Via Craig Page: Former two-division world champion Danny Garcia and WBA average middleweight champion Erislandy Lara are in discussion.
With 39-year-old Lara (29-3-3, 17 KOs) potentially plenty of time to kill off IBF/WBA Super World champion Gennadiy Golovkin who was ordered to defend against IBF-mandatory Esquiva Falcao, that’s it. unleashing Cuban talent against Danny ‘Swift’ Garcia next.
ESPN’s Salvador Rodriguez is reporting on a potential fight between 160-pound WBA champion Lara and 34-year-old Garcia.
If the bout starts, Garcia (37-3, 21 KOs) will be ahead from challenger 154 Lara for his WBA middleweight belt. This comes after Danny moved up to 154th last July in his league debut against Jose Benavidez Jr.
“Lara and Danny García were discussed a few days ago,“Salvador Rodriguez said on Twitter.
Garcia won the decisive match by a 12-round majority but did not look particularly impressive when he beat former welterweight contender Benavidez Jr, brother of two-time former WBC super-middleweight champion David Benavidez .
To be fair to Garcia, he’s had a year and a half off since his last game against Errol Spence Jr in December 2020, so you can’t blame him for looking less spectacular in front of human victims live by Terence Crawford Benavidez Jr.
If Danny Garcia beat aging Lara to his 160-lb WBA title, that would put him in a position to face next year’s WBA Super champion Golovkin if he doesn’t retire or is beaten. in the meantime.
Golovkin vs. Garcia will be a terrifying match, attracting much of the attention of the boxing world. But for that fight to happen, Danny will need to defeat Lara, and Golovkin will need to keep winning until the match is over.
Garcia is a former two cocker world champion with a wealth of talent, strength and experience. Unfortunately, his career has faltered since losing to Spence in 2020, but he still has a lot of talent and strength.
A victory for Garcia over Lara is entirely possible despite the difference in size between the two. Lara has spent a lot of years fighting at 154, so he won’t have a huge size advantage over Garcia the way the likes of Jermall Charlo, Chris Eubank Jr, or Golovkin would.
