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AS talented as they are troubled, lightweights Gervonta “Tank” Davis and Ryan “King Ry” Garcia have to date faced their biggest battles away from the ring rather than inside it.
The pair have, in accumulating a combined record of 51-0 (45), beaten every opponent they have so far encountered when wearing gloves and have also avoided fighting opponents considered either equals or rivals. That will all change on Saturday (April 22), however, when Davis and Garcia meet in Las Vegas, where at last a perfect record will be blemished and bragging rights will be claimed by one of the two.
Which of the two is likely to have the last laugh remains to be seen, but one thing is clear: this fight, mooted for some time, has been stretched to breaking point. That it happens now, at a time when Davis finds himself in trouble with the law and Garcia continues to seek a breakout win, is perhaps no coincidence.
Ticking time bombs, the both of them, there
