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Ryan Garcia’s father, Henry Garcia, has backed his son’s two round prediction of Gervonta Davis and says he is confident he’ll overcome his compatriot. Garcia called out Tank immediately after stopping Luke Campbell on January 2 and made a bold prediction to knock out the Floyd Mayweather protege in two rounds, as talk mounts over a potential showdown this year.
Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum, who promotes IBF, IBO, WBC Franchise, WBO lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez, sees very little worth in doing a match with Devin Haney, who holds the WBC's 'regular' lightweight title. Lopez shook up the sport last year, when he pulled off an impressive twelve round unanimous decision win over Vasiliy Lomachenko to unify the lightweight titles at the MGM Grand's Conference Center in Las Vegas.
IBF, WBC Franchise, WBO, WBA lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez is hoping to land very big fights in 2021. Lopez had a breakout year in 2020 - after winning a twelve round unanimous decision over one of the top pound-for-pound fighters in the sport, Vasiliy Lomachenko.
By Dan Rafael - If Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis has his way his next fight will be against fellow lightweight star Ryan Garcia. Davis and Garcia have both been outspoken about wanting to fight each other, especially since their most recent fights. Davis scored a sensational knockout of Leo Santa Cruz on Oct. 31 to retain his WBA secondary lightweight title and win the sanctioning body’s junio...
By Tris Dixon - A huge amount of talk in boxing as 2021 opens surrounds the red-hot lightweight division. Boxing has its own Fab Five, with Vasiliy Lomachenko, Teofimo Lopez, Ryan Garcia, Gervonta Davis and Devin Haney and there seems to be little between any of them. But trainer Shane McGuigan has seen two of the brilliant crop while up close and personal hav...
By Cliff Rold - Ray Leonard was 23. Wilfred Benitez was 21. Erik Morales was 22. Marco Antonio Barrera was 26. Roman Gonzalez was 25. Juan Francisco Estrada was 22. Their fights marked not just memorable clashes between future Hall of Famers. They were also critical first clashes in memorable round robins across multiple weight classes that fed an entire era in t...
The quartet of Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Thomas Hearns and Marvin Hagler were known as the “Four Kings” in the 1980s because they all stepped into the ring and faced one another throughout the decade in memorable fights.
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Don't look now, but boxing is on a roll in 2021. Gradually relegated from the mainstream by the rise of MMA and a prolonged dearth of transcendent stars, the sweet science finished 2020 with a momentum unseen in years. Several of the sport’s top names were in action over the pandemic-ravaged calendar’s final few months – including pay-per-view...
Gary Russell Jr. wants Gervonta Davis to pick on someone his own size. The WBC featherweight titleholder has not been shy about calling Davis a weight bully over the past year. In the latest instance of his antagonization, Russell took exception to Davis’ last fight, a 130-pound, pay-per-view contest against Leo Santa Cruz,
Luke Campbell has no problem projecting where Ryan Garcia may go in his career, now that the dust has settled. “I think he beats Haney,” Campbell said, referring to WBC lightweight titleholder Devin Haney during an interview with IFL TV a couple of days after getting stopped by Garcia in their lightweight bout last Saturday night at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas.