Ryan Garcia is able to commerce in his eight-ounce gloves for a pair of four-ouncers.
The previous interim WBC light-weight titleholder has struck up a rivalry with one of many UFC’s high stars and present bantamweight world champion, Sean O’Malley. Garcia not too long ago declared that he can be greater than prepared to combat ‘Sugar’ contained in the Octagon, as long as Dana White writes him a giant fats verify for doing so.
‘The Flash’ doubled down on his put up throughout an look on Monday’s episode of The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani.
“I’ll beat his ass in MMA, assured,” Garcia stated. “You don’t perceive, I’m a pure wrestler. I simply beat my safety who’s a wrestler. I beat him. I’m sturdy and I bought loopy conditioning. I do know I’m gonna knock him out in boxing. That’s not even honest. What’s honest is to check myself in MMA as a result of I do know if I put my thoughts to it and prepare day by day and I had Nate [Diaz] serving to me, even Alex Pereira… All of them and I actually locked in, he won’t beat me.
“I’ll include every little thing I’ve and I’ll destroy Sean O’Malley within the UFC. I’ve already despatched textual content messages to Dana [White]. I’ve already bought folks related to Dana to ask him. Let’s do that. I’ll come to the UFC. Pay me a bag and I’m there. I’m all the way down to do it.”
Traditionally, combined martial artists have accomplished fairly nicely transferring from MMA to boxing, however the different means round has usually produced disastrous outcomes. Essentially the most infamous instance was at UFC 118 in August 2010 when multi-time boxing world champion James Toney stepped contained in the Octagon for a crossover conflict with Randy Couture. As anticipated, Couture rapidly took down Toney and submitted him within the opening spherical.
To not recommend that Ryan Garcia would endure the identical destiny. In all chance, Sean O’Malley would decide to face and commerce in an try and beat the boxing star at his personal recreation. That will give Garcia a good likelihood to attain what would undoubtedly be a large upset — not only for O’Malley, however for the game of MMA.
On Saturday, April 20, ‘King Ryan’ will problem reigning and defending WBC tremendous light-weight champion Devin Haney. The bout is predicted to emanate from the Barclays Centre in Brooklyn, NY.
