By Chris Williams: Danny Garcia says he wants fights against Keith Thurman, Mikey Garcia, and Kell Brook when he returns to the ring. Garcia’s comeback is long overdue, and he’s going to need to make a move soon, or else it’ll be too late.
A rematch with ‘One Time’ Thurman (30-1-1 22 KOs) would be interesting for Danny if he could persuade the former WBA/WBC 147-lb champion to take it.
Thurman has been calling out Errol Spence Jr, and he might get lucky this year if ‘The Truth’ defeats Yordenis Ugas next month in their unification fight on April 16th.
The former two-division world champion Garcia (36-3 21 KOs) hasn’t fought since his loss to IBF/WBC welterweight champion Errol Spence Jr. in December 2020. Still, he’s showing interest in restarting his stalled career.
Danny says a fight against WBO welterweight champion Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford is one that he’d like because the two have “history” from their amateur days.
Garcia just turned 34 on March 20th, and it’s pretty clear that he’s going to need to get up off the couch soon if he doesn’t want to be forgotten entirely by the boxing public.
“I didn’t speak no names yet, but I would love to fight Thurman again. I would love to fight Kell Brook,” said Danny Garcia to Fight Hub TV. “I would love to fight Mikey Garcia or potentially a Crawford fight. Not next, but that’s a big fight because we have a history.”
Danny might be too late to fight the 35-year-old Kell Brook because he’s expected to hang up his gloves after one more fight.
If Garcia wanted to fight the former IBF welterweight champion Brook, he should have done it a long time ago because his career has been sinking since his back-to-back defeats against Gennadiy Golovkin and Errol Spence Jr in 2016 and 2017.
According to Celebrity Net Worth, Danny Garcia’s net worth is $8 million. You can only imagine the money Danny would have made if he’d been active in the last two years since his loss to Spence in 2020.
That’s how it goes, though. It might be too late for Danny to get the big fights he’s talking about because the only ones worthwhile, Thurman and Crawford, are trying to get the Spence fight.
“I feel like he needs somebody like me,” said Danny about Crawford. “There’s no big fights in the welterweight division without Danny Garcia. All you have to do is look at the numbers.
“When Thurman fought me, there were 16,500 people in the Barclay’s Center [in 2017], and 5 million people were watching. In his very next fight when he fought Josesito Lopez [after two years out of the ring in 2019], there was nobody in the stands, nobody cared about the fight,” said Garcia.
Danny’s fight with Thurman might have been ancient history, as far as the younger boxing fans go. That fight took place in 2017, and it was too long ago for the newer fans of the sport to have heard about it.
Danny and Thurman should have fought a rematch years ago instead of happening now or next year.
Will boxing fans still be interested in seeing Danny and Thurman battle five or six years later? Some might, but not nearly as many as it could have been.
“When I fought Porter, we put 14,000 people in the Barclays Center [in 2018] and did crazy numbers on Showtime,” said Danny. “In his very next fight, he fought Ugas [in March 2019] in California, and there was no one there. No one even cared about the fight.
“All you have to do is look at the numbers. There are no big fights in the welterweight division without Danny Garcia. The numbers don’t lie. All you have to do is look at the scorecards,” said Garcia.
