Phil D. Jay
WBN Editor
WBN Editor
Loss ends long-term professional relationship
Former WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz has parted
ways with trainer Danny Garcia after a working partnership that spanned five
years, following his shock loss to Josesito Lopez.
Ortiz, 25, suffered a double jaw-break in the contest that
ended in the ninth round and Garcia explained in an interview yesterday that he
and Ortiz no longer have the trust needed to continue the relationship.
“I went to Victor’s house, me and my oldest son,” Garcia told
Examiner.com.
“We went to talk to
him because I feel like he wasn’t doing the things that I told him to do,
especially in the last fight against Josesito. He didn’t do the things that I
told him to do. He did a little bit of the plan but some things he didn’t do
right.”
“It looks like he doesn’t have confidence in me, he doesn’t
trust me. I told him that ‘I don’t think
I’m going to have confidence either; I don’t think I’m going to trust you,
because you didn’t listen to me’. It’s better if I go my own way and he can do
his own way.”
Garcia is the brother of famous Oxnard trainer Robert
Garcia, although the two don’t speak as a result of Ortiz leaving Robert’s camp
for Danny’s in 2007 and there have been no indications yet as to whether Ortiz
may now return.