The previous few years have seen various excessive profile MMA fighters make the soar over to boxing. Everybody from Conor McGregor to Anderson Silva and Tito Ortiz; hell even Ben Askren laced up a pair of gloves to check his mettle contained in the ring. Given the potential for bigger purses and better profile bouts, it’s little marvel that so many fight sports activities athletes look to boxing as a possibility they’ll’t move up.
With that dynamic in play, it’s additionally no shock that we not often see fighters going the other way. James Toney made a notable spectacle of himself again in 2010 in opposition to Randy Couture. He’s just about the beginning and finish of the dialog in the case of notable boxers who’ve set foot contained in the UFC’s Octagon.
It simply may be that former WBC interim light-weight champ and still-unbeaten 24-year-old title contender Ryan Garcia may look to vary all that. Again in 2021, ‘The Flash’ introduced that he deliberate to retire from boxing at age 26, and take his abilities to MMA.
“You already know what I’m prepared to do?” Garcia teased. “I actually haven’t mentioned this out loud however what I plan to do is—say, at 26, I’m completed retired and boxing is all good. You already know what I’ll do? If they are saying, ‘Okay, you’ve overwhelmed everyone within the ring, proper?’ However anyone goes, ‘This ain’t actual preventing. Actual preventing is legs, choking, submission, all that.’ Guess what I’ll do? I’ll go show to them that I’m the very best fighter throughout on the planet. I’m speaking about arms, I’m speaking about wrestling. I’ll go to MMA to show a degree that God is best and I’ll beat whoever in MMA that they are saying I gained’t beat. If it must be Conor McGregor, I’ll. And I’m not saying this to get cash. I don’t care about cash. I’m saying this as a result of that’s simply how I really feel.”
He’s nonetheless received a pair years to go earlier than its time for the rubber to satisfy the street, however it a minimum of seems that Garcia continues to be all for making good on his proclamation. In a current video uploaded to the Gracie Breakdown YouTube channel, Rener Gracie walked Garcia by means of his first BJJ class. Take a look at some highlights from the lesson under.
For the second, Garcia’s focus continues to be firmly on his boxing profession. Unbeaten at 23-0, ‘KingRy’ is predicted to compete in a 136 lb. catchweight bout in opposition to WBA light-weight champion Gervonta Davis on April fifteenth. There gained’t be any titles on the road for the bout, with Garcia in any other case competing within the 140 lb. mild welterweight division sooner or later.
Even when followers can’t anticipate to see him within the Octagon anytime quickly, it looks as if Garcia is laying the groundwork for some thrilling strikes someplace additional down the road.
