WBA “regular” lightweight champion Gervonta “Tank” Davis (28-0, 26 KOs) retained his title by stopping previously unbeaten WBA super featherweight champion Héctor Luis García (16-1, 10 KOs) between rounds eight and nine on Saturday night in front of a crowd of 19,731 at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. Competitive fight early on. Davis began to connect midway. Garcia had his moments also. Good exchanges in round seven. Tank staggered Garcia in round eight and Garcia didn’t come out for round nine. Official time was :13 of round nine. At the time of the stoppage, Tank led 79-73 on two cards and 78-74 on the third.
Garcia later stated that a Davis punch short-circuited the eyesight in his right eye. He will return to the 130lb division where he remains champion. Tank moves on to a mega fight with Ryan “Kingry” Garcia.
What a quitter, copped a few decent punches and said no mas. Hope the other Garcia isnt a bitch too
If you watched the interview at the end Garcia was rapidly blinking the entire time. I wouldn’t be surprised if he has a concussion or worse. He stood in the pocket and duked it out. Give him some credit. Better than running the whole night.
Let’s be real for a minute. All the racial stuff isn’t necessary. It’s about business and big money. Firstly it’s obvious tank was caught off guard by Garcia who moved up in weight class to fight him. Earlier in the fight between rounds Davis kept looking around asking his corner if somebody was in the stands. At the point the bs distraction in the crowd happened it looked like wallo was in the crowd with his red Washington Nationals hat. After the fight Gillie his partner was backstage smiling with tank. The distraction happened at a point when Garcia had taken hits but wasn’t backing down. This was obviously a tactical distraction to disturb Garcia and slow him down. Besides that the only time Garcia was hurt was truly from the blow to the back of the head which clearly gave him a concussion and caused the stoppage in-between rounds. Any other fight that’s at least a warning if not points taken away from tank. Otherwise who knows what happens and I tell you what if Davis has to move down to fight Garcia at his normal weight class this is going to be lopsided in Garcia favor because he’ll be even faster and tank not as strong. No conspiracy here this is just what happened and was noticable and it obviously has to do with business money and corruption much more than true athletic performance. Tank won but he didn’t beat him. The announcers wouldn’t even mention the blow to the back of the head or anything negative about tank or positive about Garcia and they tried their best not to even show a replay of the blow to the back of the head that caused the stoppage rather showing multiple other sequences as the reason prior to showing the last one and still didn’t speak on it at all. If this didn’t show you corruption or scripting then nothing will. Similar to Anderson Silva taking a dive against Paul. These things are as clear as day. I’m from Baltimore and enjoyed Davis as champ but this is just what happened tonight.
Horrible take!
Garcia gave it what he got. He didn’t back down and fought courageously.
The distraction in the stands had no impact in what happened inside the ring.
Very good observation in regards to the rapid blinking during the post fight interview. I hope they took him straight to hospital. Tough guy and no quitter.
Don’t know how you can see it any other way. 20 + years ago the best fought the best and the fighters never quit on the stool. Boxers used to wear their heart on their sleeve. Now any thug with a criminal record, a face tattoo and a 0 is ppv worthy regardless of the opposition. RIP boxing and farewell to never seeing another ward vs gatti on FREE tv ( Showbox, HBO, TNF, FNF, Fox on Sundays ). Welcome PPV, DAZN and Jake Paul.
What are you talking about? Fighters quit on their stools 20 years ago; fighters have quit on their stools throughout the history of boxing. And it had nothing to do with their quality as a fighter: 20 years ago, it was Julio Cesar Chavez. Before that, it was Sonny Liston. Before that, it was Willie Pep. Before that, it was Joe Gans…etc. etc. etc. Nostalgia is all well and good, but let’s be realistic here.
I don’t disagree. Things in boxing today are not the same as then for sure.
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Dude took a shot to the back of the head. His own fault, he turned away at the exact wrong time. Took the loss on his stool to extend his career and protect his life. Something tells me you wouldn’t know anything about what stepping in the ring feels like.
Good fight good test for Tank, the Dominican Garcia had some good moments, once Tank hurt and staggered Garcia, Garcia folded and said he can’t see and quit. Let’s all hope the Tank/Kingry fight DOES happen on April 15th!
Real tough cookie, that Garcia. Hopefully the other one has a little heart.
This fight proves my point, Davis is nothing special!!!! To top it off, he is ghetto trash along with his fans who started a brawl in the stands that caused the fight to be paused. My dad has a shirt that explains it perfectly, it simply reads They Ruin Everything. Absolute truth!!! Scum of the earth. Culture of trash!
Lol “They Ruin Everything” I assume you mean black people. Typical racist clown logic.
Racist?? More like realist. It’s a fact. Take a look at the crowd that was involved in the brawl. Hoods up, hats to the side, super gaudy and adolescent way of dressing. It’s always the same story. Over and over and over. Don’t blame me for what I see with my own eyes.
You mean how most Mexicans are in cartels or how most mass shooters, child molesters, and pedophiles are white?
Don’t blame me for what I see over and over again.
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Well at least we don’t kill people for steal 10 dollars or stealing stores in the daylight
I wear all of that and I am a retired veteran and MBA graduate. Well Bezerker I guess everyone MUST dress talk, eat, drink, listen to music and everything you and YOUR culture does…..then it will be acceptable right??? Ridiculous, just like your comment. Go back to school, get your moral education bro. And this is from a person who “ruins everything “, the people you HATE.
If you were a realist you would know there are many more good hardworking law abiding black people than the few clowns they put on these TV shows or you see on the news.
Don’t bother. The guy is just a racist who wouldn’t say anything to a black person’s face but will make comments like this online.
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Your finger stuck ?
Historically, Caucasians people destroyed many societies with disease and brutal oppression ( apartheid, USA slavery, Australia ( responsible for the rapid decrease of Aboriginal people of Australia, etc.). Buffalo mass shooter, Idaho 4 getting stabbed to death by the criminology student, and many mass shootings the perpetrator is Caucasian. There are destructive people of all ethnic backgrounds. Broaden your mind guy!
And what has this to do with this boxing forum?
Thank you….boxing…
Let’s get it on black or white…color don’t matter.
Only red matters (blood)
Just sayn boxing
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Well, I give the clown a platform
no thats incorrect do your research its the English that did most of that and saying or using the word caucasian is just distraction for racism
Not necessarily racist, but ghetto. Could be any race or color.
For someone who calls themself Meek, this guy seems to get himself in all kinds of shit.
This forum is about boxing. Please keep it that way. Keep your hand me down racism where it belongs. Oh, and tell that scumbag who taught you this to look in the mirror first before calling a group of people who have endured your cruelty for well over 400 years and still keep rising.
Lol and you see that people are liking his comments. Most other racist always have something racist to say about black people. But we as black people don’t care as long as we can smile up in the face of anybody with lighter skin.
Many other people have suffered racism and oppression for hundreds of years, heck even what is England today were ruled cruely by the Romans, then Germans, throw in some viking and French periods there too. Then Ireland, probably for the longest and the worst.
In saying that, it is all wrong, why is this stuff mentioned on here, and people only seem to know recent USA history, there were cruel native Americans before too.
Most people before 1900 were terribly poor and suffered from malnutrition, deaths in laboursome jobs, and disease. The USA today, and for the last 50 years would be one of the easiest and safest place to live. It’s definitely not perfect, but let’s all just get along and stamp out racism when we see it.
Unfortunately there are some that prefer to play the old and very worn race-card canard with reckless abandon hoping to silence those with any opposing view and thus change the topic of this boxing forum.
@Kit Carson, You have a great and meaningful point but I have observed that, you have not said anything to the very person who initiated this whole racism statements. I am talking about Berserker.
You are very quick to remind people like us to stick with the objective of this platform, while you seem to ignore the real perpetrators.
The perpetrator has been banned. Hope that helps.
What a racist you and your pops are. Some family values hopefully you don’t teach your kids how to trash talk people of other nationality. You’re the only scum I see what trash.
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Anyone who walks around with a shirt that says, “They Ruin Everything,” is that somebody that ruin’s everything.
Garcia was gamed for this fight but in Tank Davis fashion he picked his spot and closed the show. I hope the Tank Davis vs Ryan Garcia match is made in April. Boxing took a huge loss at the end of 2022. Hopefully, 2023 will start out with a bang.
Okay, that’s over. Now what? Tank vs Ryan Garcia isn’t happening, mark my words. That’s just talk so gullible fans will accept crap because they think it’s leading up to that matchup. So now Tank and Kingry will continue on parallel paths fighting guys no one cares to see them fight. That’s modern boxing for you, unfortunately.
Don’t blame them blame the fans. People continue to support them and they make millions fighting no-namers so why wouldn’t they continue? Low-risk high reward. The fans are to blame not the boxers/promoters. When fans stop ordering PPVs or attending lives shows the governing bodies, boxers and promoters will get their sxxx together and make the fights happen. My faith in 2020’s humanity is VERY low.
well Tank is a 3 weight division world champion and Superhype Garcia hasnt done anything but fought Home depot workers and been rocked a few times its in GBP best interest to keep Superhype safe and talk the talk but dont dare walk the walk
Tank did what he had to do and put this cat to bed.
Bring on Kingry!!!
Ryan pull out of his January fight. Do you really think he had any intentions of fighting Tank? Ryan calls out boxers for clout and doesn’t box them. Ryan is a troll.
PPV? hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
There is a thing called streaming. PPVs are no longer relevant.
Announce team did an admirable job sanitizing Davis with their man love. Blow by blow for sure.
Kid continues to deliver.
Credit to the kid for busting up a great game plan by Team Garcia.
So Berserker, do your eyes allow you to see those numerous drunken brawls at those soccer matches in Europe, or how about those pics of 20,000 African-Americans being lynched in the U.S in a 50 year period, or how about those baseball brawls, or those hockey fights where players are allowed to bludgeon each other and everyone stands by and watches? That’s just “boys being boys”, I reckon. Most likely your Cognitive Dissonace only allows you to see what you want, but you can’t help it; it’s your ilk. BTW; how’s that sun treating you these days? As far as the fight is concerned; Davis gathered the data and decided when it was time to pick up the pace, and go for the kill. I will say this though; I’ve never seen a fight stopped midround because of a disturbance in the stands. Why would Tank turn around in 3 months and fight Garcia? Ain’t happening.
Don’t forget the white guys and their hockey fights being accepted but black NBA players fighting is not acceptable. As you said, cognitive dissonance is what America is made of. Just like Ryan Garcia not fighting in January. If Tank would have done that he would have been heavily criticized and called “scared.” There are folks who still criticize Tank even though he showed up to fight and Ryan is sitting at home.
Site needs a moderator. Sun real stoopid shite being posted here. Tank is a lowlife but a knock out artist. 5’5 – sign up for the daily mail if you want to post dumb raciist shite
A moderator to kick you out perhaps?
Credit to Garcia for giving it all he had, but he was outgunned. Tank really knows how to get leverage on his shots, like all the great punchers in the history of the sport. No shame in Garcia’s corner and Garcia deciding they had enough. No sense in jeopardizing his health further, since he was hurt badly.
Garcia did a reasonable job he was never going to win even before he stepped into the ring just as everyone had predicted, it was only ever a tuneup fight for Tank
Good fight. Both dogged it out. Let’s see what happens should the next fight settle in April. I was off calling the fights ending. I called 11th round surprise KO by Davis, but I’ll take TKO 9th round. Tank adjusted well to the sit and counter style the Garcia brought in tonight.
Personally, I think 135 is the limit for Tank for the next few fights. I do t see this shots holding much weight at 140.
He stopped champion Mario Bario at 140. He punches fine at 140. 140 may be his limit. I can’t see him doing this at 147 but you never know.
Let’s be real for a minute. All the racial stuff isn’t necessary. It’s about business and big money. Firstly it’s obvious tank was caught off guard by Garcia who moved up in weight class to fight him. Earlier in the fight between rounds Davis kept looking around asking his corner if somebody was in the stands. At the point the bs distraction in the crowd happened it looked like wallo was in the crowd with his red Washington Nationals hat. After the fight Gillie his partner was backstage smiling with tank. The distraction happened at a point when Garcia had taken hits but wasn’t backing down. This was obviously a tactical distraction to disturb Garcia and slow him down. Besides that the only time Garcia was hurt was truly from the blow to the back of the head which clearly gave him a concussion and caused the stoppage in-between rounds. Any other fight that’s at least a warning if not points taken away from tank. Otherwise who knows what happens and I tell you what if Davis has to move down to fight Garcia at his normal weight class this is going to be lopsided in Garcia favor because he’ll be even faster and tank not as strong. No conspiracy here this is just what happened and was noticable and it obviously has to do with business money and corruption much more than true athletic performance. Tank won but he didn’t beat him. The announcers wouldn’t even mention the blow to the back of the head or anything negative about tank or positive about Garcia and they tried their best not to even show a replay of the blow to the back of the head that caused the stoppage rather showing multiple other sequences as the reason prior to showing the last one and still didn’t speak on it at all. If this didn’t show you corruption or scripting then nothing will. Similar to Anderson Silva taking a dive against Paul. These things are as clear as day. I’m from Baltimore and enjoyed Davis as champ but this is just what happened tonight.
You wrote all of that to say nothing lol. There was no conspiracy to assist Tank. The audience had nothing to do with anything because they can’t fight with or for Tank. Tank has a great eraser called power. He caught Garcia flush who lost vision in his right eye and that’s all she wrote. Nothing more nothing less.
Garcia fought well and got out at the right time. Go on and make money at 130. Let Tank fight guys his own size at 135 and 140. Would love to see Tank vs Programs. That’s a fight of the year
I’ve begun to get sick of boxing forums. So many racists or trolls who think it’s funny or amusing to say things about black people, but most of them only know of blacks what they see on Tv. They don’t live around blacks, don’t know any beyond what they watch on TV or see on social media. I have to admit that what people see as far as rappers or what people see on Instagram isn’t black culture. People who actually know black people and our culture would never say the things I see on here. White people are so ignorant about black people. They have no clue about how we operate and have to deal with all the bs in this country. I’m not speaking for all white people, I’m just speaking for the majority that I see and talk to. They have no clue because most have no relationships with black people whatsoever.
Nobody noticed that tank finished him with a blow to the back of his head?
Why stop the fight for a fight in stands unless they thought there were guns in the stands which would be a strong possibility if they were friends with Davis and allowed to bypass metal detectors..strange to stop even if friends and family involved otherwise
I can’t wait for Tank vs. Kingry. Unlike Spence vs. Crawford, I think these lightweight sensations will actually get in the ring & it will be a great fight.
As for all the racial stuff on this forum, I haven’t heard anything like that in boxing since the days of Rock Newman, who brought up the race card every 5 minutes. I still blame Newman & his team for the race riot that occurred at Madison Square Garden after the first Riddick Bowe vs. Andrew Golata fight. Even 80-yr-old Lou Duva was attacked & beaten down. I wonder if anyone on this forum was at MSG that night?
Good points Nordic Annihilator. Similar to Jim Jeffries, John L. Sullivan, and Jack Dempsey using the “Race Card” to deny black fighters shots are their titles and every single professional sport in the USA as well. I suppose that’s why Jackie Robinson went through what he did because of the “Race Card”. Laughable…
If Tank starts slow against R Garcia it may be too late. He got away with it against HL but Ryan has speed and power. They both have flaws but it should be a fun fight to watch. I hope it happens.
I totally agree with Willis LV vision of the fight. The ref should have stopped the fight to let Garcia recover from the blow to the neck. By the way, the mob fight started after Garcia scored a blow that wobbled Davis. Strange stuff. The only way Garcia could have won the fight was by KO.
No surprise. Hopefully the fight with the real Garcia happens. Have my doubts
tank vs garcia could turn into a pretty good fight if it happens a suprise if it comes off in april have my doubts though
I think Tank is as big as he can go at 135. I know he’s a patient KO artist, but I can’t help feeling that the size difference is already showing up. Rolly Romero is terrible and Tank had to be extra careful and HLG is a JR Lightweight who still managed to look bigger and stronger at times. All credit to Tank for beating these guys, but I have to wonder about his chances at 140 against Ryan Garcia. I’ve always thought Kingry was huge at Lightweight, but he still looks big at 140. It’s an intriguing fight, because of Tanks power, but if Kingry takes his punch it might be a brutal beat down.
I wonder how Tank would do against Haney? Haney is a full sized Lightweight with speed, but he doesn’t seem like a Middleweight size wise.
No matter who he fights, Tank is a good watch. He always tries to close the show and he seems like a time bomb at all times to me. That is meant two ways: he’s as likely to self destruct as he is to destroy the opponent.
Tank is regularly in competitive fights… until he lands something solid and it’s over.
Well I was going to say it’s hard to respect a boxer after he quits on the stool but you have to live to fight another day. Also I’m not the one taking those punches.
Garcia won’t fight Tank. It will fall apart somehow. Tank needs to stop with the slow starts. One day he will run into someone who will take his punches and out work him. Cruz almost did it. As long as Tank hides in the PBC promotion he is just going to cherry pick opponents. He won’t fight Shakur or Haney
Ill never judge a fighter for quitting on the stool. As a fighter you need to have the courage to stop when you are hurt. If he couldn’t see even for a short time its a good thing to stop. Had he gone back the temporary blindness could have been changed to permanent. That or he could have been caught with a punch he couldn’t see coming. As a long time fan I want to see good fights, but I don’t want to watch a guy risk his career. The only time I’ve complained about quitting is when a person gets hit by a borderline illegal shot and milks it out hoping to win on DQ.
Racists all over these boxing comments! i havent been here for over a year and its still the same racist pos who hate black ppl who have never done a single thing to them but have the nerve to exist! there is a special place in hell for bigots who point fingers while ignoring their own dirt