Comments Thread For: Isaac Cruz didn?t want distraction of Ryan Garcia fight until he finishes February 1 bout

[James Hunt]

BS!!
Master Haymon has other plans with him.

[lred00]

I can't wait to see the fight between Ryan and Rolly. Someone is going to get TKO'd!

[Roj]

I don’t buy this. Didn’t Cruz put out a statement after the Garcia fight was announced saying how much he was looking to the fight and how the whole world has been waiting for him to beat up Garcia? Now the sudden 180? Someone got in his ear and told him - whether for legal, PBC-promotional or financial reasons - to pull out of the Garcia fight. Cruz still has some real marketability for PBC, unlike Romero.

[BlackRobb]

I don’t buy this. Didn’t Cruz put out a statement after the Garcia fight was announced saying how much he was looking to the fight and how the whole world has been waiting for him to beat up Garcia? Now the sudden 180? Someone got in his ear and told him - whether for legal, PBC-promotional or financial reasons - to pull out of the Garcia fight. Cruz still has some real marketability for PBC, unlike Romero.

Rolly's mouth alone will always sell tickets.

[El_Mero]

Pretty weak excuse tbh. He's fighting a cab driver from what I and most can tell. He's favored what, 8-1?
He just didn't want the fight, plain and simple.

[LarryMerchant'sBottle]

Pretty weak excuse tbh. He's fighting a cab driver from what I and most can tell. He's favored what, 8-1?
He just didn't want the fight, plain and simple.

I see your point, but Munguia was a bigger favorite and look what happened. I'm gonna take a guess that Pitbull wanted the fight and agreed to it before negotiating the numbers. Turki has made it clear that he likes to negotiate directly with the fighters.

This would mean that a physical meeting would need to take place which would take Pitbull away from his training camp. If this is the case, I can see why Pitbull would want to wait till after his Feb 1st fight to sit down with Turki. Similar thing happened with Ginger leading into his fight with Berlanga. Turki doesn't like having to wait for an answer...

[BirdSong]

very strange stuff what sort of golden opportunity are we talking about???? how many $$$$ is he passing up on i wonder

[El_Mero]

I see your point, but Munguia was a bigger favorite and look what happened. I'm gonna take a guess that Pitbull wanted the fight and agreed to it before negotiating the numbers. Turki has made it clear that he likes to negotiate directly with the fighters.

This would mean that a physical meeting would need to take place which would take Pitbull away from his training camp. If this is the case, I can see why Pitbull would want to wait till after his Feb 1st fight to sit down with Turki. Similar thing happened with Ginger leading into his fight with Berlanga. Turki doesn't like having to wait for an answer...

-Munguia been trash. Not sure why he was gassed up the way he was any way.

-which is a great thing imo. Promoters are wack n sneaky af. Hoping one day boxing promoters die tf out, and Turki makes a boxing league like ufc so there's no bs, no ducking and the best fighting the best

-In this day and age, nothing technically has to be face to face.

-Turki doesn't just have regular money. He definitely has more money than all these wack promoters do COMBINED. I wouldn't want to wait either if I'm putting up ALL the money.....lil puppy's loss. Im sure he'll regret it now with the rumors that amazon is cuttin pbc off this spring.

[MulaKO]

I see your point, but Munguia was a bigger favorite and look what happened. I'm gonna take a guess that Pitbull wanted the fight and agreed to it before negotiating the numbers. Turki has made it clear that he likes to negotiate directly with the fighters.

This would mean that a physical meeting would need to take place which would take Pitbull away from his training camp. If this is the case, I can see why Pitbull would want to wait till after his Feb 1st fight to sit down with Turki. Similar thing happened with Ginger leading into his fight with Berlanga. Turki doesn't like having to wait for an answer...

When was the last time you hit an underdog of that proportion

[daggum]

i remember when tank fanboys were hyping this guy up as some kind of top fighter lol. hes not even on the luis ortiz level when wilder fanboys were hyping him as some kind of destroyer and that never materialized. cruz being good hasnt seemed to materialize either losing to valenzuela and barely beating cabrera. oh but he looked great knocking over bum romero or 50 year old gamboa. those guys are brought in to make fighters look good, how do people not know this yet? wilders entire resume? i mean come on