(Photo credit: Tom Casino/Showtime) By Dan Ambrose: WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (28-0, 16 KO’s) said he’s open to facing former IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan if his promoter Richard Schaefer of Golden Boy Promotions or if his manager Al Haymon wants him to. Garcia defeated Khan by a 4th round TKO two years ago in a big upset.
Instead of thinking about Khan, Garcia should be more focused on erasing the controversy about his 12 round majority decision victory over Mauricio Herrera last night at the Coliseo Ruben Rodriguez, Bayamon, in Puerto Rico. Garcia won the fight, but not too many people believe he deserved to get the decision. The judges scored it 114-114, 116-112, 116-112. However, at best, Garcia looked like he deserved to get a draw out of the fight, and that’s only if you ignored how Herrera clearly got the better of him through the crucial last 6 rounds of the fight.
“I already beat him [Khan] once,” Garcia said. “If Richard [Schaefer] and Al [Haymon] decide to make that fight [against Khan]. Sure, I’ll fight him and I’ll beat him again.”
It’s a good idea that Garcia should fight Khan in order to get a fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr., because right now there are probably few fans who would want to pay to see a mismatch between Mayweather and Garcia.
If Garcia can’t even beat a limited fighter like Herrera without controversy while fighting in front of a pro-Garcia crowd in Puerto Rico, then it’s probably not too realistic that he’ll be able to score another stoppage win over Khan in a rematch. Garcia certainly wouldn’t be able to out-box Khan to earn a decision because he doesn’t have those kinds of skills. Holding Khan and/or hitting him with low blows wouldn’t do the job. Those things worked against Lucas Matthysse for Garcia, but he doesn’t have boxing skills and he was just trying to take Garcia’s head off with every punch instead of trying to box him.
Garcia’s face was badly swollen from Herrera’s punches by the end of their fight, and he looked like the beaten fighter rather than Herrera.
While Herrera clearly deserves a rematch against Garcia, there’s zero chance of that happening. Schaefer and Haymon will move Garcia ahead to try and angle him for a big money fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. for September, although Garcia is the last person that deserves a fight against Mayweather after the way he fought against Herrera.
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