Ryan Garcia set for a restart in a new weight class and with a new trainer after loss to Gervonta Davis
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Garcia is moving up to 140 pounds full time in pursuit of gold and big-money attractions, starting on Saturday night
Boxing is an undeniably cruel game. Demands that fighters take risks and face the best are constantly present and failure to either take these steps up or suffer a loss if the risk is taken can lead to observers trashing them. Ryan Garcia is one of the latest examples of this. He enters a fight with Oscar Duarte on Saturday in an attempt to bounce back and prove there's still far more to his journey than his April knockout loss to fellow superstar Gervonta "Tank" Davis.
Few 24-year-old fighters with massive upside and hype take a fight against a highly-skilled rival like Davis to begin with, especially without a world championship on the line, but that's exactly what Garcia, now 25, did earlier this year in one of the most lucrative fights of 2023.
"It didn't shake me of my confidence too much, but of my focus? Yeah, I don't want to lose again," Garcia told "Morning Kombat" last month.
