Boxing Challenge: Garcia Stops Fortuna

      Ryan Garcia was noticeably larger than Javier Fortuna at the first visual glance of the two and he fought like the bigger man as he rarely allowed Fortuna to attack, let alone land a punch.

And when Garcia landed punches, he was the much bigger puncher as he dropped Fortuna three times with left hooks, once in round four, another in round five, and the final in round six, which ended the fight in Garcia's favor.

Garcia's win was impressive but I'm not quite as impressed as many seem to be by the victory as while Fortuna is a solid contender, he has never succeeded against the elite of any division, and Fortuna is naturally a junior lightweight with Garcia moving north in weight.

Every time that Garcia landed solidly, you could see that Fortuna was badly outgunned and when Garcia scored the first knockdown in the fourth round, the outcome was decided, only when the fight would end was in question.

Fortuna was resigned to occasional fruitless lunges to attempt to get to Garcia but was punished with each attempt by Garcia consistently landing the left hook that would score the three knockdowns.

Garcia called out Gervonta Davis for a fight that many will anticipate and just as many would be surprised if the network issues (Garcia DAZN and Davis Showtime) could be straightened out in order to make the fight.

Garcia also said that he preferred to stay in the junior welterweight division and challenged Davis to fight him at that weight.

That would be an advantage for Garcia as the naturally larger man as Davis doesn't really have the frame to move much higher than 140 pounds.

A Garcia-Davis fight carries lots of intrigue as both fighters have one-shot knockout power.

Neither has faced the best competition yet with Garcia's best win over long-time top ten lightweight Luke Campbell with Davis's best win over Jose Pedraza years ago.

I think Davis has the better chin from what we have seen thus far but style-wise, Garcia may have the edge with the smaller Davis having to attack the lanky Garcia in the same manner as Javier Fortuna unsuccessfully tried last night.

I'd love to see this one signed and in the ring before the end of the year but I will believe it when I see it.

Boxing Challenge

TRS: 131 Pts (2)

Ramon Malpica: 111 Pts (3)

Vince Samano: 107 Pts (1)