For many followers of boxing in Ghana and Africa, current world champion Miguel Angel Garcia Cortez (Mikey Garcia) is just afraid of fighting a Bukom bred boxer who fights for a whole community of hardened surviving warriors whose dream rides on Richard Oblittey Commey.
It is not by accident that the champ has resorted to frustrating the whole negotiations and he needs to be because Richard Commey is going to be his biggest test and career defining opponent.
Richard Commey tweeted earlier asking Garcia to be decisive.
It’s pretty weird to see how connoisseurs of the game revere Mikey Garcia, but trust me, he is yet to fight a Bukom bred boxer.
Let’s go down memory lane, for a fighter who fought Robert Easter Junior, knocked him down in a fight that many maintain he won but was never granted the verdict, it sure is strange that Mikey Garcia is rather seen as favourite going into the bout but granted that is true , afterall he is the champ.
Everything shows how scared Mikey Garcia is of Richard Commey. His feet dragging tells it all aside the fact that he knew he had to face Commey after the victory over Robert Easter Junior.
He still decided to punch above his weight by consistently calling out Errol Spence instead of Richard Commey, ‘the high risk and career defining’ opponent.
Richard Commey has improved over 30 percent after his fight against Robert Easter Junior with his new technical directorate and a nurtured ambition of winning the world title.
Look, Richard Commey may not be the trash talking type of boxer nor commands the flamboyance but damn you underrate him at your own peril. He is smart, unassuming and calculated. He is a power puncher and a clever counter puncher.
In Ghana, we have watched many of Garcia’s fights and shadder with disbelief why in heaven some writers in the states thinks Mikey Garcia can beat the Jamestown native who carries our whole community with him in this bout.
In order to understand Richard Commey’s calling you need to visit Bukom in Ghana. Even the dead ancestors of Bukom are waiting for Commey to present the Garcia’s titles to the soil.
For every punch that Richard Commey throws against Garcia there will be thousands of children singing ‘yiile’ in the street, the pubs, the ghettos and what have you.
Mickey Garcia is simply scared of Ghana’s Richard Oblitey Commey and he needs to be, because if he dares grant Commey a fight many people will know that he, the much touted boxer is not only ordinary but just not upto the level of the young hungry African.
This fight will show the world that Mikey Garcia is not as infallible as people perceived.
Simply put, sign the deal or vacate the title, a message from the gods and ancestors of Bukom the ‘Mecca’ of boxing to Mikey Garcia.
The battle lines are drawn.
Don’t get me wrong Mikey Garcia is good but he is yet to fight anybody in the caliber of Richard Commey.