Ryan Garcia Lays Out Retirement Plan

Ryan Garcia has laid out his plans for his retirement, despite being just 25 years old.

Garcia is set to return to the boxing ring on April 20 against Devin Haney at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. It’s an intriguing matchup and although Garcia is the underdog, he says beating Haney is the first step of his retirement plan.

“I want to end my career fighting Tank Davis for the second time at 140lbs, after I defeat Devin, Teofimo [Lopez], Shakur [Stevenson], and then Tank,” said Garcia. “And then I’m done.

Ryan Garcia has always chased the biggest fights, so it isn’t a surprise he wants to fight all the big names around his weight. He also knows fighting at 140lbs is much better for him, as he says he messed up by cutting so much weight to face Gervonta Davis.

“It’s just stupid,” Garcia said of the quit jibes. “Okay, I want to see somebody cut all that weight, kill themselves, have blisters in your mouth because you’re so dehydrated, get in the ring, fight in front of everybody in the biggest fight of your life and get hit to the liver and you see what you’ll do. Don’t talk like that.” 

However, Ryan Garcia says the loss to Gervonta Davis helped him for the better as he is looking forward to proving that against Devin Haney.

“After that Tank fight, it really changed me – it awoke my competitive spirit,” Garcia said. “When you’re going through a mental-health crisis, you don’t care about life, so me trying to get back into the sport and trying to be myself, it was a hard process. And then after the Tank fight, I woke up. I was like, ‘No I’m different. I’m about to go and destroy everybody now’.”

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