De La Hoya: Ryan Garcia ‘became a man tonight’

Photo by Tom Hogan/Golden Boy/Getty Images Ryan Garcia picked up the biggest win of his career, with the popular 22-year-old beating Luke Campbell and establishing himself as a true contender at 135 lbs. He stopped Campbell with a 7th-round body shot, but what’s more impressive is that Garcia had to survive a knockdown earlier as well.

Promoter Oscar De La Hoya gave him an “A+” grade for the win, and said that Garcia is finally a “man” now.

“It was like a flash knockdown, right? But it was a scary flash knockdown,” De La Hoya told Fight Hub. “And he became a man, that’s all there is to it. He became a man tonight. He needed this fight for validation. He needed this fight to prove to the…