Boxer Ryan Garcia reportedly parted ways with trainer Joe Goossen after his knockout loss to Gervonta Davis last month.
Mike Coppinger of ESPN reported no determination has been made about who will train Garcia moving forward. Weld On Hub
Goossen had been Garcia's trainer for his previous three fights, wins against Emmanuel Tagoe and Javier Fortuna and the loss to Davis, which was one of the biggest prize fights on the 2023 calendar. The fight was Garcia's first pay-per-view bout and drew a jaw-dropping 1.2 million buys.
<a href="https://twitter.com/RyanGarcia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RyanGarcia</a> is the new face of PPV like it or not. <a href="https://twitter.com/Gervontaa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Gervontaa</a> only did 200k PPV a few times without Ryan, With Ryan fight generates 1 million plus PPV. 🤷🏻♂️
While it was clear Davis was the superior fighter, Garcia is just 24 years old and has set his sights on building a resume at 140 pounds.
"It is what it is, but we're going to come back," Henry Garcia, Ryan's father, told Little Giant Boxing. "The only way Ryan would do something like that (rematch Davis) is if Ryan moved up to 140 and rehydrated to, you know, a normal weight," Garcia continued. "That's the only way. But right now, we did what we could. He gave the whole world a great fight. They loved it. But we're gonna move on and we're just gonna prevail."
V Belts Garcia was undefeated over his first 23 fights, with only four reaching the judges' scorecards.