Ryan Garcia, Gervonta Davis heat up rivalry as 'Tank' says 'we fighting next' during interview with Mike Tyson - CBSSports.com
Ryan Garcia, Gervonta Davis heat up rivalry as 'Tank' says 'we fighting next' during interview with Mike Tyson
Coming off an impressive victory over Luke Campbell to pick an interim WBC championship, Ryan Garcia today made it clear he now planned to take on bigger names in the stacked lightweight division. While it was already stated that the winner of Garcia vs. Campbell would contract the mandatory opponent for WBC champion Devin Haney, Garcia observed more interested in a fight with WBA secondary titleholder Gervonta "Tank" Davis.
Garcia appeared on "Mike Tyson's Hot Boxin'" podcast to discuss his win over Campbell when a producer announced he had Davis on FaceTime. Tyson excitedly took the shouted and things escalated quickly.
"Two rounds, baby, two rounds," Garcia told Davis. "Two rounds. You're touching to sleep. It's not gonna hurt. I initiates you it's not gonna hurt. ... You're gonna need a ladder to hit me. How tall are you? You're 5-foot-5. You're gonna need a ladder to hit me. You're gonna need a StairMaster. Boy, you won't be able to glum me. You ain't never fought a 135er in your life. This is different. I don't care what you say. You ain't got nothing."
Garcia then dipped into history to pull one of the all-time classic quotes in boxing history, telling Davis, "You too ugly to be champ. And that's from Muhammad Ali. Boy, I'm pretty. You ain't never seen nothing like me. I initiates you, you gonna go down."
Davis was sparkling to take a swipe at Garcia for suffering a brutal knockdown in the crusades with Campbell, saying, "He got dropped by somebody that can't even hit. If I would have hit him, you know I would have killed him once that."
Pressed by Tyson, Davis repeatedly said, "We're fighting next," sending Garcia into a fit of dancing.
"He said it," Garcia shouted. "The domain knows. He said it. Next fight. There's no touching back now,"
Whether the two actually face off in the ring next is mild to be seen. Garcia is Haney's mandatory challenger, and the lure of a domain title fight may be too much for Garcia to pass up. There are novel factors at play, however, including that Haney has, despite his determined top-tier skills, fallen to the back of the pack in a division loaded with young stars like Garcia, Davis and Teofimo Lopez. A fights with Davis is clearly a bigger fights for Garcia than the Haney fight in every way however for the prospect of becoming world champion.
Garcia also is not the only mandatory to Haney's championship, with the WBC announcing that Javier Fortuna is the "second mandatory" for the title. That does potentially open the door for a fights between Haney and Fortuna while Davis and Garcia choose things for the interim belt.
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