Gervonta Davis v Ryan Garcia 4/22

[Ron Swanson]

Boxing loses no matter who wins. Especially when both insist THEY will be the face of boxing should they win tonight. Ridiculous. Especially coming from Ryan. Again... if I'm stuck rooting for one of them, I guess I'll pick Davis... 'cause I can't stomach what the Instagram King stands for.

Yup, Ryan winning would be the worst possible outcome for the sort. A guy builds his brand on IG and becomes a PPV star without ever winning a title. Nightmare

do you give kingry credit for taking the tank fight?

Credit for what, it’s a huge payday without ever earning a huge payday? Everyone wants a Tank fight

I give all fighters credit for getting in the ring but when you get the biggest possible bag it’s less credit, not more

[Spicoli]

Boxing loses no matter who wins. Especially when both insist THEY will be the face of boxing should they win tonight. Ridiculous. Especially coming from Ryan. Again... if I'm stuck rooting for one of them, I guess I'll pick Davis... 'cause I can't stomach what the Instagram King stands for.

Yup, Ryan winning would be the worst possible outcome for the sort. A guy builds his brand on IG and becomes a PPV star without ever winning a title. Nightmare

Didn't think of it like that at first but case makes itself. Garcia has natural talent but can be said he's taken big shortcuts, bit smoke & mirrors when it comes to actual hard carved ring accomplishment and build versus leaning hard into the social media creation and reliance. When he opted out of keeping busy with Gesta in an actual fight and just sat around making more vids of pad work, speaks volumes.

Think the fight also benefits from fans starving for these 'stars' to shake the phobia of simply being active. Years ago this is a main or co main on hbo like so many other cases of top contenders-title holders wanting to face top challenges. Used to be a thing. A mentality and level of expectation.

[TitoFan]

Boxing loses no matter who wins. Especially when both insist THEY will be the face of boxing should they win tonight. Ridiculous. Especially coming from Ryan. Again... if I'm stuck rooting for one of them, I guess I'll pick Davis... 'cause I can't stomach what the Instagram King stands for.

Yup, Ryan winning would be the worst possible outcome for the sort. A guy builds his brand on IG and becomes a PPV star without ever winning a title. Nightmare

DLH is as much to blame for the manufactured hype for this fight as anyone else. Understandably so, as Oscar is Ryan's promoter and is perfectly willing to whore himself out... if it keeps him relevant and in the money.

But he does boxing no favors when he claims... "this is the fight to save boxing."

"Save boxing??" By pushing a fighter totally made on social media?? What a douche...

If Garcia wins and begins topping p4p lists and becomes "the face of boxing"... maybe it's time to stop following fighters the traditional way... and get a Tik Tok account.

[TIC]

Boxing loses no matter who wins. Especially when both insist THEY will be the face of boxing should they win tonight. Ridiculous. Especially coming from Ryan. Again... if I'm stuck rooting for one of them, I guess I'll pick Davis... 'cause I can't stomach what the Instagram King stands for.

Yup, Ryan winning would be the worst possible outcome for the sort. A guy builds his brand on IG and becomes a PPV star without ever winning a title. Nightmare

do you give kingry credit for taking the tank fight?

Credit for what, it’s a huge payday without ever earning a huge payday? I give all fighters credit for getting in the ring

do you see tank as a challenge for kingry?

[TitoFan]

Elijah Garcia vs Kevin Salgado up first.

[Spicoli]

$85 . Guess I can justify it as I know for sure we're not paying for Canelo v Ryder . Know what they're going to do with Davis v Ryan though...just play it for "free" in a few days like they did Plant v Benavidez.

[TIC]

Elijah Garcia vs Kevin Salgado up first.

elijah is good

[TitoFan]

Round 1 to Salgado.

[TIC]

gave the first to kevin

[TitoFan]

2-0 Salgado. Elijah not busy enough.

[TIC]

second to kevin

[TitoFan]

Elijah waking up a bit. Still... 3-0 Salgado.

[TIC]

third to kevin

[TitoFan]

Elijah won that round at the end. I have it 3-1.

[Spicoli]

Where's he bleeding mouth and nose?! Salgado looks to have more on them inside.