Via Ken Hisner: Saturday LIGHT HOURS PPV 8 PM EST Main Event promoted by Tom Brown (TGB Promotions) and Oscar De La Hoya (Golden Boy Promotions) is a match between former IBF and WBA Super Featherweight, WBA Light Welterweight and current WBA World Light Champion Gervonta.” Tank” Davis and former WBC Interim Lightweight Champion Ryan ‘King Ry’ Garcia gained a lot of public attention with the two boxers back and forth.
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In the experience of this writer for many years, the more opponents rush into each other, the more intense the battle sometimes becomes.
In Philadelphia in May 2015 for the vacant Pennsylvania heavyweight title, Amir “Hard Core” Mansour, 21-1, and Joey “Tank” Dawejko, 14-3-2, competed for weeks before weighing- IN. It ended up being a very average fight over ten innings. Southpaw Mansour won 98-92, 97-93 and 96-94 at Philly’s 2300 Arena in ten tedious innings.
I still remember one of the dullest heavyweight fights I’ve ever watched when IBF and WBA champion Anthony “AJ” Joshua, 20-0, beat WBO champion Joseph Parker, 24-0, in Cardiff , Wales, in March 2018. Joshua twice won 119-109 and 118-110.
Davis, 28-0 with 26 knockdowns, of Baltimore, Maryland, is at 135th, slightly more favorites, than Garcia, 23-0 with 19 knocks, in LA, California, in position 135th ½, at 1st place T-Mobile Arena, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The officials are referee Thomas Taylor and judges Tim Cheatham, Dave Moretti and Steve Weisfeld.
Both fighters are talking about challenging WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO lightweight champion Devin “The Dream” Haney, 29-0, with 15 knockouts. On May 20, Haney defended against former WBO Feather, WBO Super Feather and WBO, WBA and WBC lightweight champion Vasyl “Loma” Lomachenko, 17-2 with 11 knockout knockouts, since having lost the title in 2020, won three games in a row.
Haney last defended his title in October after winning the title and in a rematch defeating George Kambosos, Jr., then 20-0 in the first game.
In the amateur weight category, Garcia fought Haney four times, winning twice each. He also beat top welterweight Victor Ortiz, Jr., and undefeated ultralightweight Brandun Lee, 28-0, with 23 kills. He’s 215-15 in the amateur league.
Davis, on the other hand, is 205-15 in the amateurs. Three times he beat Joet Gonzalez, now 26-3, Lamont Roach, 23-1-1, and Manny Robles lll, 18-1, in the amateurs.
‘I gave my life for this war. I’ll break his jaw,” Garcia said. “I will drown Ryan Garcia!” Loud talk from both fighters, so let’s hope there’s no “HYPE HYPE MORE FIGHT!”
