Comments Thread For: Ryan Garcia: I Wanted To KO Tagoe - But He Was Very Crafty, Made it Difficult

[GhostofDempsey]

I just don’t see where the hype comes from with Garcia. He is flat footed, leaves himself wide open for counters with his sloppy haymakers, and isn’t good at cutting off the ring. The top level LWs will make easy work of him.

[Madison Boxing]

a terrible fight and i blame garcia more than the other guy... these ridiculously one sided match ups need to stop, i dont give a **** about garcias long lay off he would have learnt more in a hard sparring session than he did fighting that bum

[Boxingfanatic75]

Ryan had no plan, didn't use the jab and fights with his chin in the air. He looked strong and had stamina but the other guy didn't want to fight. The few times Tagoe threw the left hook he landed it.

Unless Ryan gets someone out with his speed and power in the first few rounds he won't be able to compete with the top 135 pounders. He is very repetitive, is not as fast as Khan and throws mostly 2 punches at a time.

He is young enough to improve but the hype on him right now is B.S.

I keep hearing this chin nonsense and it’s coming from those that saw what they chose to see and not paying close attention. At range he had his hands high and chin tucked all night long. He fought with hands lazy and chin up looking for spots when he was out of range and there was no risk whatsoever. when he stepped in to engage his chin was tucked tight and hands high. I seriously don’t know what fight folks were watching but it’s like people wish to place sins of the past into fights in the present hoping he still fought that way. This was in no way the case during this fight.

[QballLobo]

Garcia made the fight harder than it needed to be. Tagoe was just leaning into him when they got close to smother his punches.
A more skilled fighter would simply set him up like he’s going in then back up and tee off when Tagoe was off balance.
Garcia seemed content to walk him down and get awkward combinations which got him an easy win but could have been a KO win easily.
Also Garcia has a bit of Amir Khan in him where he gets off balance during exchanges. Could be a problem against higher level competition. He could get caught.

[turnedup]

Garcia has a lot to polish, teach him patience in setting up his shots and that right hand can actually be a real meal ticket. He’s far too impatient and kept telegraphing the punch.

[GBP4LIFE]

Tagoe was absolutely pathetic.. he never came to win.. pathetic holding

[Tails]

My takeaway.

It was a terrible fight to watch. A good bulk of that has to do with Tagoe not caring to win but just wanting to reach the final bell.

Garcia does need to work on some things but nothing major from what I can tell. Polish up his footwork and pressure game and he should be fairly well rounded. He pitched a near shut out (expected) but it gives him a good experience to see that he needs to work on being able to get to these guys when they choose to move around so much.

Much better to learn what he needs to work on against Tagoe then someone more dangerous.

[Sctrojan]

Impossible to look impressive against a fighter whos sole purpose in the fight is to participate in a trackmeet and not get ktfo,don't care how good you're at cutting off the ring. Ryan had an undersized fighter in front of him and feel that was partially why he didn't attempt to set anything up and just stalked him the whole fight trying to get that highlight KO. All in all he looked big,stong,fast and showed a great gas tank.

With the elite of the division he"ll obviously be more cautious and throw/set up a better jab like he was with Campbell. Haney,Kambo,Tank,Loma will more than likely engage more than Tagoe was willing to last night which will afford Ryan more opportunities to setup his counter left hook. Going to be interesting how that speed and power affects thier gameplan and vice versa. Always and still maintain Ryan is the best fighter at 135 sans maybe Loma. Just need to get them in the ring with one another. Another interesting take last night was JoJo actually talking like he really didn't want that work with Ryan,pretty disappointing if that fight doesn't happen next.

[TreyShaw]

My takeaway.

It was a terrible fight to watch. A good bulk of that has to do with Tagoe not caring to win but just wanting to reach the final bell.

Garcia does need to work on some things but nothing major from what I can tell. Polish up his footwork and pressure game and he should be fairly well rounded. He pitched a near shut out (expected) but it gives him a good experience to see that he needs to work on being able to get to these guys when they choose to move around so much.

Much better to learn what he needs to work on against Tagoe then someone more dangerous.

Exactly it was a perfect learning experience for Ryan and he still dominated every rd.

[Corelone]

Tagoe was full of bull before the fight, Ghanaian peppers my eye. Just the same, he brought out the worst in Ryan. All that talk about mastering the jab, new trainer, private gym, for what? He can train at the YMCA to fight like this.