He’s always endlessly searching, yearning for hard lessons through a painstaking, trial-by-fire attitude Garcia’s clung to since he was 7 years old. He couldn’t think too hard about it, or he’d go blank, and stare off until the day ended. He stopped, and shook his head, left to right, like a metronome. About what it would feel like to lose to Davis. He bent his thumbs over each other, one after another. “I-I’ve still got some more searching to do.” And you can’t do that if everyone thinks you can do it. “So many people have me as the underdog and this is my opportunity to inspire people. “That’s why I love this fight so much,” Garcia went on to say, casting a quixotic stare. They thought he bit off more than he could chew. “There’s no way, he was a loud-mouth, pretty boy from Louisville. “They thought Muhammad Ali was gonna die,” Garcia said. He told me, emphatically, that he was “gonna shock the world.” He saw the scrap as his sole moment, the only thing he could currently conquer to prove he belonged with the big boys of boxing. undefeated pride fight in the heart of Sin City. Ryan Garcia, a man-made boxing king of the next generation, wasn’t just going to fight Gervonta “Tank” Davis, the self-proclaimed savage from west Baltimore, in an undefeated vs. It was hard to believe some pretty boy from Victorville had much more of a chance.īut he was assured of his victory. Men walked into the ring only to end the night sullen and swollen, broken and confused at how - or when - they nosedived toward the canvas. Didn’t he know? No one had ever survived one of these maulings. There was no backing out of it, despite how many people thought he was delusional for taking such a risky fight. The paperwork had long been signed and the fight announced. This was what it meant to be a man, right? To be the Mexican warrior he so badly wanted to embody. He wanted to walk directly through the fire, with his chin held high toward victory. His promoters tried to talk some sense into him, but the pug insisted on blazing this path. I was going to get back up, but I just couldn’t get up.”ĭavis ended the night with his career record moving to 29-0, including 27 knockouts, while Garcia suffered the first defeat of his career and is now 23-1.Well, I suppose there was never any stopping him. He caught me with a good body shot, snuck under me and caught me good. He caught me with a good shot and I just couldn’t recover and that’s it. “I don’t want to make any excuses in here. “He just caught me with a good shot and I couldn’t recover,” Garcia said, according to PBC. In front of a sold-out crowd of 20,842 in Las Vegas, the fight largely lived up to its hype even if it became a more one-sided affair as the night wore on with Davis winning five out of six rounds on the scorecard before the decisive seventh.Īfter a cagey opening round, the fight exploded in the second, with Garcia unleashing a flurry of punches before Davis countered with a perfectly timed left hook that knocked down his opponent.Īnd again in the sixth round Garcia seemed to make inroads, landing two right-handed blows to Davis’ face, before the decisive moment in the seventh round. ![]() The pair – who both began the night as unbeaten fighters with impressive knockout résumés – have verbally sparred for years and finally met on a non-title catchweight fight at 136 pounds after they finally were able to agree on a weight after long negotiations. 'Tank' Davis defeated Ryan Garcia by knockout in the seventh round. I thought he was going to get up, but I like to play mind games, so when he was looking at me, I was looking at him trying to tell him, ‘Get up!’ He just shook his head no.” “I didn’t think that body shot would end it, but I saw his facial expression and that’s what made me take it to him,” Davis said afterwards, according to Sky Sports. But this time, Garcia could not get back to his feet and it provided a conclusive ending to one of the most hotly anticipated match-ups in recent years. It was the second time that Davis had forced Garcia to the mat following a left hook in the second round. But Davis’ power then made itself known a moment later and Garcia fell to one knee, his nose bloodied, and shook his head as the referee counted down. ![]() ![]() Garcia continued for a moment as if it was like all the other punches he had soaked up that night. It didn’t seem like the knockout blow when it landed. Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis landed a vicious body shot to knock out Ryan Garcia in the seventh round of their non-title catchweight fight and settle one of boxing’s fiercest rivalries.
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