The heads of Golden Boy are optimistic about making fights with rival entities so long as the fighters from both sides truly want to do so, no matter the public reluctance of a certain prominent figure.

Golden Boy CEO Oscar De La Hoya and president Eric Gomez responded to a query on The 3 Knockdown Rule podcast about whether or not they believed that a fight between their charge, Ryan Garcia, could be consummated with Gervonta Davis, who is backed by rival outfit Premier Boxing Champions. The subject came up in light of recent comments made by Floyd Mayweather, who promotes Davis under his Mayweather Promotions brand, about keeping fights “in-house” during a press conference on June 26 shortly after Davis, a career lightweight moved up to 140 pounds to stop Mario Barrios in a pay-per-view event at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta.

“We keep everything in-house, Mayweather Promotions, PBC, we’re all one family,” Mayweather said of Davis’ future fights. “We’re not going to go nowhere and make another company great. So we got plenty of fighters at 140, 135, 130, and we’ll continue to fight the fighters we got to fight.”

Neither Gomez nor De La Hoya were dissuaded by that rhetoric, as they pointed to the Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder fights as an example of two sides coming together. (Fury is promoted by ESPN/Top Rank, while Wilder is with PBC/Fox; they fight for a third time on July 24 in Las Vegas). They also pointed out that if the fighters were the ones pushing to face each other, the fight would happen.

“There’s ways, there’s ways,” said Gomez. “How did Deontay Wilder fight against Fury? There are ways of doing it. If the fighters really want the fight, it’s up to the promoters to make it happen. We’re able to make it happen. We’ve worked with everybody. Just look at our track record. We can work with PBC, we can work with Mayweather Promotions. It’s no big deal. If that’s what the fighters really want, there’s a way to get it done.”

“We’re never going to stop a fighter from making history, from making money, from building their legacy,” added De La Hoya. “We’re just here to accommodate and put everything together.”

De La Hoya noted that while Garcia (21-0, 18 KOs) is still taking his time recovering from a mental health issue that forced him to pull out of a summer fight against Javier Fortuna, the social media star is still adamant about fighting Davis (25-0, 24 KOs) in the near future. (Fortuna is fighting Golden Boy-backed Joseph Diaz, instead, on July 9 at the Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles).

“He wants it now,” said De La Hoya. “Garcia wants it now. If that’s what he wants, we’ll make it happen, two, three, four fights from now.”

Gomez was a bit more circumspect.

“Obviously, we have to keep in mind what he went through,” said Gomez. “It’s a matter of seeing where he’s at, but, yeah, like Oscar said, we pride ourselves on making those fight happen.”