Oscar De La Hoya suggests Canelo Alvarez vs. Ryan Garcia 'down the road' at a catchweight to settle their beef
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The 'Golden Boy' has quite the idea for a massive fight down the line between the pair of stars
Oscar De La Hoya, the Hall of Fame fighter and CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, has an interesting idea to one day settle the growing beef between pound-for-pound king Canelo Alvarez and unbeaten rising star Ryan Garcia: a catchweight meeting inside the ring.
Garcia (21-0, 18 KOs) will snap a 15-month layoff on April 9 when he faces fellow lightweight Emmanuel Tagoe (32-1, 15 KOs) at the Alamodome in San Antonio. The 23-year-old phenom, who has a massive social media following that includes 8.7 million Instagram followers, recently recovered from a wrist injury and canceled a return last summer for mental-health reasons, which he later admitted included thoughts of suicide.
Nearly all of the headlines surrounding Garcia's comeback, however, have centered upon his suddenly tenuous relationship with Alvarez after Garcia announced last month he was leaving trainer Eddy Reynoso and Team Canelo in favor of Joe Goossen. The soap opera only escalated in recent days when Alvarez criticized Garcia's work ethic, leading to a lengthy Twitter response from the young fighter who, until recently, looked up to Alvarez as a mentor.
