By: Sean Crose
“We’re targeting mid November,” Oscar De La Hoya stated to Fight Hype in a lately printed interview. “We’re having ongoing discussions with his team. We’re having ongoing discussions with DAZN, and we’re nailing down a venue and opponents. Then we’ll hopefully announce very soon.” De La Hoya and his crew are “targeting” mid November for the return of the extremely standard Ryan Garcia. Although the younger Californian suffered his first loss – by way of knockout on the gloved fingers of Gervonta Davis – his final time within the ring, De La Hoya feels it’s time to begin pondering of Garcia’s return.
“Anywhere Ryan goes he will fill up an arena,” stated De La Hoya. “All we do as promoters is try to navigate what’s best for his career, so he can get to the top, to the elite top.” De La Hoya was requested if the authorized battle he’s been having with Garcia – who claimed to be sad with the way in which De La Hoya and firm had been dealing with his profession – had come to a satisfying conclusion. “I can’t really talk about what’s going on now, but everything will be resolved,” he stated. “I just feel we had a little bump in the road but everything will be smoothed out.”
De La Hoya went on to point that Garcia has definitely completed properly for himself combating beneath De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions’ banner. “He’s right there,” De La Hoya stated of Garcia. “He’s a bona fide true star in boxing…he just did over two million homes on pay per view with Gervonta Davis for a reason.” What’s extra, De La Hoya additionally indicated that the defeat to Davis shouldn’t find yourself being too damaging to Garcia’s total profession. “Yes, he’s coming off a loss,” he stated of Garcia, “but you’re as good as your last fight. So, if we get him back on a winning streak he will be back on top of the world.”
Although he’s lately suffered his first loss, De La Hoya believes there could possibly be a giant occasion for Garcia within the close to future. “There’s a huge weekend,” he stated, “Super Bowl Weekend…and we’re talking to some people, and I strongly feel that the only fighter who can headline such an event would be Ryan Garcia.” Of course, a struggle of that dimension would imply Garcia must struggle a high or at the least well-known opponent. “Obviously it all depends on the opponent,” De La Hoya stated. “It needs to be for a world title. It needs to be a giant title (Teofimo Lopez and Adrien Broner had been two of the names talked about in the course of the course of the interview).
“He’s still in the driver’s seat,” De La Hoya stated of his fighter, making it clear Garcia stays one of many greatest names within the sport.
