There is no question that Danny Garcia looked a little nervous after Lucas Matthysse knocked out LaMont Peterson. When the fight between him and Matthysse wasn’t signed immediately, people went after him on social media calling him a coward.
But, Garcia is a man of his word and has never ducked anyone, so the fight was eventually signed. I can tell you while Mayweather vs. Canelo has all the mainstream buzz, Garcia vs. Matthysse is the most intriguing fight to a lot of hardcore boxing fans like myself.
Garcia spoke to ESPN and laid out his gameplan while explaining why Matthysse is more hype than anything else.
“[Matthysse] is buzzing a little bit off his last couple of victories, and people are hyping him up,” Garcia said. “I think he’s a good fighter and has good power, but most of his knockouts were in Argentina, where he didn’t fight anyone and built up his record. When he came here [to the United States] and fought people who could hit him back, he lost.”
“What happens when I back him up? Can he fight on his heels? The momentum of the fight will change. I will back him up, too. That’s what you’ll see. I’m gonna come to the fight, and, if it ends in a knockout, it’s him getting knocked out because I can’t ever see myself getting knocked out. I guarantee you that if he comes out swinging at me like he did against Peterson, he will go down. I think Peterson was scared because he was backing up. I am not scared.”
Just reading the comments has me even more hyped for the fight. If Garcia is a man of his word, then someone will get knocked out.