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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4304244, member: 289"]
Ryan Garcia never looked better than tonight. There was no showmanship or bragging. He was dead serious and intimidated Fortuna with his jab and combinations. When Javier's hands went up, Garcia had the smarts to go to the body and dropped Javier in the fourth. Fortuna bought time by intentionally spitting out his mouthpiece, which then had to be cleaned, and then made a show of lowering his arms and daring Garcia to hit him in the chin while constantly backing away so he couldn't. that got him to the end of the round but Garcia again downed him in the 5th with a shot that seemed to injure Fortuna's face, (another orbital bone?) and Fortuna's desire to do anything to win the fight vanished. He did come out for the 6th round but went down again and again spit out the mouthpiece, this time in surrender and the ref waived the fight over.

the commentators had some complaint that Garcia didn't have much upper body movement and Fortuna was able to get in a couple of shots and force Ryan to take a step a back but when you are on the attack against a small guy, you aren't going to do a lot of zigging and zagging. Garcia looked like Alexis Arguello in this fight, except he wasn't a thin man. He had a welterweight's size and body, with broad shoulders and surely his future belongs in that division, not against lightweights, (Fortuna was the WBA 'super feather' = junior light champ in 2015-16 and had lost in several alphabet soup lightweight title shots since). He wants to fight Tank Davis, an old amateur rival but the 5-5 1/2 Davis is smaller than the 5-6 1/2 Fortuna. Garcia is 5-10.
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