Undefeated light-weight Ryan Garcia returned to the ring after 15 months out with a convincing win over Ghana’s Emmanuel Tagoe.
The American was in management all through however was pressured to go 12 rounds for the primary time in his profession with Tagoe providing little or no and seemingly completely satisfied simply to go the space.
Garcia put Tagoe on the canvas late in spherical two with a proper shovel hook however the Ghanaian beat the rely earlier than instantly clinching to outlive the spherical.
The bout adopted the identical sample till the ultimate bell with Garcia working to seek out the knockout blow and Tagoe nearly managing to carry on, whereas sending treasured little again at his Californian opponent.
The judges scored the struggle 119-108, 118-109, 119-108 to Garcia to take the 23-year-old to to 22-0 (19KOs) and finish Tagoe’s 32-fight profitable streak, he’s now 32-2 after struggling his first defeat since his professional debut practically 18 years in the past.
“I needed to stroll him down, he wasn’t giving me something,” Garcia mentioned after the struggle. “I am going to be taught extra, I do know I acquired much more in me.”
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On the potential of revisiting a superfight with Gervonta Davis, Garcia added: “I do not need to name anybody out. We already did that and people fights did not occur. I do not need to deceive y’all. I simply need to be taught from this and transfer on. If the struggle occurs, it occurs.”
