Floyd Mayweather Tells Ryan Garcia If He Wants To Fight Gervonta Davis At 135 He’ll Make It Happen By The End Of The Year
Floyd Mayweather has sent a message to Ryan Garcia saying he will make the Gervonta Davis fight by the end of the year.
Garcia and Davis have taken shots at one another for quite some time and after Garcia knocked out Javier Fortuna last weekend, he once again called out Davis. It would be a massive fight for the sport and Mayweather is confident he can make it happen this year.
“The main man in the sport of boxing right now is the one that’s attached to me, Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis,” Mayweather told FightHype’s Ben Thompson. “That’s the only thing this kid Ryan Garcia, that’s the only thing that he know is ‘Tank.’ That’s the only name that he know is ‘Tank.’ Right? ‘Oh, I wanna fight ‘Tank.’ I don’t care, it’s the biggest fight.’ OK, you wanna fight ‘Tank?’ You know, in boxing, we make sacrifices. So, we know ‘Tank’ fight at 135. So, if you wanna fight ‘Tank’ at 135, we can make it happen before the end of the year.”
The one problem with that, is the fact Ryan Garcia just fought at 140lbs and whether or not he will cut back down to 135lbs is uncertain. Yet, if he does, Floyd Mayweather knows it would be a massive fight.
“You just fought at 135? So, why can’t you fight at 135 again?,” asked Mayweather, who apparently was unaware that the Garcia-Fortuna fight was contested at the junior welterweight limit of 140 pounds. “He’s young. I could see if he was a lot older. He’s not in his 30s. When you get older, you, you know, guys get older and the weight settle in, and then you be like, ‘OK, I can’t make the weight no more.’ But he’s young. We have to make sacrifices. If it’s certain things that you want in the sport of boxing, like Ryan Garcia really want this fight with ‘Tank,’ so if you really want this fight with ‘Tank,’ sacrifice.
“We have to make sacrifices. Even though I know I wasn’t a 154-pounder, I knew that I wasn’t a junior middleweight, but I knew there was certain sacrifices I have to make. Oscar De La Hoya chose the gloves, chose the judges, he chose everything, the weight class, he chose everything. I knew I was a better fighter. I felt I was a better fighter. And I showed y’all I was the better fighter. So, guess what I did? I made sacrifices. So, if you feel like you can beat ‘Tank,’ you the better fighter, then guess what? Make sacrifices. You just fought at 135. What, we gonna fight in 90 days? We can fight in 90 days if he want to, whatever he wanna do. They gonna get smoked.”
Do you think Ryan Garcia vs. Tank Davis happens this year?
