Trainer Robert Garcia fielded a few questions about some recent topics in the boxing world, including what he makes of Keyshawn Davis turning down a title shot against Devin Haney, and what the upcoming plans for Bam Rodriguez are considering there had been rumblings of a potential fight with Naoya Inoue. Here\u2019s some of what he had to say below.<\/p>\n
Garcia on Keyshawn opting out of Haney fight<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he never really wanted the fight,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cI think he started calling him out and \u2018I want the fight, make it happen\u2019 and this and that, to put his name up there with Haney, with Shakur. Those are big names in boxing and he\u2019s up there too, but not in that level. So, he wanted his name up there. And when it came true he\u2019s like \u2018oh, sh-t\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201c$3M is a lot of money for any fighter right now in boxing, a lot of money. Unless you\u2019re dealing with Turki, you\u2019re a big name\u2026Keyshawn\u2019s not there yet. He\u2019s not that guy yet. So, to get there you got to take this \u2018smaller\u2019 portion of the pie to get there.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe he never really wanted it. Maybe he knows he\u2019s not ready for it. Maybe he doesn\u2019t feel that he\u2019s ready for it, that\u2019s why he\u2019d rather step away. Stepping away from that kind of money shows the world he never really wanted that fight.\u201d<\/p>\n
On what\u2019s the plan for Bam Rodriguez next<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t got a date\u2026[Eddie Hearn] hasn\u2019t heard anything and I have heard anything from Inoue\u2019s people. Inoue has said March is the latest, he\u2019ll wait \u2018til March \u2014 well, at least reach out to us and tell us, make us an offer. But Eddie told me that he hasn\u2019t had an offer, I haven\u2019t had an offer either.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, we\u2019re moving on. November, early December is going to be Bam\u2019s next fight. Will definitely have to be a unification. There\u2019s two Mexican champions that are the IBF and the WBO and then Inoue\u2019s brother. So, that would also be a big fight.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo if Inoue\u2019s saying he doesn\u2019t want to wait longer than March, then we take care of this fight and we\u2019ll be ready for March\u2026But at least let us know what\u2019s going on. Do you guys really want to fight Bam? Let\u2019s negotiate, let\u2019s get to business. But we\u2019re going to take this fight before that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trainer Robert Garcia fielded a few questions about some recent topics in the boxing world, including what he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-863394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}