Angel Garcia is an asshole. But in the wacky world of boxing, all types of characters are welcome (especially assholes). Angel has found his niche not just as the trainer for his son Danny Garcia, but as the mouthpiece that gets into opponent’s heads and is goldmine of quotes for boxing writers. Just this year, Angel has derided Amir Khan as a deficient fighter because of his Pakistani roots, and blasted Erik Morales as a steroid cheat. Today at the press conference to announce the February 9 fight against Zab Judah, he painted Zab as a washed up fighter who’s failed every time he’s faced elite competition. He cited the Kostya Tszyu fight has the perfect example of Judah not being able to succeed on the highest scale. As expected, there was only so much Judah could take and he confronted Angel, prompting them to be separated by a crew that included Bernard Hopkins, Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaeffer and the ubiquitous Sam Watson Twins.
To be honest, there was some truth to Garcia’s words this time around. But he went a little too far; Zab was never the best of the best, but he was far from a bum and the Cory Spinks rematch KO in St. Louis counts as a big victory (and one more significant than any Danny’s achieved thus far in his career). Danny is already getting flack, and rightly so, for picking this fight and acting like Lucas Matthysse is some lowly fighter not worth his time. Painting Zab as some bum isn’t helping to change the perception that he’s taken his second consecutive safe fight.
With all that said, Angel’s line telling Judah to take off his Janet Jackson Rhythm Nation hat was pure gold.
Danny Garcia and Zab Judah face off on February 9 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Showtime will be airing the card.
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lol that was funny schitt, angel garcia needs his own reality tv show, i like that he has always got his sons back though, he does it all for him… he reminds me of dame dash, his job seems to be to piss people off lol zab is a shot fighter, but hes a big name, especially to the casual fan, plus the fight being in brooklyn at the new barclays center and him being a brooklynite its a no brainer money wise to pick judah as the fighter to face garcia…