Gervonta Davis: record, next fight and profile →
LOS ANGELES – Soon after Ryan Garcia rocked and dropped Javier Fortuna three times and scored a sixth-round knockout, fans at the Crypto.com Arena started chanting “we want Tank! we want Tank! we want Tank!” in unison.
LOS ANGELES – Like virtually every boxing fan, Ryan Garcia has wanted to see Terence Crawford fight Errol Spence Jr. for quite some time. Despite his fractured relationship with Canelo Alvarez, Garcia also realizes that the Mexican superstar’s third showdown with Gennadiy Golovkin is still one of boxing’s most marketable matchups. Garcia firmly believes, though, that once his fight against Gervonta Davis materializes it’ll eclipse Alvarez-Golovkin III and Crawford-Spence as the biggest fight in the sport.
LOS ANGELES – Ryan Garcia is confident, despite the obvious obstacles, that he’ll finally fight Gervonta Davis next. The undefeated Garcia believes their handlers will work through the various issues that could prevent competing promoters and platforms from coming together to make one of the highest-profile fights in boxing for later this year. If, however, those complications cause them to go in different directions again, Garcia would want to face another popular boxer who has left the 135-pound division.
Undefeated contender Ryan Garcia (23-0, 19 KOs) made a statement by delivering a spectacular performance against former two-time world champion Javier “El Abejon” Fortuna (37-4-1, 26 KOs) in front of a packed house at Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena.
Details of delicate dealings among competing promoters and television networks or streaming services often are kept private. That was the case early in 2021, when representatives for Gervonta Davis and Ryan Garcia quietly made progress toward matching those two popular, undefeated lightweight knockout artists. Garcia feels he has unfairly been blamed for their fight falling apart last year, supposedly because Garcia and his team chased a more lucrative showdown with Manny Pacquiao that never materialized.
LOS ANGELES – Oscar De La Hoya hasn’t underestimated Javier Fortuna. “The Golden Boy” believes the strong southpaw will present legitimate danger for Ryan Garcia on Saturday night at Crypto.com Arena. If the heavily favored Garcia wins, De La Hoya anticipates a difficult fight of his own when he tries to make the high-profile fight Garcia wants most – a showdown with Gervonta Davis.
There is no shortage of talented boxers across the 130, 135, and 140-pound divisions. A cavalcade of contests could be mixed and matched between the likes of Shakur Stevenson, Devin Haney, Gervonta Davis, Ryan Garcia, Vasiliy Lomachenko, Teofimo Lopez, and Josh Taylor, just to name a select few.
By Thomas Gerbasi - “I am a great fighter,” said Ryan Garcia during a recent media call. There’s your clickbait. In a lot of ways, the 23-year-old has gotten to this point in his career from all those things we decry as the end of modern civilization: Instagram, TikTok, clickbait headlines, and more talk about big fights than actual big fights.
LOS ANGELES – Ryan Garcia is a realist. The upstart boxer boasts nearly nine million followers on Instagram, but he knows his star appeal can break past social media boundaries with the right dance partner.