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Gervonta Davis and Ryan Garcia Get Into Heated Banter on Mental Health

Published 08/17/2022, 9:00 AM EDT

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Right after Gervonta Davis fought and won against ‘Rolly’, a talk concerning a fight with Ryan Garcia became almost prevalent in the sport. Garcia has openly acknowledged his desire to face Davis, and the latter has not entirely flown the idea of fighting Garcia into thin air. Although Davis is highly adamant about leaving the 135lbs weight class where he ranks at no. 3, Garcia, keeping his own advantages in mind, insists the fight takes place in 140lbs, in the junior welterweight.

Garcia’s last victory was against Javier Fortuna on July 16th, this year. Initially, the fight was supposed to happen on July 9th, 2021. However, because of certain “mental health” issues, ‘The Flash’ withdrew from the fight. Recently, the duo, Garcia and Davis bantered on Twitter and took it out in public.

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Probably, in not so a mature and wise move to create hype about their upcoming fight (which is still a concept), Davis took a shot at Garcia’s mental health, and Garcia consequently promised the former “power of the TRUTH.”

Gervonta Davis threatens to fight mental health by putting the pain on Ryan Garcia

TalkSport correspondent Michael Benson tweeted the banter from his personal account. He had it captioned as, “Gervonta Davis and Ryan Garcia exchanging words on social media today…” 

 

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In one, Davis expressed he and Garcia were different and that he would show the latter by putting the pain on him. Davis wrote, “We just built different, we come from different places..and I want to show it..you kno how I’ll fight my mental health..by putting the pain on you!”

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At this, the following is how Garcia replied, “Being honest about mental health is strength. Educate yourself and don’t bring that hate to our beautiful sport. Now go tell your team to make our fight so you can see, feel the power of the TRUTH”.

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What is your take on their conversation? How would you perceive such behaviors from the two? Let us know in the comments.

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Samrat Sardar is a Boxing writer at EssentiallySports and is currently a final year undergraduate student of English literature. A passionate content creator, he has been writing since his high school days, and possesses work experience as a commercial writer for companies such as WordsKraft among others. Samrat believes he fell in love with boxing the day he watched Vasiliy Lomachenko share the ring with Guillermo Rigondeaux.
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