Analyst Sergio Mora defended promoter Oscar De La Hoya in response to struggling fighter Ryan Garcia\u2019s social media attacks on him this week. Earlier this week, De La Hoya had told Ryan during an interview on the AH Show that he needed to \u201cwake up\u201d and \u201cgrow up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Garcia responded by posting,\u00a0\u201cF** Golden Boy.\u201d<\/p>\n
De La Hoya\u2019s Tough Love<\/p>\n
The former six-division world champion De La Hoya\u2019s comments were meant to get Garcia to take his career seriously, as he\u2019s going downhill. As Mora points out, Ryan\u2019s record is 1-2-1 in his last four fights, and he hasn\u2019t fought since his upset 12-round unanimous decision defeat against Rolando \u2018Rolly\u2019 Romero on May 2, 2025, in New York.<\/p>\n
\u201cRyan Garcia lost to Rolly Romero in a fight he wasn\u2019t supposed to lose. He\u2019s 1-2-1 in his last four fights,\u201d said analyst Sergio Mora to DAZN Boxing<\/a> about Ryan Garcia not panning out. \u201cHe\u2019s not a winner right now. He\u2019s not even won a championship.<\/p>\n Living Room Workouts<\/p>\n Instead of Garcia in the gym, looking to get ready for another fight in 2025, he\u2019s been posting training videos of himself working out in his living room. This has drawn comparisons between him and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., who did the same thing when his career began to collapse in September 2012.<\/p>\n \u201cOscar De La Hoya, yeah, he has a lot of skeletons in his closet. Why do you [Ryan] need to keep bringing that up? You haven\u2019t amounted to anything that man has amounted to in boxing. Until you pick up your first strap, let alone six or seven divisions that Oscar did, then you should stay quiet, work hard in the gym, and get back to where you belong. That\u2019s the top spot.\u201d<\/p>\n The Hard Reality<\/p>\n The problem is, Garcia doesn\u2019t \u201cbelong at the top spot.\u201d Other than his upset 12-round majority decision win over Devin Haney on April 20, 2024, he\u2019s never shown that he belongs among the best. Now, with him reduced to becoming a living room-trained fighter, it doesn\u2019t appear he\u2019s going anywhere in the sport.<\/p>\n Garcia doesn\u2019t possess the talent of 1992 Olympic gold medalist and former six-division world champion De La Hoya. He never will. The vast sums of money Kingry has made during his short career \u2014$50 million \u2014are like an anchor, stifling the hunger he needs to improve.<\/p>\n Ryan\u2019s contract with Golden Boy Promotions is believed to be up in 2026. At this point, it may not matter much to De La Hoya that he\u2019ll be losing Garcia. He\u2019s turned into a YouTuber-type of fighter. He doesn\u2019t appear capable of beating any of the top fighters at 147, and it\u2019s the same situation at 140.<\/p>\n While Ryan is useful for bringing in fans due to his many social media followers, his performance against Rolly and loss to Gervonta Davis show that he lacks the talent to be a world champion.<\/p>\n \u201cRyan Garcia is a top fighter, but right now, he\u2019s going in the wrong direction and not winning,\u201d said Mora.<\/p>\n Tom Galm has covered the global boxing scene since 2014, specializing in heavyweight analysis, business trends, and fighter psychology.<\/p>\n Boxing News 24<\/a> \u00bb – An Analyst’s Perspective<\/a> \u00bb \u201cHe Needs to Grow Up\u201d: Sergio Mora Backs De La Hoya as Ryan Garcia\u2019s Career Spirals After Rolly Romero Loss<\/p>\n Last Updated on 10\/24\/2025 \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Analyst Sergio Mora defended promoter Oscar De La Hoya in response to struggling fighter Ryan Garcia\u2019s social media…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-238172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}