The undercard of the Canelo vs. Kovalev card hosted a press conference Thursday featuring Ryan “Kingry” Garcia (18-0, 15 KOs), “Ruthless” Romero Duno (21-1, 16 KOs), Seniesa “Super Bad” Estrada (17-0, 7 KOs), Marlen Esparza (7-0, 1 KO), Blair “The Flair” Cobbs (12-0-1, 8 KOs), and Carlos Ortiz (11-4, 11 KOs).
Ryan Garcia: A lot of things have been said about me not taking the fight in September but look, I’m taking it now…I just got a lot of haters and they want to see me lose, even if I knock him out and I put on a beautiful boxing performance, they’re not going to respect me but I’m okay with that. I’m okay with just being confident in myself. I have a lot of respect for Romero Duno. Sometimes it confuses me when he wears t-shirts that ‘Ryan Garcia is running,’ so I’m a little confused, but I respect him.”
Romero Duno: “I wanted to give the fans what they want. They say they want me to fight King Ryan. I was ready [in September], I was always ready. I was born ready.”
Seniesa Estrada: “She has a bad ego, bad attitude, she’s disrespectful, she’s just a nasty person with a nasty attitude. Marlen Esparza is delusional. I’m going to be the bully Saturday night, that’s for sure.”
Marlen Esparza: “She’s a compulsive liar. She tries to play victim all the time. You’re not the victim here, and then you want to shove me? Which are you, are you the victim or the bully? You need to pick a side.”
Blair Cobbs: “I’m going out there to impress and show the world – millions around the world – what Blair ‘The Flair’ is all about baby. Woo!”
Carlos Ortiz: “I’m very grateful to be participating on such a card with great boxers.”
They didn’t even try to make an entertaining undercard. Say what you want about Don King, but the man often gave you more than one title fight per PPV. Given that there are even more titles floating around these days, it’s stunning that Oscar can’t give us anything better than this.
It’s not PPV. It’s streamed through DAZN. For 9.99 or 19.99 depending on when you picked up the service. You get more fights. Katie Taylor is also fighting. You get both WBSS finals, possibly the GGG Fight among others. Also for boxing purest you get to see the entire card and check out some prospects at the start of their careers.
You are correct. Also adding a cat fight won’t make the card better either.
Maybe not, but for 20$ you get this awesome fight. WBSS fight next week that looks good. Plus get to see a few other good boxers this month like Haney, Callum Smith, Billy Joe Saunders. Could check out GGG fight if you haven’t and they have Bellator stuff on the service as well as some other stuff that I don’t bother with. Only real stinker is you have to roll another 20$ out to see AJ vs Ruiz next month.
You look like a undercover DAZN agent Anthony. But I think is a good deal
Lol I thought the same.
I agree it does look that way. Lol. But I’m really just trying to educate.problem is there are too many streaming services anyways. To get most boxing you have to have Showtime, DAZN, and ESPN+. That’s like 35-40$ a month.
Garcia Is still a bitch! But at least he is stepping up.
Garbage… The undercard is trash
God these two young ladies, while accomplished amateurs, sound like IDIOTS! Especially Marlen Esparza….