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Well if I were a Broner fan, those are the four guys I would NOT want matched up with him right nowThose are all good fights
You and I have always had the same matchups for AB in mind. We were the only ones saying he should stay at 135 and try to acquire all the belts before moving up
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Now its #LastMealLegion or #LeftOutToPastureLegion
When Roy took that nikkas soul
#TheRealCaptainHook
You can tell by every interview Oscar gives that he knows this card is pure dogshyt but he has to try and sell it anyway.De La Hoya Reacts To Critics of Garcia-Salka Card
Posted by: Bill Emes on 7/4/2014 .
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By Bill "Two Scoops" Emes
Golden Boy Promotions President Oscar De La Hoya has reacted to the negative press from the writers, and the negative comments from the fans, with respect to the Showtime televised championship tripleheader on August 9th from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Boxing pundits, and most of the fans, showered negativity on the main event which features WBC/WBA junior welterweight champion Danny Garcia defending his titles against lightweight contender Rod Salka (19-3, 3KOs), who is not ranked at junior welterweight and his biggest win came against untested Cuban prospect Alexei Collado.
There were similar remarks about the co-featured fight between IBF champion Lamont Peterson and Puerto Rican contender Edgar Santana (29-4, 20KOs). But the last time Santana pulled off a significant win was a 2008 decision (where Santana was nearly KO'd in the eight) over Josesito Lopez. He was inactive for three years due to legal issues. And since coming back in 2011, Santana has not beaten any opponents close to Peterson's level.
De La Hoya acknowledges the two fights are not pretty on paper, but he believes the underdogs will create exciting contests which are going to replicate his recent tripleheader last month in Carson.
"The only way that you can respond to [to the negative reaction] is by the fighters performing in the ring. Look - we can tell a story, we can try to convince the world of this and that, but what history shows is that the underdog is always alive, the underdog always has that shot. The underdog came out on top on a lot of occasions - like Danny Garcia with Lucas Matthysse. Everybody thought Lucas Matthysse would beat him easy. Danny was the underdog and look at what he did. Look at Marcos Maidana with Adrien Broner. Broner thought it was going to be a walk in the park and look at what Maidana did," De La Hoya told BoxingScene.com.
"You can never count out an underdog in America. This card is a card where people are going to see it on paper [and criticize it], but you watch I think we are going to get a lot of surprises on August 9th."
"We are all about going back to the roots of boxing, going back to making the best fights happen. We had a tremendous night at the Home Depot Center. Where, again, people didn't expect Kamegai to give such a great performance, people didn't expect Soto Karass to give another spectacular performance against Devon Alexander. He showed that heart, that fighting spirit that he wants to be world champion again. That's what its all about. What we got were entertaining fights, what we got were fights where nobody expected would be entertaining fights."
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I think we all know why he is fighting Salka...:hayking:
At the press conference Angel spent more time talking about Herrera than Salka. He knows the dude is a tomato can.Angel Garcia: Rod Salka Being Treated Like a Nobody!
Posted by: Bill Emes on 7/5/2014 .
By Bill "Two Scoops" Emes
Angel Garcia, father and trainer of WBC/WBA junior welterweight champion Danny Garcia (28-0, 16KOs), says upcoming opponent Rod Salka (19-3, 3KOs) is being treated like a nobody by the fans and the press. The fight headlines a Showtime televised tripleheader on August 9th from the Barclays Center in Las Vegas.
Despite being a huge underdog, Angel is not taking him lightly. They plans to train just as hard as they did for their big fights against Amir Khan and Lucas Matthysse.
"They are already saying it now [that he's a nobody]. They are already saying it and the fight is not even here. They already got the guy like he's a nobody. I'm still going to respect him as a person, because any time you put gloves [on] you have to respect that," Angel told BoxingScene.com.
"I am not going to underestimate him. We are going to train very hard. We are going to train like were training for Khan. We are going to train like were training for Matthysse. We're not taking nothing away. If anything we are going to add things]. If Danny goes out there and knocks him out, they are already saying that he's a nobody. Now if it goes the distance, they are going to say that Danny lost or whatever the fukk happens."
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Angel.....he IS a nobody
He's ranked #77 in the world as a LIGHTWEIGHT.....he's not even a Junior Welterweight
Yes, people are gonna talk shyt about a Champion defending his belts against the night shift manager at the local Philadelphia Sunoco.
You and Haymon picked the opponent, Danny agreed to fight em, so live with the backlash
Gomez straight outclassed that undefeated European
Gomez-Lebedev anyone?
Cant imagine being like 190 pounds and an elite boxer. Stuck in the only division that absoluteny no one gives a shyt about
Weird as fukk how dumb boxing is. Most men are 175-200 pounds and that division no one cares about. Light heavyweight under it but over you is heavyweight. Why is that even called LHW?
..thats how it goes..cruisers is actually one of the more exciting divisions..they are a glimpse of what heavies used to be like in a way..but its been a division dominated by euros or fighters who cant make 175.if there wasnt a cruiserweight division..youd see 175-200 lb nikkas trying to fight big 220-240 lb nikkas of today when their body or skillset isnt up to that
