Ryan Garcia: record, next fight and profile →
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...
DALLAS—With five knockouts in as many fights with his current team, it’s safe to say that Ryan Garcia will never look back. The unbeaten lightweight saw his career soar to new heights, even amidst his scariest moment to date in rising from the deck to knock out England’s Luke Campbell in the 7th round of their Jan. 2nd interim title fight. Garcia breezed through his previous four opponents under the tutelage of Eddy Reynoso.
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...
WBC interim-lightweight champion Ryan Garcia (21-0, 18 KOs), 22-years-old, made a big statement earlier this month - when he got off the floor in the second round to score a seventh round knockout of 2012 Olympic gold medal winner Luke Campbell.
DALLAS—There isn’t much left for Devin Haney to do other than put his title up for grabs and accept the best challenge to come his way. The unbeaten 22-year old remains on the hunt for a planned April ring return, despite having two assigned mandatory contenders. Plans call for the WBC to order a title consolidation fight between Haney (25-0, 15KOs)—the sanctioning body’s World lightweight champion—and recently crowned interim titlist Ryan Garcia (21-0, 18KOs).
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...
WBC interim-lightweight champion Ryan Garcia (21-0, 18 KOs) is riding high after his career-defining win earlier this month, when he knocked out 2012 Olympic gold medal winner Luke Campbell in Texas. Garcia was dropped hard in the second round - and proved his worth as a real fighter when he recovered, took over the fight, and knocked Campbell out in the seventh round with a vicious body shot.
Ryan Garcia wasn’t exactly surprised “Sugar Rush” didn’t perform up to his capabilities January 2. The emerging Garcia knows his younger brother barely trained for his four-round fight against Rene Marquez on the undercard of his showdown with Luke Campbell. Sean Garcia boxed accordingly during a four-round lightweight fight that the Victorville, California, native won by majority decision at American Airlines Center in Dallas.
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...