Boxing, Gervonta Davis wins the match of the year: King Garcia ko in the seventh round

The reputation of a problematic boy was brought into the ring, one of those who have the natural gift of getting into trouble with justice. All true, facts don’t usually tell lies. But now is the time to celebrate Gervonta Davis as not just a villain of the ring, but a great boxer. He faced in the most awaited match of the year, from both a media and a technical point of view, Ryan Garciahis exact opposite: handsome, very popular on social media (followed by 9 million people), classic face perfect for advertising so to speak.

Davis dominated him with strategy and above all with the power of his shots, extraordinary for a lightweight. He let Garcia take the stage, but when he hit him it was devastating. An electric match revolved around two shots. In the second round Davis with a left hook he sent Garcia down for the first time. In the seventh King Ry (this is his alias), he didn’t digest another left foot from Davis, an uppercut to his side. Blow heard a few seconds late, one of the worst to absorb, and in fact… Garcia bent down, waited for the referee to count down, didn’t get up before ten. A lucid surrender, almost an awareness of the greater strength of his opponent who in some respects brought to mind (at least to that of those with some gray hair) the epilogue of a Arguello-Pryor, match between great warriors of the eighties.

Speaking of the boxing that was, the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas was a recurrence between the present and the past, with the audience divided between Garcia, Davis and the ovations to the many legends at ringside. Mike Tyson, Ray Sugar Leonard, Manny Pacquiao, just to name a few. and then of course Oscar DeLa Hoya and Floyd Mayweather, mentors respectively of Garcia and Davis. Returning to the match, entering the ring had sent a more serene Garcia, confident of his means. Certainties that Davis began to take away from him with the knockdown in the second round. Garcia tried to get back on top, trying to make use of the greater height (8 cm) to keep the opponent at a distance. The sixth round was the best of the Californian, who created some problems for Davis with a right to the temple. It could have been the turnaround of the match, it was enough to wait a round to understand that it was just an impression. For Davis it is the twenty-ninth victory in as many fights (27 won before the limit). Garcia instead accuses the first defeat in the 24th match,