Quote Originally Posted by Rantcatrat View Post
Garcia is the man at junior welterweight. He beat the boogeyman in the division in his last fight, which is his best win. Herrera does not deserve a fight with the man in the division. He's not even ranked in the top ten. It's not like Garcia doesn't have options at 140 either. He has better opponents around his weight class that he can get in the ring with in Puerto Rico. There are many more legacy-defining fights for him, and fights that are consistent with his current trajectory. What does this do for his career? It's disappointing and I get the PR thing, but that doesn't mean he couldn't have gone with a better choice of opponent to face in PR. Frankly, at the end of the day, Garcia probably will have a year (his last fight was in September 2013) in the middle of his career that won't really matter. It doesn't make sense to me unless the point is not to take a risky fight when he has fights with Broner/Mayweather lined up for the future.
Exactly. I don't get why most boxing fans don't understand that. You win a huge fight, you gain huge momentum, you wanna keep that rolling into a bigger fight. It's a step down, it does nothing for his heat or momentum. He wins, so what. He loses, oops there goes all his momentum. Pointless fight that no one is clamoring for. Nobody said "I wonder how he'd do against Herrera." If people aren't thinking about a hypothetical fight, it's probably a shit fight.