The head honcho of the Golden Boy promoter, Óscar De La Hoya, confessed this Sunday that he believes that his pupil Ryan García is the new important face in boxing due to the sales he left in his last fight against Gervonta Davis.
The expectation of the confrontation between García and Davis was manifested in the sales of Pay Per View (PPV), accumulating more than 1.2 million sales and ranking 5th in the largest sales in history under this modality.
For that reason, De La Hoya justified that Garcia is boxing and not Davis, despite the fact that Tank was the winner of the fight with a sudden KO in the seventh round.
“Like it or not, Ryan Garcia is the new face of the PPV. Gervonta Davis only sold 200,000 PPV sometimes without Ryan, with Ryan in the fight more than a million were generated,” De La Hoya said on social media.
However, the statements did not go under the table for Gervonta Davis himself, who decided that the best way to respond to the publication was with a photo of himself sending Garcia to the canvas during the second round of the fight.
Accustomed to controversy over his statements, De La Hoya has been criticized in recent days for not appearing at the press conference after the Ryan García fight, justifying his absence with alleged death threats that he would have received if he attended the meeting. conference.