Looks like Garcia will take the mandatory. The good thing about this is that it means that Garcia is serious about making a Loma fight.
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Looks like Garcia will take the mandatory. The good thing about this is that it means that Garcia is serious about making a Loma fight.
There was never any reason to question Garcia wanting Loma, the only question was will Bob allow it. Glad to see this fight being made, step on throats Mikey.
And may the best fighter between Garcia/Loma win, the fans win either way.
Alright alright this is a step in the right direction for Garcia who has honestly been a bit all over the place. But this is an indicator on target Loma as well as fulfilling a credible mandatory defense.
The WBC ordering the mandatory is no hindrance unless someone wants it to be a hindrance like AJ using it to avoid Wilder before this time he used fake negotiation.
If Arum wants the fight to happen it will happen, if Arum doesn’t it won’t. There really is no other factor
There's more to it than that, and at the end of the day, it takes 2 to tango. Mikey needs to forget everyone else (Spence), defend the title, while saying he wants to unify the division. Loma is already talking that way.
The fight is big either way, but without the WBC title involved, it takes some of the shine off.
The WBC is not going to strip someone headed to PPV(whoever wins between Mikey and Loma becomes a regular PPV fighter) to hand it to be fought in a vacancy fight between people making a fraction and thus paying a fraction in fees.
Garcia/Loma is simple to make because Garcia/Loma call the shots in and around their weight class. Seriously, if Bob wants the fight nothing stops it from happening
As much as I like unification the belts are just belts. Garcia and Loma are beyond them at LW IMO. If they were stripped of all belts to make I would still want it. 2 guys the same size at the same time and same age at the top of their division, that’s my kind of party.
Lots of forward motion by then with Loma very likely to have Pedrazas tin by then and should Garcia shine v Commey he'll have then beaten wbc #2 and all the pieces align for a super fight fans require. I can't see Garcia jumping through hoops to face Campbell if a Loma match is even closer and I don't put anything past the wbc be it strip or Mikey dropping the trinket to grab real legacy. Belts are temporary and shouldn't be treated like anchors.