Top lightweight contender Shakur Stevenson believes Ryan Garcia wasn’t on the same level as Gervonta “Tank” Davis.
Last Saturday night at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Davis dropped Garcia in the second round and then finished him off with a body shot in the seventh.
Stevenson was a very interested observer.
“I felt Tank looked sharp. He was real sharp. He boxed real good. I think Ryan was pre-school. Ryan wasn’t on that top level,” Stevenson said to TMZ Sports.
“I ain’t think Ryan was that good. I ain’t taking no credit away from Tank. Tank did what he was supposed to do but Ryan wasn’t that.”
Stevenson studied the action and felt Garcia made several key mistakes in the bout.
“He ain’t know his distance. He was looking for one left hook the whole entire fight. He threw a left hook three times in a row and got clipped. Anybody knows that when you’re fighting Tank, you can’t do something three times in a row because his brain is like a computer. He picks up on it,” Stevenson said.
Stevenson has long said that a showdown with Tank would be the biggest fight in the sport.
He hopes to get in the ring with Tank at some point in the coming future.
“I would love that fight. I think that’s the biggest and best fight in the sport of boxing,” Stevenson said.
“You got like a Michael Jordan that came around in his era. Then you got a LeBron that came around in his era but they wasn’t in the same era so we never got to see them go against each other. With me and Tank, you got two special fighters that been special our whole careers and our whole lives. When it comes down to it, it’s going to be the biggest and best fight in boxing.
“I can’t wait. I feel like I’m a bad motherf—— when it comes to this boxing stuff. The people who really know boxing going to tell you that’s the big fight and I agree with them. I think that that’s the biggest fight.”