By Jim Calfa: Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya says he’ll be able to make a struggle between Ryan Garcia and WBA light-weight champion Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis as soon as he takes care of his opponent Emmanuel Tagoe on April ninth.
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Evidently, Ryan (21-0, 18 KOs) might want to defeat Tagoe (32-1, 15 KO) and look good for De La Hoya to think about letting him transfer ahead to a struggle towards the unbeaten Tank Davis.
Ryan hasn’t fought in 15 months, so he might want to look distinctive towards the 33-year-old Tagoe for De La Hoya to offer him the inexperienced gentle to tackle Tank.
To have an opportunity of combating the unbeaten former three-division world champion Tank Davis, Ryan might want to obliterate Tagoe as a result of he can’t wrestle towards this degree of opposition.
Ryan didn’t look nice in his final struggle towards Luke Campbell in January 2021. Campbell dropped Ryan laborious within the second spherical and might need performed extra harm if he had extra energy.
“I simply noticed that he’s calm and at peace. I believe that’s an important factor that I noticed from him,” mentioned Oscar De La Hoya to Fight Hub TV about Ryan Garcia.
“Simply seeing him at peace and pleased was the whole lot,” mentioned De La Hoya.
“I all the time thought that Mayweather was going an ideal job with him and Al Haymon,” mentioned Oscar in reacting to Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis saying he can be finishing his final struggle in his contract with Mayweather Promotions on Could twenty eighth towards Rolando ‘Rolly’ Romero.
“Yeah, if they’re critical about making this struggle. Al Haymon or whoever is in cost [of Tank Davis] give me a name from promoter to promoter, we are able to make this struggle occur,” mentioned De La Hoya a couple of struggle between Ryan Garcia and Tank Davis.
“We wish it, however first issues first. April ninth, however look, Ryan needs the large fights. I believe if the whole lot goes properly on April ninth, I’ll be watching very fastidiously, clearly as an professional myself.
“There’s no purpose why we shouldn’t make that struggle occur very quickly,” mentioned De La Hoya on the Ryan Garcia vs. Tank Davis struggle.
Whoever winds up as Tank’s new promoter, they’ll doubtless be greater than prepared to match him towards Ryan Garcia. It might be an issue, although, if Tank indicators with Prime Rank, as that may imply he can be combating on ESPN.
With Ryan competing on DAZN, it will complicate issues in the identical means we see lately with the failed negotiations for a struggle between Jaime Munguia and Jermall Charlo.
