Ryan Garcia looks desperate and insecure after launching a nasty, unprovoked attack on retired legend Terence Crawford. Mocking a 42-0 three-division undisputed champion? Garcia’s jealousy is showing — and boxing fans are calling him out for it.
Garcia is taking on Conor Benn next up and he should be focused on that fight soon.
It speaks to the side of Garcia that has seen him make poor decisions, like taking the Conor Benn fight in the first place instead of a Devin Haney rematch, a far more relevant fight for him and in America.
The Conor Benn fight is a small irrelevant fight in the US really, Benn not that much a big name in America, Haney a five times bigger fight at least.
Some things to note on Garcia attacking the Bud numbers of all of a sudden, even though Bud retired for a bit at this point from the sport;
- Ryan Garcia comes across as bitter and jealous, unable to accept that Terence Crawford achieved more in boxing than he ever will
- Garcia looks desperate for attention, attacking a retired legend simply because Crawford chose Devin Haney over him
- Mocking a fighter’s streaming numbers is a cheap, low-class move that exposes Garcia’s insecurity about his own lack of mainstream appeal
- Garcia conveniently ignores that Crawford is a three-division undisputed champion with a perfect 42-0 record — something Garcia could never dream of
- By trashing Crawford’s pre-Canelo numbers, Garcia proves he doesn’t understand or respect boxing history or legacy
- Garcia’s own pay-per-view numbers are nothing special lately, needs bigger fights than Romero, Barrios and Conor Benn — making his criticism of Crawford’s viewership wildly hypocritical
- Kicking a man who just retired on top makes Garcia look petty, classless, and incapable of celebrating another fighter’s success
- Garcia talks about fighting legends but has never beaten anyone remotely close to Crawford’s caliber
- Crawford retired on his own terms with nothing left to prove — Garcia is just mad he’ll never get the payday fight he so desperately craves
- The boxing community is overwhelmingly siding with Crawford, calling Garcia’s comments disrespectful, immature, and downright embarrassing
- Garcia’s unprovoked attack shows he’s more focused on tearing others down than building his own struggling legacy
- If Garcia spent half as much time training as he does running his mouth, he might actually have a resume worth defending
Bud proved himself at this point and sailed into the sunset post boxing.
Garcia needs to get in there in big fights against big names, Conor Benn a dangerous fight but not a big name.
Big names and big danger is the formula for big pay days and Ryan Garcia is familiar in that having done some big fights before against Tank and Haney and so on.
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