Ryan Garcia has expressed interest in fighting Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis in a rematch.
It comes at a time when the Golden Boy Promotions welterweight is in demand after he bested Mario Barrios earlier in the year with a mature performance to wrest the welterweight world title from El Azteca’s waist in style.
The 27-year-old shows no signs of taking an easy title defense as, amid interest from Zuffa Boxing’s signing Conor Benn, Garcia talks up the idea of fighting Tank for a second time.
Their first bout, which took place in 2023 in Las Vegas, sold 1.2 million pay-per-views to US households and no fight has eclipsed that in the years since. It makes considerable business sense to replicate that magic and those close to ‘Tank’ have told Boxing Social similar in recent times.
Now, Garcia wants to run it back, too.
“I pray I get my rematch with ‘Tank’ one day,” Garcia said Wednesday on X. “I need that one back on even grounds. I need that!”
Garcia, of course, lost the first fight by brutal knockout via body shot.
His form since has remained erratic. He beat Oscar Duarte by eighth-round knockout, looked sublime against Devin Haney but got flagged for failing a drug test, lost to a disciplined Rolando Romero, and then finally came of age against Barrios, in February.
Davis has not been seen in a ring since his draw with Lamont Roach Jr. He said Wednesday, though, that “we back in action soon.”
