Dad's no angel, but it's OK with son Danny Garcia

• Both Danny Garcia and Erik Morales are trained by their fathers
• Morales lost their first fight by unanimous decision after coming on overweight
• Garcia is the unified light welterweight champ and is still undefeated

There have been times in news conferences for Danny Garcia's recent fights when his outspoken father and trainer, Angel, became more of a story than his 140-pound champion son.

Angel Garcia says what's on his mind, and if it's controversial or offensive, as it often is, well, too bad.

At Thursday's final news conference for Danny Garcia's unified light welterweight title fight and rematch Saturday night against Mexican great Erik Morales, Angel was no angel again, unleashing a tirade in Spanish against Morales' trainer-father, Jose.

He said Morales didn't really care about his son because he allowed him to take the fight at age 36 against Danny Garcia. Angel Garcia also disparaged Morales' mother in Spanish.

Said Erik Morales: "It's huge insecurity from his father. He wants to be the star, the center of focus. I assure you that they're very scared. I know what I have to do this Saturday and I'm ready."

Before Danny's last fight against Amir Khan, Angel said that Khan's God — Khan is a Pakistani Muslim from England — is a punishing God, while his is a loving God. He also enraged the Khan camp when he said he never saw a Pakistani who could fight.

Perhaps he learned such an attitude in the two years he spent in prison at the end of the '90s on a drug charge when Danny was a boy.

Danny, a 7-1 underdog, went on to stun Khan with a fourth-round TKO.

"It's not about me. It's about Danny," Angel says. "Sure I have an outgoing personality. What you see at press conferences is me saying how I feel. It's me showing my heart. I'm not trying to take the spotlight because it really is about (Danny) as a fighter."

Do the things his dad says hurt or embarrass Danny?

"Nah, actually it makes me laugh," Danny, 24, told USA TODAY Sports. "Because that's just the way he is. He doesn't try to act like nobody else. He is who he is. That's who he is all day."

And that's who he will be Saturday, when Garcia (24-0, 15 KOs) will help christen the $1billion Barclays Center and bring championship boxing back to Brooklyn for the first time in 81 years (Showtime, 8 p.m. ET).

The fight is a rematch of their March bout in which Garcia won a unanimous decision, the fight that really launched his fame. It is the headliner of an almost unprecedented four world title fights on the card that is bringing championship boxing back to Brooklyn for the first time since 1931.

Danny's boxing career is a family affair. He describes his relationship with his dad as "best friends." Angel trains his son, and Danny's brother, Erik, is his manager. His mother, Marissa, is the chef. Danny still works out at the same gym his dad first brought him to after he got out of prison.

When Danny, who'll earn $1million for this fight, bought a house last year in Philadelphia, his mom and dad and sisters moved in. Danny's only stipulation? He got the master bedroom.

"Oh no, that's his," Angel, who survived stage-four throat cancer several years ago, told USA TODAY Sports.

"I could have a room in the garage," Angel said with a chuckle. "It's his house and I respect him for all that. He works hard, he deserves it.

"Boxing is a brutal sport. You get hit in your face and that hurts. People don't understand that all these athletes that get hit in their faces for a living, half the time they don't even make the kind of money they should be making."

"So I'm happy he's got the right people on his side, and he's looking good and his life is changing slowly. All he's got to do is stay focused."

Which is why the Garcias moved in with their son in the first place. "He's still young, and we don't want no distractions in his life," Angel says. "He has a girlfriend, that's his personal life. I don't get into that, but he don't need no children right now.

"He needs to focus on his career and boxing right now and the only way a young guy like himself . . . he needs people like me. I love him, his mom loves him and the only way for Danny to have success right now is we live with him."

We don't bother him, he don't bother us, and for now it's the best thing for his career."

Asked if he ever thought of replacing his dad as his trainer as he rose in the ranks, Danny says he "never ever thought about that.

"A lot of the trainers out there they have big names and politics behind them, but I know my dad knows more than what they know and my dad knows me more than anyone else."

Danny Garcia says he respects Morales but has no doubt bout the outcome.

"I think it's going to be a tough fight," he says. "He's a Mexican warrior, he's been in these types of fights before, but I'm bringing a lot of hunger. I'm stronger, I'm smarter and I'm on top of my game."