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<\/p>\nDanny Garcia can barely wait for the first question before answering the one I have yet to even ask. He leans back, grins and delivers his own opening line: \u201cI\u2019m ending this spectacular career with a W.\u201d<\/p>\n
The two-weight former world champion laces his gloves for one last dance this Saturday, headlining his own Swift Promotions show against Daniel Gonzalez at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The super welterweight fight is the closing act of a career written in brilliance and brutality \u2014 his twin defeats of Mexican legend Erik Morales in 2012, his ruthless finish of Amir Khan between them, and his famed night against Zab Judah in 2013 that captivated a fervent Brooklyn crowd. Garcia’s later run saw him share the ring with Lucas Matthysse, Robert Guerrero, Keith Thurman, Shawn Porter and Errol Spence \u2014 a gauntlet that helped carve his name into boxing\u2019s modern history.<\/p>\n
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Now, his next fight is his last.<\/p>\n
This weekend is a farewell to the Barclays Center, the stage for so many of his most electrifying fight nights, and a farewell as a boxer. But it\u2019s not a farewell to the sport.<\/p>\n
For Garcia, the fight simply shifts from inside the ropes to outside them, as he looks to follow in the footsteps of his former promoter Oscar De La Hoya, the Hall of Fame six-weight world champion who went on to become a frontman for Golden Boy Promotions, and Al Haymon, who guided much of Garcia\u2019s career with Premier Boxing Champions.<\/p>\n
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Between them, De La Hoya and Haymon helped rewrite the sport \u2014 one laid a blueprint for a fighter to reinvent themselves as a promoter, and the other showed boxers how they could maximize their earning power. For Garcia, learning from both means inheriting the vision of one and the security of the other.<\/p>\n
\u201cOscar has always been one of my inspirations,\u201d Garcia told Uncrowned ahead of his swan song. \u201cHe was a great fighter, and when he was my promoter, they built me up the right way.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI would love to, one day, be like the Golden Boys, or Top Ranks, or Matchrooms. I know I\u2019ve got my work cut out for me \u2014 but this is a good start.\u201d<\/p>\n
If De La Hoya showed Garcia how a fighter could build an empire, Haymon showed him how to protect one. \u201cThat is a person who just came down from heaven, onto your lap, and just changed your life. Really,” Garcia said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are only two people I owe the world to: Al Haymon, and my father, Angel Garcia.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Garcia said he\u2019ll borrow lessons from Haymon\u2019s quiet influence, but Swift Promotions must have its own identity, if only because “you cannot replicate Al Haymon,” he said, “You have to go your own way.” As for Angel, Garcia carved out a means for his next venture to continue being a family affair. \u201cPops is already involved and already there,” he said. “He owns shares in the company. So no matter how it goes, he\u2019ll be alright.\u201d<\/p>\n
Though his education came from two of the game\u2019s greats, Garcia is well aware that the sport he’s about to inherit as a promoter looks markedly different to the one he entered as a fighter. Boxing today is fragmented, and broadcasters have fled. It\u2019s a far cry from the channels Garcia fought on in his heyday, from the pinnacle of premium platforms like HBO Sports and Showtime Sports.<\/p>\n
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Danny Garcia looks on as his father, Angel Garcia, ties his boxing gloves at his home gym in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
(Isaiah Vazquez via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
This era is \u201cdefinitely different,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cThere’s less shows, and the streaming era is tough. I think it’s all about timing and being in the right place at the right time. You never know what these streaming companies need. They might need diversity, and they might need sports. So you just got to build your company up and see where you land one day.<\/p>\n
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\u201cA dream of mine is for HBO and Showtime to come back, as I think those were the best days in boxing, to be honest with you. Boxing had a home for 40 years, combined. Fighters really had a home. And I hope the sport finds a new home.\u201d<\/p>\n
The regulation of the sport appears set to change, too.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, the California State Athletic Commission unanimously voted to endorse the Muhammad Ali American Boxing Revival Act<\/a>, despite overwhelming opposition from the public<\/a>, including from many ex-UFC fighters.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n If the bill gets passed through Congress, it will allow Zuffa Boxing to create a Unified Boxing Organization (UBO) within the sport, run its own rankings system, award its own championship, and organize its own events \u2014 much like how UFC operates in MMA.<\/p>\n