Danny Garcia Beats Robert Guerrero – Boxing News
By Anthony “Stacks” Saldaña (At Ringside)
Saturday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California the PBC Series brought fight fans the WBC Welterweight Championship match between Danny “Swift” Garcia 32-0, 18 KO’s and Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero, 33-4-1, 18 KO’s. In the early rounds Guerrero brought the pressure to Garcia hitting him with big shots busting up Garcia early. Danny recovered from a slow start and largely controlled the later rounds to win the WBC world title vacated by Floyd “Money” Mayweather. All three judges scored it the same way I saw it from press row 116-112. In just his second bout as a welterweight Danny is now a title holder. Sitting ringside watching with great interest was Amir Khan, the former unified junior welterweight titleholder, whom Garcia knocked out in the four rounds in 2012. Amir Khan is now WBC #1 contender and mandatory challenger for Garcia.
Guerrero a true warrior gave it his all but in the end Danny simply was “Too Swift”. In the post press conference both Ruben and Robert Guerrero stated they felt they won the fight. “Not one person out there thought Danny won, but his team,” Guerrero said. “I pressured him. I nailed him, busted his body up. I out-jabbed him. The crowd thought I won the fight. I thought I won the fight, and I definitely want a rematch.” “I know we won it,” Ruben Guerrero said. ” He kept running and holding, running and holding. How are you going to win a fight when you run and hold every time? We wanted to win every round, and I think we won every round. I want a rematch. That wasn’t fair. I want a rematch as soon as possible.” Danny and Angel on the other hand both felt it was a clear victory for Danny. “I knew Robert was going to be at 100 percent. It was a world title fight,” Angel Garcia said. “Anytime it is a world title fight, no one is going to slouch. When you come to fight a former champion or champion, it’s going to be a battle. These are elite fighters, and there is always going to be a great fight.” Guerrero, whose purse was $1.2 million, dropped to 2-3 in his past five fights, and many believe he should be 1-4 after he received a generous split decision against Aron Martinez in June. What he will do next is up in the air, but he is unlikely to get the rematch he said he wants. Garcia on the other hand stated “I want to fight the best. Whatever my team wants,” Garcia said. “I want to fight the best. Danny Garcia never ducked anybody. I showed I can stand toe-to-toe with a great veteran and win the fight.”
On the undercard former U.S. Olympic heavyweight Dominic Breazeale, 17-0, 15 KO’s survived a knockdown to remain unbeaten when Amir Mansour, 22-2-1,16 KO’s quit before the sixth with a possible broken jaw. Welterweight prospect Sammy Vasquez Jr. 21-0, 15 KO’s also stayed unbeaten when Aaron Martinez, 20-5-1, 4 KO’s quit with an injury before the seventh.
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