nd round after having pounded him at will in the 1st. Garcia then dropped Salka hard with a fight hand. He later in the same round knocked him out cold with a left hook to the head. Salka’s trainer was trying to get the referee’s attention to have the fight stopped moments before Garcia nailed Salka with the huge left hook knockout blow to the head, but the referee didn’t see him.
(Photo Credit: Amanda Kwok / SHOWTIME) By Dan Ambrose: WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (29-0, 17 KOs) rebounded tonight from his gift decision over Mauricio Herrera in his last fight by stopping little known lightweight Rod Salka (19-4, 3 KOs) in a 2nd round TKO tonight.
Garcia was like a standup comic after the fight when being interviewed by Jim Gray. Garcia wasn’t trying to be funny but he was nonetheless when he said “I’m all about fighting the best fighters. I leave that up to Al Haymon, but if (Lamont Peterson) wants it he can get it too.”