On Wednesday’s BoxingScene Today, Garcia revealed: “It is very true, the fight is very close… Eric Gomez, Vergil Ortiz Snr, Rick Mirigian, they all came to me and asked me what I think about the fight. I said, ‘Let’s do it, there’s no need to wait [or] get a fight before that.’ A lot of people think Vergil needs a fight before that. No he doesn’t, Vergil fought less than a year ago.”