Davis/Garcia. Sunday.

[diehard]

https://www.boxing247.com/press-boxing/ryan-garcia-vs-gervonta-davis/23254

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https://fightnews.com/tank-kingry-final-press-conference/146908

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Tank, Kingry make weight

Gervonta Davis 135.1 vs. Ryan Garcia 135.5
(136lb catch weight, non-title)
Note: Both fighters exchanged quick shoves during the face-off before being separated.

David Morrell 167.8 vs. Yamaguchi Falcao 166.4
(WBA “regular” super middleweight title)

Gabriel Rosado 167.3 vs. Bektemir Melikuziev 167.3
Elijah Garcia 159.2 vs. Kevin Salgado 159.3

Fiodor Czerkaszyn 159.1 vs. Elias Espadas 158.9
Vito Mielnicki Jr 153.1 vs. Jose Sanchez Charles 154.3

Venue: T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas
Promoter: TGB Promotions
TV: Showtime PPV

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https://www.boxing247.com/boxing-news/showtime-ppv-weights-gervonta-davis-vs-ryan-garcia/261897

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Gervonta Davis and Ryan Garcia meet in most-anticipated boxing match of the year
Mark Anderson

Gervonta Davis and Ryan Garcia traded barbs before their lightweight clash in Las Vegas this weekend.
Boxing fans have spent the past couple of decades watching top fighters avoid each other in their primes and carefully pick lesser opponents so they can boost their records.

The lack of big-name bouts that would've driven even casual fans to order pay-per-view helped create a noticeable lack of buzz in the sport.

Saturday's (Sunday NZT) 12-round lightweight showdown between undefeated challengers Gervonta Davis and Ryan Garcia doesn't follow that path.

Both fighters are at the top of their games and because they opted to meet, they have sent needed electricity through the sport. The year's most-anticipated fight will take place on Saturday (Sunday NZT) in Las Vegas.

“I feel like this fight is big for the sport,” said the 28-year-old Davis, who is from Baltimore. “We’re drawing in a lot of people and a win on that night is really like winning a world title again.”

Garcia, 24, said seeing his face around the Las Vegas Strip brought home the meaning of this fight.

“This is what I've dreamed of since I was a little boy and now I'm here,” said Garcia, who lives in Los Angeles.

Even though both sides recognise what the fight means, there is genuine animosity between the boxers and their camps, a longtime war of words that continued through Thursday's (Friday NZT) news conference.

Davis accused Garcia of possessing only a left hook, and Garcia said Davis didn't have much punching power. They traded several barbs during the presser, calling each other delusional, and chirped again when they came face to face for the traditional pre-fight promotional pose.

Both promoters didn't hold back, either.

Oscar De La Hoya, chief executive of Golden Boy Promotions, got it started by saying Davis' camp kept asking for various contractual demands to be met, which “points to a team looking to protect their fighter. ... Nothing feels worse than your team not believing in you.”

Gervonta Davis is unbeaten in 28 fights and carries ferocious power, stopping 26 of his opponents.
“That is a confident fighter,” De La Hoya said, looking at Garcia. “That's why you're going to see Ryan come out as the new face of boxing Saturday night.”

Leonard Ellerbe, chief executive of Mayweather Promotions, didn't back down.

“We're the A-side of the situation,” Ellerbe said. “That's how the A-side carries itself.”

Some of the back-and-forth likely was promotional schtick, but given the fight is a sellout and is expected to bring in major pay-per-view numbers, it didn't need much extra hype.

De La Hoya and Ellerbe knew what was at stake when negotiating this match, and they put whatever differences they had aside to make it happen.

“It's not often in today's age you see two young fighters both undefeated, both in their prime, step in the ring together,” said Tom Brown, president of TGB Promotions. “This fight will be an instant classic, an all-out war, a Hagler versus Hearns. The good thing is with Tank Davis, we have Hagler.”

Marvin Hagler knocked out Thomas Hearns in the third round of their epic 1985 fight, one of the most action-packed bouts in history.

The Davis-Garcia winner could set up a showdown with undefeated Devin Haney, who owns all four major championship belts in this division. Haney faces former champ Vasiliy Lomachenko in May, also in Las Vegas.

Davis is a minus-290 favourite, according to FanDuel Sportsbook, and he has devastating power. Of his 28 victories, 26 have come by knockout.

Ryan Garcia has won 19 of 23 fights via knockout but is an underdog against Gervonta 'Tank' Davis.
Part of what makes this match so intriguing is both boxers are capable of ending it at nearly any time. Garcia has won 19 of 23 matches through knockouts.

It's like the 1990s when boxing fans knew they couldn't miss any part of a Mike Tyson fight because he could end it within seconds. In this case, both boxers are capable of doing that.

A great show could elevate Davis or Garcia into a Tyson-like status that boxing badly needs, or at least begin generating the types of conversations in combat sports that have most recently been reserved for mixed martial arts.

In the co-main event, undefeated WBA super middleweight champion David Morrell Jr faces former Olympic bronze medallist Yamaguchi Falcao. Morrell, 25, is 8-0 with seven knockouts, and 35-year-old Falcao is 24-1-1 and has won eight matches in a row, including five last year.

FanDuel lists Morrell as a minus-1,800 favourite.

[diehard]

Bart, will your techies be working on the fight this afternoon? Please, please, please!

[bart]

lol yes what time you think it will be on?

[diehard]

I believe the undercard starts at 1PM, with the main event around 4PM? It's in Vegas, which is 5 hours ahead of us (the day before).

Many thanks if you can pull it off!

[bart]

Yip son said he will have something closer to the maincard time

[diehard]

Thanks bart. Give your son a reward from me for helping me out. As it's not in the UK, might be a little harder.