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LAS VEGAS – Ryan Garcia regrets that he wasn’t disciplined enough Saturday night to give himself a better chance to beat Gervonta Davis. His haste cost him versus Davis, who capitalized on Garcia’s mistakes and ultimately knocked him out with a well-placed
LAS VEGAS – Gervonta Davis took a few seconds to think before he answered the question during his post-fight press conference late Saturday night. Ultimately, Davis determined that Ryan Garcia is the best opponent he has faced in 29 professional fights. Davis knocked
Although Gervonta Davis has faced a plethora of world-class fighters, at least on paper, it appeared as though Ryan Garcia would be his toughest test. The blinding hand speed, eye-catching knockouts, and braggadocious attitude forced countless prognosticators to take the 24-year-old seriously. Amongst a long list of names that were under the assumption that Garcia was more than capable of upsetting the applecart, was former Davis foe, Rolando “Rolly” Romero.
Another show has come and gone and the machine moves on to the next. So it was and so it will be…but this time we got a pretty good show for the trouble. Boxing has been on a roll in 2023 and its first mega-event held up its end of the bargain. We got all the bells and whistles in the Gervonta Davis-Ryan Garcia showdown. The preview shows were well produced; Sports Center gave us a split screen of the combatants; the fight ended conclusively; and, even in the aftermath, allegations of banned promoters and death threats against Oscar De La Hoya were left to stoke the embers.
LAS VEGAS – The tension between Gervonta Davis and Floyd Mayweather has subsided. Mayweather, whose company promoted Davis for most of the 28-year-old star’s career, was a very visible supporter of Davis again before, during and after the biggest fight of Davis’ career Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena. The undefeated
Erdenebat Tsendbaatar has quickly learned that even negative publicity is still publicity. Accusations have swirled that the two-time Olympian for Mongolia was the mole inside the training camp of Ryan Garcia, who suffered a seventh-round knockout loss to Gervonta Davis in their April 22 super fight in Las Vegas. The talk
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Now that was a weekend, eh? Though only the latter’s main pay-per-view event moved the needle on a mainstream basis, the fight cards staged in Wales and Las Vegas provided a full Saturday’s worth of compelling violence. The Tuesday morning crew got together in the aftermath to pore through the notebook scribbles and compile them into a mildly coherent collection of early-week conclusions, etc.
Ryan Garcia apparently thinks there was a turncoat in his midst as he was preparing to fight Gevonta Davis. The fighters engaged each other Saturday night in front of a packed crowd at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Baltimore’s Davis ended up stopping Garcia with a body shot in the seventh round.
Golden Boy Promotions President Oscar De La Hoya took to social media to explained why he, and Golden Boy partner Bernard Hopkins, were absent from Saturday's post-fight press conference for the lightweight showdown between Gervonta Davis vs. Ryan Garcia.
WBA "regular" lightweight champion Gervonta Davis indicates that he's still very close to former five division world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. For most of his career, Davis was promoted by Mayweather's company, Mayweather Promotions.