By Keith Idec

A potential fight against Mikey Garcia piqued Danny Garcia’s interest.

Ultimately, though, that fight never really was offered to the former welterweight and junior welterweight champion. Danny Garcia explained how he found out a few months ago about possibly boxing Mikey Garcia during the most recent episode of “The PBC Podcast,” available on premierboxingchampions.com.

“I don’t know,” Danny Garcia said. “When it went in the media, I didn’t hear nothing. When it went in the media, to be honest with you, I don’t know how that happened. I never talked to anybody about fighting him. And then, you know, I called my team and I asked them, ‘Is this true?’ And they said, ‘We offered him the fight.’ And after that, I never heard nothing ever again.”

According to Danny Garcia, a welterweight fight against him was presented to Mikey Garcia after the four-division champion suffered his first professional defeat – a lopsided points loss to IBF welterweight champ Errol Spence Jr. The bigger, stronger Spence (25-0, 21 KOs) dominated Garcia in their 12-round, 147-pound title fight, Garcia’s debut at that weight, on March 16 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

Mikey Garcia (39-1, 35 KOs) hasn’t decided whether his next fight will be contested at the junior welterweight limit (140 pounds) or at welterweight. The Oxnard, California, native also is weighing whether to accept a lucrative offer from promoter to Eddie Hearn.

Signing with Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing would mean Garcia’s fights would be streamed by DAZN. Garcia’s past six fights have been contested on Al Haymon’s PBC cards, five of which were broadcast by Showtime.

Regardless, Danny Garcia doesn’t think Mikey Garcia is interested in fighting him next.

“Maybe that’s what it’s looking like,” Danny Garcia said. “Or maybe he wants to fight somebody, then fight me, you know, because he’s coming off a loss. I don’t know. I really don’t know, to be honest. I just heard about that one time and it was dead. I said, ‘Yeah, let’s do it.’ And then that was it. I never heard nothing about it ever again.”

Danny Garcia also said during “The PBC Podcast” that, assuming Mikey Garcia isn’t an option, he wants, in order, rematches with Shawn Porter and Keith Thurman, and fights against Manny Pacquiao and Spence. Porter (30-2-1, 17 KOs), who defeated Danny Garcia to win the WBC welterweight title last September 8, and Spence will meet in a welterweight title unification fight September 28 at Staples Center in Los Angeles (FOX Sports Pay-Per-View).

Danny Garcia (35-2, 21 KOs) knocked out Adrian Granados (20-7-2, 14 KOs, 1 NC) in the seventh round of his last fight, April 20 in Carson, California.

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.