{"id":334685,"date":"2026-05-14T19:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=334685"},"modified":"2026-05-14T19:00:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:30:32","slug":"robert-garcia-accuses-richardson-hitchins-of-ducking-oscar-duarte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/robert-garcia-accuses-richardson-hitchins-of-ducking-oscar-duarte\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Garcia Accuses Richardson Hitchins Of Ducking Oscar Duarte"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cEveryone knows, and I do know for a fact because I continue to learn more stuff and more stuff,\u201d Garcia said to YSM Sports Media. \u201cHe asked trainers, \u2018How would you train a fighter to beat Duarte?\u2019 He was scared to fight Duarte. He was fearful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garcia then went further, saying any fighter asking outside trainers for advice about an opponent is showing fear.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I discover any of my fighters are asking different trainers, \u2018How do you beat someone like Duarte?\u2019 my fighter is a [expletive] pussy and he\u2019s afraid,\u201d Garcia said.<\/p>\n

Robert says Hitchins even contacted one in every of Duarte\u2019s former opponents to ask how hard he hits.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe goes and finds his opponent\u2019s last opponent, \u2018How hard does Duarte hit?\u2019 You then\u2019re afraid, man,\u201d Garcia said.<\/p>\n

The comments add to a rough week for Hitchins after O\u2019Shaquie Foster also questioned his toughness publicly. Foster recently claimed Hitchins has a popularity in boxing circles for being scared and lacking heart, pointing to the canceled Duarte fight as evidence.<\/p>\n

Hitchins\u2019 official explanation for withdrawing from the February 21 fight was illness after the weigh-in. Reports on the time said he began vomiting shortly after making weight, forcing the cancellation just hours before the event in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Robert openly challenged that explanation. He argued Hitchins looked healthy during weigh-ins and said a fighter supposedly vomiting all night wouldn’t have rehydrated the total 10 kilos allowed by the next-day check weight.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe pulled out because he was afraid of Duarte,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cBottom line is he asked trainers, and he asked Duarte\u2019s former opponents how hard Duarte is. When a fighter does that, which means you\u2019re afraid.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cEveryone knows, and I do know for a fact because I continue to learn more stuff and more stuff,\u201d Garcia said to YSM Sports Media. \u201cHe asked trainers, \u2018How would you train a fighter to beat Duarte?\u2019 He was scared to fight Duarte. He was fearful.\u201d Garcia then went further, saying any fighter asking outside […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":334686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[1819,11657,10502,4302,10465,10033,7061,8712],"class_list":["post-334685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-accuses","tag-duarte","tag-ducking","tag-garcia","tag-hitchins","tag-oscar","tag-richardson","tag-robert"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334688,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334685\/revisions\/334688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}