Ryan Garcia: record, next fight and profile →
Ryan Garcia says that his 15-month hiatus from boxing tending to mental health issues was a serious setback from further building on his budding career.
Ryan Garcia and Canelo Alvarez formed a strong relationship throughout the years training alongside each other under the auspices of touted coach Eddy Reynoso. From 2018 to 2021, Garcia was 5-0 with 5 KOs as Alvarez’s stablemate.
By Thomas Gerbasi - It used to be that when the latest hotshot lost his first fight, he returned with perhaps a little less fanfare, but wasn’t normally seen as someone who was damaged goods. Remember, it’s one loss. In a fight. Against a fellow professional, and one of the best in the world, no less. But in 2023, the rules have changed, and as Ryan Garcia returns this weekend for his first bout since he saw his 23-0 record turn to 23-1 in April, courtesy of Gervonta Davis, there are questions whether we’ve seen the 25-year-old’s best days.
The bad blood between Ryan Garcia and Golden Boy apparently still persists. In a recent interview with Brian Custer on The Last Stand Podcast, the native of Victorville, Calif., took issue with some claims made by Bernard Hopkins, one of the key brass at Golden Boy Promotions, ahead of Garcia’s upcoming 140-pound fight with Oscar Duarte on Dec. 2 at Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. The fight marks Garcia’s debut as a junior welterweight.
Junior welterweight titlist Teofimo Lopez says he was offended by the paltry purse offered to him for a proposed fight with Ryan Garcia. Lopez, the former unified lightweight champion from Brooklyn, New York, told reporters Saturday night in Las Vegas
The bout between Ryan Garcia and Gervonta Davis was a box-office success by all accounts. Their April showdown generated approximately 1.2 million pay-per-view buys and $22.8 million in ticket revenue. Although Garcia lost the fight due to a seventh-round knockout, he believes he’s a significant reason why the fight was a blockbuster, and why Davis will entertain the idea of giving him a rematch down the line.
Ryan Garcia is not a fan of newly crowned WBC lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson’s lackluster unanimous decision win and performance Thursday night against Edwin De Los Santos.
Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya made headlines when he recently said that he was looking at Devin Haney, Teofimo Lopez, and Adrien Broner as potential opponents for Ryan Garcia in early 2024.
Golden Boy President Eric Gomez says he and his team have formed a workable relationship with Ryan Garcia amid their ongoing litigation. Earlier this summer, Golden Boy filed a lawsuit against Victorville, California’s Garcia to enforce their contract with the
It never mattered how many times Gervonta Davis warned Ryan Garcia, the widely popular super lightweight contender simply wouldn’t listen. For years on end, the 25-year-old told all who would listen that he had what it took to not only beat Davis but to make it look incredibly easy. This past April, he was given the opportunity to prove that he wasn’t all talk.