Danny Garcia: I should have been a pound-for-pound fighter a long time ago

garcia-mansour (4)By Dan Ambrose: Unbeaten #2 WBC Danny Garcia (31-0, 18 KOs) will be going into this Saturday’s fight with a big chip on his shoulder when he battles for the vacant WBC welterweight title against #6 WBC Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero (33-3-1, 18 KOs) on Premier Boxing Champions on Fox Sports from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.

The unbeaten Garcia feels that he should have already been on Ring Magazine’s pound-for-pound list by this point in his career for his years of holding down the WBA/WBC 140lb titles. However, Ring Magazine has kept the 27-year-old Garcia out of their top 10 pound-for-pound ratings for some reason.

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Danny Garcia: This fight is going to make me a bigger star

Image: Danny Garcia: This fight is going to make me a bigger starBy Dan Ambrose: Former WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (31-0, 18 KOs) will be taking a step up in competition this Saturday night when he faces Robert Guerrero (33-3-1, 18 KOs) for the vacant WBC welterweight title at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California.

Normally, this wouldn’t be considered a step up for a fighter to be facing a fading fighter like Guerrero, but for Garcia, it has to be seen as a step up. Garcia has been fighting guys like Paulie Malignaggi and lightweight Rod Salka recently in record-padding fights.

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Danny Garcia – Robert Guerrero quotes

LOS ANGELES (January 20, 2016) – “Fight Week on FOX in L.A.” continued on Wednesday as fighters competing on Saturday’s Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) on FOX and FOX Deportes card held a media workout before they enter the ring at STAPLES Center.

Wednesday’s workout featured undefeated star Danny “Swift” Garcia and former world champion Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero as they prepare for their welterweight world championship showdown. Also in attendance and competing on Saturday are welterweights Sammy “The Sergeant” Vasquez and Aron Martinez plus heavyweights Dominic “Trouble” Breazeale and Amir “Hardcore” Mansour. Televised fights begin at 4 p.m. PT inside of the arena with the FOX and FOX Deportes broadcast beginning at 5 p.m. PT.

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Khan wants winner of Danny Garcia – Robert Guerrero

khan101By Scott Gilfoid: Well, it doesn’t look like IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook is going to be getting the stadium fight against Amir Khan (31-3, 19 KOs) for June of this year that he’s been blabbering about. Brook and his promoter Eddie Hearn have been hoping that a fight could be arranged against Khan for June at Wembley Stadium in London, UK. However, Khan is now saying he wants to fight the winner of this Saturday’s fight between Danny Garcia and Robert Guerrero.

Those two fighters are battling for the vacant WBC welterweight title. #1 WBC Khan wants to face the winner of the fight so that he can try and pick up the WBC belt. For some reason the World Boxing Council bypassed Khan in order to bless the Garcia-Guerrero fight for the WBC title.

It was a weird move because those two fighters are both ranked below Khan. The winner of the Garcia vs. Guerrero fight will be a paper champion and not considered to be the main guy because of the Mickey Mouse way that the WBC set it up.

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Robert Guerrero wants to prove haters/haters wrong on Saturday

guerrero (2)By Dan Ambrose: The struggling Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero (33-3-1, 18 KOs) will be trying to turn his career around this Saturday against unbeaten and very lucky Danny Garcia (31-0, 18 KOs) at the Stables Center in Los Angeles, California. Guerrero is seen by a lot of fans as the B-side victim in this fight against Garcia, and people doubt that he can win the fight. The Guerrero vs. Garcia fight will be televised on Premier Boxing Champions on Fox.

The two fighters will be facing off for the vacant WBC welterweight title that was recently stripped from Floyd Mayweather Jr. It would be a big feather in Guerrero’s cap if he could beat Garcia and prove the doubters wrong in this fight. It’s unfortunate but, Guerrero has not looked good in his last four fights.

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Danny Garcia vs. Robert Guerrero on Saturday at Staples Center, in Los Angeles, CA

Ruben GuerreroBy Dan Ambrose: Ruben Garcia, the trainer/father of #6 WBC Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero (33-3-1, 18 KOs), took a shot at #2 WBC Danny Garcia (31-0, 18 KOs) this past week in saying he’s not Puerto Rican and he doesn’t know what he is.

Garcia’s parents are Puerto Rican, but he was born in the United States. Garcia and Guerrero will be facing each other this Saturday night on Premier Boxing Champions on Fox at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.

“We got a lot of Latinos, Chicanos and all the Mexicanos and all the haters, especially all the haters,” Ruben said to Martin Gallegos. They’re going to find out when we win and they’re going to come from us, bro. All the haters and the doubters. I think they’re [the fans] going for us. This guy [Garcia] doesn’t speak a Latin word or Puerto Rico. Like they say, he’s not a real Puerto Rican. He just says he is but he’s not. I don’t know what he is. We haven’t figured that out yet. He’s got to find it out. It’s going to be his nightmare. He’s going to figure it out quick,” Ruben said.

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Robert Guerrero wants to prove his doubters wrong

guerrero12334(Photo credit: Brett Ostrowski / Mario Serrano Team Guerrero) By Dan Ambrose: Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero (33-3-1, 18 KOs) is well aware that his opponent Danny Garcia (31-0, 18 KOs) has already predicted a fifth round knockout in their scheduled fight on January 23.

Guerrero will need to show the boxing world that they were wrong to see him as a washed up fighter that was only picked out for the 27-year-old Garcia in order to get a sure thing title. With the way that Guerrero has looked recently in his last four fights, it is hard to argue in his favor for not being an over-the-hill fighter.

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Garcia-Guerrero given huge gift by WBC to fight for 147lb title

garcia955By Dan Ambrose: The WBC did Danny Garcia and Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero (33-3-1, 18 KOs) a huge gift by allowing them to fight for their vacant WBC welterweight title on January 23.

On Tuesday of this week, the WBC announced that they were letting the Garcia-Guerrero fight be for the vacant WBC 147lb strap. The move let Guerrero skip over four higher ranking contenders in the WBC rankings.

Here are the fighters that Guerrero was able to skip past to fight for the WBC welterweight title:

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Khan made WBC mandatory challenger to Garcia-Guerrero winner

Image: Khan made WBC mandatory challenger to Garcia-Guerrero winnerBy Scott Gilfoid: In what could prove to be a pointless endeavor, the World Boxing Council has made #1 WBC Amir Khan (31-3, 19 KOs) the mandatory challenger to the winner of the January 23rd fight between Danny Garcia and Roberto Guerrero. Those two fighters will be battling for the vacant WBC welterweight title in their clash at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.

Yesterday, the WBC announced that the Garcia vs. Guerrero fight would be for the vacant WBC 147lb title. Khan was leapfrogged by #6 WBC Guerrero for the honor of fighting for the WBC title. However, it really doesn’t matter because Khan has been inactive and he likely would have no to a fight against Garcia if it were offered to him regardless of the WBC title being on the line.

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Danny Garcia vs. Robert Guerrero for vacant WBC 147lb title

guerrero55By Dan Ambrose: The World Boxing Council has revealed that unbeaten #2 WBC Danny Garcia (31-0, 18 KOs) and #6 WBC Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero (33-3, 18 KOs) will be fighting for the vacant WBC welterweight [147 pound] title when they face each other on January 23 on Premier Boxing Champions on Fox Sports from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. This WBC stripped Floyd Mayweather Jr. of the WBC 147lb title due to him retiring. This past week, the WBA rejected the idea of having the Garcia-Guerrero fight as a title fight for their WBA “super” welterweight title. However, the WBC didn’t feel the same way and is allowing Garcia and Guerrero to fight for their vacant WBC 147lb title.

In addition to Guerrero and Garcia fighting for the vacant WBC welterweight title, the WBC will make the Jermell Charlo vs. John Jackson fight be for the vacant WBC junior middleweight title. This fight makes more sense because Charlo is ranked #1 by the WBC and Jackson #2.

The WBC’s rankings for 154 is a little mixed up, because you can make an argument that Jackson does not rate a No.2 ranking after his knockout loss to Andy Lee.

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