Trainer Robert Garcia sounds more interested in the payday that got away than the middleweight division Vergil Ortiz Jr. is considering. Why keep talking down Josh Kelly instead of talking up a fight with Yoenli Hernandez?
“Kelly’s going to take the fight because Kelly could lose to anybody else for a couple hundred thousand. He’ll get maybe a million against Boots,” Robert Garcia told Fight Hub TV in an interview published today.
Those figures are Garcia’s estimates, but the argument reveals his thinking. Garcia dismisses Kelly as an IBF champion cashing out and treats Jaron Ennis pursuing unification as evidence of avoiding Ortiz. Neit
