Gervonta Davis v Ryan Garcia is one of the biggest fights that can be made today. It’s also a depressing reminder of boxing’s tolerance for criminality
which left four people hospitalized, including a pregnant woman. After the judge overseeing the case rejected a plea deal that would have allowed him to serve 60 days of unsupervised home detention, Davis faces the real prospect of jail time at his sentencing on 5 May. All it took was a little prick.
On 22 April at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas – less than two weeks before his potential incarceration – Davis will meet Ryan Garcia in a scheduled 12-round bout at a catch-weight of 136lbs in one of the most significant matches that can be made in boxing today.
Davis, who turned up nearly two hours late on Wednesday to promote the biggest fight of his career, left most of the talking to his younger foe, dissing Garcia as a sort of apple-polishing company stooge for the sin of arriving on time. Unsurprisingly, his legal troubles went unaddressed during the moderated news conference.
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