Ryan Garcia picked up the biggest win of his career, with the popular 22-year-old beating Luke Campbell and establishing himself as a true contender at 135 lbs. He stopped Campbell with a 7th-round body shot, but what’s more impressive is that Garcia had to survive a knockdown earlier as well.
Promoter Oscar De La Hoya gave him an “A+” grade for the win, and said that Garcia is finally a “man” now.
“It was like a flash knockdown, right? But it was a scary flash knockdown,” De La Hoya told Fight Hub. “And he became a man, that’s all there is to it.