Danny Garcia doesn’t want to hear excuses.
If he fights and beats Errol Spence Jr. next, he doesn’t want Spence or anyone else to say Spence wasn’t at full strength following his car accident in October. If Garcia fights Manny Pacquiao, he doesn’t want to hear how old Pacquiao is.
If Garcia wins, he wants full credit.
“if you ain’t 100 percent, don’t get in the ring,” Garcia said on The Ak & Barak Show. “If you ain’t ready, don’t get in the ring. You know? That’s just that simple. You know, I know they say Manny’s older now, but he’s coming off a big win. So, if he’s old, don’t get in the ring. If Spence ain’t better, don’t get in the ring cuz I don’t wanna hear no excuses. I never made no excuses.”
Garcia is expected to fight Spence, although no formal announcement has been made. The Philadelphian was set to face Spence on pay-per-view in January but the matchup was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic.
He’s also thought to be in contention to face the 41-year-old Pacquiao, who is coming off a split decision victory over Keith Thurman in July.
Garcia (36-2, 21 KOs) likes his chances against the unbeaten Spence (26-0, 21 KO), especially after watching Spence’s victories over Mikey Garcia (UD) and Shawn Porter (SD) last year.
“You know, I seen things in the Mikey Garcia fight, even though he won that fight,” Danny Garcia said. “You know, he won by a big score, but I saw things in that fight that, you know, I’m bigger than Mikey, I’m stronger than Mikey and Mikey did some good things in that fight. He just was beat by the bigger, better man. You know what I mean?
“And then the [Shawn] Porter fight, you know, I saw he was getting hit a lot. You know, when I fought Porter, it wasn’t even a hard fight to me like that. You know what I mean? It was just he just threw more and that’s why he won, basically.
“But I seen him get hit a lot in that fight and I seen a lot of mistakes, where I feel like, you know, I could take this guy. I’m 100 percent confident I could take him.”
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