Gervonta Davis Knocks Out Ryan Garcia With A Body Punch In The Seventh Round The fight of the year ended with Davis named as the “face of boxing”

By Andre Johnson Zenger News

LAS VEGAS — The Saturday night showdown of what many thought would be the biggest fight of the year, between Gervonta “Tank“ Davis and Ryan “King” Garcia, turned out to be more confirmation of the new face of boxing. Davis proved himself to be a machine as he put Garcia to the canvas twice, only to have him not respond after a body shot to the liver in the seventh round, registering a TKO victory for Davis.

Davis(29- 0, 27 KO) scored a left hook to Garcia’s(23-1, 19 KO) body backing him up then forcing the California native now with one blemish on his record, to take one knee in agony never getting up as the ref counted him out at to 10 at 1:44 of Round 7 before a sellout crowd of 20,842 at the T-Mobile Arena, at the time of the stoppage all three judges scored the bout 9594, 97-92 and 97-92 all for Davis who was in command of the bout most of the evening and now without a doubt is the face of professional boxing.

“I didn’t think that body shot would end it, but I saw his facial expression and that’s what made me take it to him. now It was a good shot, for sure, “ said the 28-year-old Davis who is now the new King of Boxing. “I thought he was going to get up but I like to play mind games, so when he was looking at me, I was looking at him trying to tell him, ‘Get up!’. And he just shook his head, no.” Garcia for his part early in the fight had a few impressive rallies in the first, second and sixth round that got his fan base excited about his chances to win but in the end, Davis proved to be the more talented, skilled, and experienced fighter that had an answer for everything that Garcia brought, forcing him to quit.

Garcia takes a knee after a body punch from Davis in Las Vegas on Apr 22, 2023. (Esther Lin/ SHOWTIME)