Ryan Garcia: record, next fight and profile →
In the main event at The Honda Center in Anaheim, California, fans witnessed rising lightweight sensation Ryan Garcia (20-0,17 KOs) earn yet another first-round knockout of Francisco Fonseca (25-3-2, 19 KOs) to remain undefeated.
Ryan Garcia Video Interview - Anaheim, California - Hot lightweight prospect Ryan Garcia (20-0, 17 KOs) knocked Francisco Fonseca (25-3-2, 19 KOs) out cold with a single shot in the first round. The stage is now set for a potential showdown with former world champion Jorge Linares for a date in July at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Linares had appeared in the undercard and destroyed Carlos Morales in four rounds.
Anaheim, California - Former world champion Jorge Linares (47-5, 29 KOs) showed everyone that there is still something left in the tank when he knocked out Carlos Morales (19-5-4, 8 KOs) in the fourth round. Morales had never been stopped.
Bernard Hopkins Video Interview - Anaheim, California - Hot lightweight prospect Ryan Garcia (20-0, 17 KOs) knocked Francisco Fonseca (25-3-2, 19 KOs) out cold with a single shot in the first round.
ANAHEIM - Ryan Garcia only needed less than one round to knock Francisco Fonseca out. Not only did Garcia score a knockout, it was a devastating knockout in a type of performance that generates buzz and has casual boxing fans and teenage girls following the sport much more closely.
Ryan Garcia will make a guaranteed purse of $250,000 to fight Francisco Fonseca on Friday at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. BoxingScene.com obtained documents filed with the California State Athletic Commission, which shows that Fonseca will earn $30,000 in a fight that will stream on DAZN.
Bernard Hopkins will be officially inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame later this year. Hopkins, a partner in Golden Boy Promotions, believes the stable’s touted 21-year-old prospect in Ryan Garcia is headed on the same path to greatness. “Ryan Garcia is at the door of history,” Hopkings told BoxingScene.com in an interview. “We see the progress faster than any young fighter who started at his age. It’s amazing.”
Ryan Garcia is just 21-years-old. The Golden Boy-promoted boxer has had to grow up in front of the eyes of millions with a budding boxing career, a side gig as a model and social media status to boot. It hasn't always been so smooth. He’s had nasty spats with boss Oscar De La Hoya and the mother of his child on social media.
Ryan Garcia will face an opponent Friday night that Gervonta Davis has knocked out. The fight Garcia really wants, though, is a showdown with Davis himself. Baltimore’s Davis (23-0, 22 KOs) appears headed for a fight with four-division champion Leo Santa Cruz (37-1-1, 19 KOs) in the spring, but Garcia and his promoter, Oscar De La Hoya, hope Davis wins and then decides to defend his WBA world lightweight title against Garcia later this year.
Ryan Garcia, Francisco Fonseca Weights Photos Gallery - Any massacre to take place on St. Valentine's Day will be saved for the action in the ring. Ryan Garcia and Francisco Fonseca made weight along with all other participants due to appear on the four-fight main portion of a DAZN livestream, airing Friday evening from the Honda Center in Anaheim, California.