The way in which Dana White sees it, Ryan Garcia can be sticking round with boxing for some extra time. In fact, at the moment, he’s serving a one-year suspension for failing to clear the drug checks for the Devin Haney struggle. In fact, he has been expelled by the WBC. However that doesn’t imply the younger boxer can’t attempt his luck on every other platform other than the squared circle. For starters, followers would possibly as properly recall his on-line spat and name out with ‘Suga’ Sean O’Malley.
Two months in the past, Garcia, in a put up, hinted at a transfer to affix the UFC. A number of weeks in the past, clips of the younger boxer attempting his hand grappling attracted appreciable consideration. Given his youth, expertise, and experience in a putting fight sport like boxing and maybe some basic-level understanding of ground-fighting methods, Ryan Garcia may have some probability. nonetheless, doesn’t appear to imagine so. In an intensive interview, the UFC President shared his ideas on a number of points.
UFC: We’ll move for now, thanks Ryan Garcia.
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Some half-an-hour after the dialogue began, one of many hosts at ‘Full Ship Podcast’ requested Dana White, “Within the UFC may very well be a bit totally different now… like, what about Ryan Garcia? I do know he’s been saying he desires to struggle within the UFC, not a boxing match.”
Ryan Garcia’s UFC desires simply received crushed—how do you are feeling about it?
Dana White replied curtly, “Ryan can’t struggle wherever proper now; he’s beneath suspension. You already know what I imply. I don’t know what the state of affairs is. What we do within the UFC is the most effective on this planet. Combat the most effective. That’s what we do, you already know.”
The reply adopted Dana White speaking about Jake Paul. Given how Jake Paul referred to as UFC champion Alex Pereira, one of many hosts on the ‘podcast requested White whether or not UFC would ever think about roping in Jake Paul or every other influencer fight sports activities fighter in its roster. The Manchester, Connecticut-born fight sport entrepreneur refuted, asserting that’s not how UFC conducts its enterprise.
It was in June that Ryan Garcia proclaimed, “I’m headed to the UFC.” Later, in one other put up, he added, “I’m excited for my first struggle within the UFC.” Nonetheless, given what Dana White mentioned, that just about sums up the UFC’s stand on his probabilities in the interim.
That mentioned, any hopes for ‘KingRy’?
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Now, as a lot because it’s about White’s views on Garcia’s probabilities of preventing a blended martial struggle within the UFC, the larger query stays whether or not the younger boxer has the wherewithal to take part in a self-discipline that’s closest to an actual struggle. Reportedly, mild heavyweight fighter Khalil Rountree sounded fairly optimistic about Ryan Garcia’s probability within the octagon.
Talking with ‘GiveMeSport,’ he even prompt some tune-ups for the younger boxer to raise his sport. “I feel including kicks and takedowns… it’s one other ingredient. When you will have a high-level boxer, and so they’ve been doing this and so they know how you can struggle, their instincts are reactive to boxing. Anyone who’s a high-level boxer has a good probability within the UFC,” mentioned Rountree.
There are cases of fighters who began their journey in fight sports activities as boxers. However ultimately they transitioned to blended martial arts. So strict on paper, Ryan Garcia, if he desires to make such a profession change, then he can do it. However the reality stays that it could be simpler mentioned than completed. It wants a sure stage of experience to face the high-caliber fighters UFC brings out. To succeed in their stage, it would take him two-three years, even when he decides to commit himself totally to MMA.
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However who can deny the form of optics it would convey to the UFC in the event that they soak up a famous person like Ryan Garcia?