Via Brian Webber: Boxing great Sugar Ray Leonard took some time to give young lightweight star Ryan Garcia advice this week, showing him how to hit a lightning-quick left hook.
1976 Olympic gold medalist and former Sugar Ray five-category world champion showed off his left hook against the undefeated Ryan (23-0, 19 KOs), which improved the main weapon in his arsenal. he.
Instead of Leonard helping Ryan with his right hand, which was essentially useless to him, he focused on showing him the left hook he used throughout his great career.
Some have suggested that Ryan’s only weapon is his left hook, as he has failed to develop both his straight left and right hand. Kingry will need to develop his right arm if he has any chance of defeat Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis in their epic battle on April 15 on the pay-per-view channel Showtime.
Ryan’s right hand almost looks like a Relic body partssimilar to a useless arm of a Tyrannosaurussince he doesn’t use it in his battles, this makes him a one-way fighter, similar to past guys like Donovan ‘Razor’ Ruddock and Jeff ‘Left hook’ Lacy.
Will the battle between Tank Davis and Ryan Garcia happen?
“Obviously I would pick Tank to beat him, but it’s still a bit risky,” said Teddy Atlas at The strugglediscuss Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis’ decision to make a risky correction against Hector Luis Garcia on January 7 in Washington, D.C.
“I don’t know why he is [Tank] take it. It makes me wonder that the war [Gervonta vs. Ryan Garcia] won’t happen because why would you adjust if it’s going to happen?
“Although people make adjustments. Fighters want to stay sharp. They don’t know when it will happen. They are talking about the proposed fight that will not take place until April.
“It makes you wonder if they are [Team Gervonta Davis] join this war [with Hector Luis Garcia]. Do they fully believe that the great battle will take place?
“Now, I also heard that Ryan will also be making adjustments in January. It’s always risky business and again, it makes you wonder if their fight is really going to happen, but we hope it does.
Ray Leonard, one of the greatest
“Sugar Ray Leonard fits all times. Not everyone is so. You’ve got the greatest warriors from the 20’s, 30’s and 40’s because they fought everyone and they turned into great fighters. Do these kids sometimes hit people [from this era]and they don’t come pretty great.
“So for me, Leonard can fight in any era. He’s good mentally, technically, physically, instinctively and handles pressure. Sugar Ray Leonard is one of the best boxers I’ve ever seen, and he’s taken on the moniker of the original ‘Sugar’ man, Sugar Ray Robinson.
“He had almost 200 games with about 120 kills. Sugar Ray Robinson fought with everyone. He could punch, he could box, and he was a pioneer in combining punches, using footwork and taking it to the next level in that era.
“He has one of the best chins. Sugar Ray Robinson, original name is ‘Sugar’, yes, Leonard took his name, but guess what? He earned it. He won a gold medal in Montreal [Olympics in 1976]. He beat Cuba [Andres Aldama] that everyone thought would destroy him.
“Cubans at the time had some of the greatest amateurs in the world, some would argue. I thought the American team that year in 1976 was the greatest Olympic team of all time. We had five champions.
“We have the Spinks brothers; we had Leo Randolph. Everyone forgot about him. I think he’s a bantamweight athlete and won a gold medal. He won a world title. We have Howard Davis, one of the great boxers.
“He fought for a world title and never won one. He fought twice. In one of them, he may have made a bad decision. So yeah, Leonard took the original moniker Sugar Ray, but he earned it and he did a great job with it,” Atlas said.
