Shouldn’t these guys be training for a fight?
Why are they fighting at the club a couple of months before they are both scheduled to be back in the right with each other or someone else?
Here are the details via TMZ Sports.
Ryan Garcia and Gervonta “Tank” Davis were apparently close to fighting recently — but, it wasn’t inside of the ring … it was at a nightclub, where Garcia says the two boxers got into a heated altercation.
Garcia explained the situation on an Instagram Live stream on Wednesday … saying he and his friend approached Tank’s table at a club and asked the 27-0 boxer when they were going finally set up a fight.
“I guess he got offended by that,” Garcia said of Davis. “Got all worked up.”
Garcia says Tank grabbed onto his chain … but, thankfully, the star fighter claims to have kept his cool.
“There’s so many security guards there,” Garcia said. “I knew he wasn’t gonna take my chain or do anything really. He just wanted to seem tough.”
Garcia says Tank eventually let go of his chain … but they continued to exchange words.
“Outside the ring, you can act tough all you want,” Garcia said. “Inside the ring, it all changes. I’m not with the acting tough. I’m tough only when I need to be.”
Tank said Al Haymon told him to chill because Ryan ran to his lawyers after the altercation.
Davis is supposed to stand trial on his hit-and-run case that could stop the fight from happening in December.
A judge rejected a plea offer extended by prosecutors to Baltimore boxing champion Gervonta Davis that would have allowed him to avoid jail time for a 2020 hit-and-run crash in downtown Baltimore.
Davis, 27, is now set for a two-day trial starting December 12. The West Baltimore native, who has a perfect 27-0 boxing record with 25 knockouts, hinted on Instagram earlier this month that he planned to return to the ring in December.
Davis had accepted a deal that called for a one-year suspended sentence with two months of home confinement and work release, for charges of leaving the scene of an accident involving injury and damage to property, driving on a revoked license and running a red light.
But one of the victims of the crash, Jyair Smith, told Judge Melissa Phinn that she had suffered serious injuries and thought the plea deal was unfair. Smith was pregnant at the time of the crash, and said she looked Davis in the eyes and asked him for help before he fled. She said she suffered a serious knee injury and other complications.
“I don’t think this is acceptable either,” Phinn said. “The court will not accept it.”
Flip the page for Ryan talking about the incident and Tank’s response.