‘You Can’t Even Conjure Up a Real Sentence’: Ryan Garcia Rips Apart ‘Low IQ’ Gervonta Davis For Mental Health Remarks

WBA (Regular) lightweight titleholder, Gervonta Davis, and the WBC interim lightweight champion, Ryan Garcia, are two of the most iconic names in their division. And, according to fans, a showdown between the duo has been one of the most highly anticipated fights in the lightweight division. Meanwhile, Garcia has been very open about his mental health struggles and has also been a vocal advocate of the mental well-being of boxers. Davis, on the other hand, believes that Garcia and many other boxers have been using mental health as an excuse to get out of fights.

‘Tank’ is currently set to defend his WBA (Regular) lightweight title against Hector Garcia on January 7, 2023. Moreover, this fight will serve as a shocker ahead of his April 2023 showdown against ‘KingRy’.

In the meantime, Davis recently hosted a media workout in Miami. At the event, BroBible caught up with him to talk about his upcoming fight. And his future Garcia bout.

Gervonta Davis shares his thoughts on boxers’ mental health

In conversation, the reporter mentioned Garcia’s struggles with mental health. While also emphasizing Davis’ previous comment about the same. Notably, he had stated that he fights his mental health struggles by ‘putting the pain’ on Garcia.

Davis responded by saying, “You never heard of nobody. No back-in-the-day fighters talk about mental health. I think boxing, people are probably, we need mental health out there. Because you are getting in the ring and fighting. The toughest out there, the whole lot.”

He further added, “People just throwing that. And saying that just to, you know, get out of stuff. Like an excuse. To be honest, we all have mental health.”

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Davis also mentioned that boxing involves keeping oneself in control mentally.

Ryan Garcia responds to Davis’ statements

There is no denying that Davis’ remarks did not sit well with Garcia. In fact, he took to social media with a response for the same.

Garcia took a dig at Davis and accused him of being unable to articulate properly. Moreover, he mentioned that he has fought over 200 fights and that he would have given up sooner if he was scared to take up fights.

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