By: Sean Crose
Ryan Garcia’s return to the ring Saturday evening in Houston was not going as deliberate.
Indeed, the followers have been booing. For within the second half of the struggle, Garcia seemed as if he is perhaps on the highway to victory merely by avoiding his opponent, Oscar Duarte, and firing the occasional shot. The 25 yr outdated Garcia, nevertheless, turned the boos to cheers with a single left to Duarte’s head within the eighth spherical of their scheduled 12 spherical junior welterweight battle. Wobbled, Duarte tried to maintain to his ft, however a Garcia combo despatched the gutsy Mexican to the mat. He was subsequently counted out. Granted, Duarte could have gotten to his ft earlier than the referee reached the depend of ten, nevertheless it was onerous accountable the ref for making what he felt was – and what in all probability was certainly – the correct name.
An issue Duarte had all through the bout was that he refused to steer along with his jab whereas Garcia was allowed to choose his man aside coming in. Garcia rocked Duarte in sixth, however surprisingly sufficient virtually turned his again quite a few instances all through the struggle in an effort to defend himself. When Duarte was in a position to land, he steadily attacked Garcia’s midsection, which can have led Garcia to get on his bicycle all through the seventh and a part of the eighth. This technique led to the group booing, nevertheless it was clear Garcia knew what he was doing.
After the struggle, Garcia gave because of God and expressed his want for folks to show to Jesus. He additionally acknowledged that he wished Rolly Romero as an opponent, in addition to different massive names in his weight class. Interestingly sufficient, Garcia didn’t use the put up struggle interview to talk sick of Oscar De La Hoya and Bernard Hopkins, the Golden Boy Boxing honchos the favored American fighter has been feuding with fairly publicly. Since being stopped by Gervonta Davis in an April superfight, there have been questions concerning how effectively Garcia would look upon his return to the ring. Although it wasn’t a stellar efficiency from Garcia Saturday evening in Houston, it was most definitely an efficient one.
