An eye-watering pay-per-view price has been asked of American boxing fans who want to watch Gervonta Davies take on Ryan Garcia on April 22. The mega fight is priced at £69.23 ($84.99) for American punters – less than the anticipated £81.46 ($100) anticipated.
American fans paid a $100 price tag for Floyd Mayweather Jr against Conor McGregor and Manny Pacquiao and will again fork out for what is expected to be one of the biggest fights this year. Davis has held world championship belts in the lightweight, super featherweight and super lightweight weight divisions and has a record of 28-0.
His last win came against Hector Garcia in January in defence of his WBA (Regular) lightweight belt. Meanwhile, younger fighter Garcia is ranked the world’s sixth-best active lightweight by The Ring Magazine with an unbeaten record of 23-0.
The pair will meet at 136-pound catchweight in what is expected to be the biggest test in both their budding careers. Garcia slammed his opponent at their pre-fight press conference after Davies ‘the Tank’ turned up almost two hours late.
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“Look at how he represents himself, he’s not even here,” he said to the Showtime broadcast before taking to the stage. “It’s been over an hour. It’s unprofessional.” The pair then went face-to-face slating each other with Garcia stating: “Somebody has got to promote this I was here on time, wasn’t I?”
Davis responded: “You’re supposed to be like that.” However, after the press conference was over the southpaw apologised for his late arrival. He added: “I’m sorry about that. I haven’t even been asleep, I’ve been running around all day.” Davies later blamed bad traffic for being one hour and 50 minutes late for the press conference.
It hasn’t just been Garcia who Davies has annoyed ahead of the showdown after splitting from former adviser Floyd Mayweather and accusing the boxing great of banning him from the Mayweather gym. During a spat on Twitter, Garcia tweeted to Davis: “You always act like you got some info. Shut your a** up already. You basically are just a shaderoom [gossip] page, relax. I heard some stuff about you as well.”
Davis replied in a since-deleted tweet: “What? That Floyd’s petty ass said I couldn’t use his gym anymore. I don’t give a f***! Nah, it’s not what I heard, it’s what I know, chump!” Davies goes into the bout as favourite but risks his reputation being damaged by a dangerous Garcia on April 22.
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