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Speaker 2: From high above Tea Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The

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Speaker 2: Morning Combat Instant Analysis is here for all things Davonte

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Speaker 2: Tank Davis versus King Ryan Garcia. It's late night Saturday,

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Speaker 2: it might even be Sunday where you are. Thank you

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Speaker 2: for joining me. My name is Brian Campbell. Of course that

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Speaker 2: BBC with that bde babe. No Luke Thomas this week

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Speaker 2: he's on vacation, but quick reminder he is coming back

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Speaker 2: with a bang Monday morning, eleven am Eastern when him

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Speaker 2: and I take Morning Combat back live on the YouTube's

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Speaker 2: there to break down all things this fight right here

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Speaker 2: on Showtime pay per view, and of course you UFC

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Speaker 2: in beltzor.

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Speaker 1: From over the weekend.

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Speaker 2: Apparently some people believe in spoiler alerts and instant analysis shows.

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Speaker 1: So here's your wake up call.

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Speaker 2: If you didn't watch the fight and don't know who

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Speaker 2: don't want to know who wins yet you logged into

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Speaker 2: this YouTube stream anyway, you got a lot more problems

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Speaker 2: than spoilers, But I love you anyway. I'm happy to

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Speaker 2: break this down a seventh round knockout, which, oh, by

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Speaker 2: the way, what he predicted for Gervante Tank Davis in

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Speaker 2: the battle of two young, unbeaten, popular superstars.

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Speaker 1: Would this produce the next face in boxing?

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Speaker 2: Well, Tank Davis said it himself before the fight, he

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Speaker 2: set it himself in the ring afterwards. I am that guy.

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Speaker 2: I am the face of boxing and he just might be.

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Speaker 2: Maybe not the numbers yet of a Canelo Alvarez or

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Speaker 2: those big heavyweights in the UK when they match up

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Speaker 2: against each other, But this is examly you know, I'll

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Speaker 2: Dennis Green you. Tank Davis is who we thought he was,

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Speaker 2: a power punching pound four pound, skilled technical boxer who

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Speaker 2: can wait, pick you apart, make sure wait for that

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Speaker 2: mistake and get you the heck out of there. Knockdowns

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Speaker 2: in round two and then seven, leading to the finish

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Speaker 2: as Tank Davis lands the first defeat on the record

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Speaker 2: of twenty four year old Ryan Garcia.

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Speaker 1: Look, this was a fun fight week, a fun build.

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Speaker 2: Shoutout to Ariel Hawani, Kate Abdo, who I had the

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Speaker 2: pleasure of doing way in coverage. Stephen Jackson joined us

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Speaker 2: at Thursday's press conference, and of course Kate and Ariel

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Speaker 1: But this was a fun week to be a part of.

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Speaker 2: The fight didn't necessarily turn into the back and forth

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Speaker 2: affair that some had hoped, you know, with both fighters

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Speaker 2: trading knockdowns. But I am gonna give credit, of course

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Speaker 2: for Ryan Garcia for being game for coming to fight

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Speaker 2: for in the second round after a tense, non eventful

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Speaker 2: first round. It was the knockdown that turned the fight.

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Speaker 2: But let's give Ryan Garcia attempts for what he was

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Speaker 2: trying to do. He came out aggressive with that right hand,

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Speaker 1: He landed w't clean one on Tank. And then what

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Speaker 2: About Garcia, who is the bigger fighter, actually tried to

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Speaker 2: especially one who's smaller than you. But this is Tank Davis,

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Speaker 2: who we harp for right reasons to say, look, you

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Speaker 2: can come for the knockouts, but it's not the knockouts

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Speaker 1: It's everything else that sets up the knockouts.

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Speaker 2: Tank Davis knew you have a confident Ryan Garcia in

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Speaker 2: openings were there. Ryan led with a big, sweeping left hook,

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Speaker 2: But he kept his chin out, did not recover, did

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Speaker 2: you saw Tank almost level change like an MMA and

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Speaker 2: I think we predicted this coming in, that he would

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Speaker 2: enough from a CompuBox standpoint of how little chank throws.

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Speaker 1: But obviously it's the accuracy.

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Speaker 2: It's the fact that he waits for you to make

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Speaker 2: this is really where Tank won it. In rounds three, four,

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Speaker 2: What do you do against a fighter? Potentially we can

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Speaker 1: You go to the body and you slow them down.

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Speaker 2: While doing that, Tank completely took away Ryan's job, and

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Speaker 2: he did it, of course by being quicker on the counter.

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Speaker 2: You saw somewhat of a rattled Ryan Garcia in rounds three, four,

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Speaker 2: like he did against Luke Campbell. He was here and

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Speaker 2: Ryan did have one nice comeback round in round six.

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Speaker 1: But round seven is where Tank.

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Speaker 2: Put it away and you saw, you know, there's some

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Speaker 2: They were both humble afterwards, which I liked, and Ryan

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Speaker 2: asking me BC point plank. Could he have gotten up?

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Speaker 2: Should he have gotten up? Look, look, you know I'm

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Speaker 2: oh yeah, I would have. We don't know, we don't

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Speaker 2: Bernard Hopkins that was a middleweight undisputed championship out first

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Speaker 2: whatever it's worth, heavy slander on the boxing message boards

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Speaker 2: in the pre Twitter era. In this case, only Ryan

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Speaker 2: Garcia knows that, but it did look like the perfect

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Speaker 2: the hint of danger. Ryan Garcia did land here and there,

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Speaker 2: a few a few nice power shots. I thought he'd

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Speaker 2: There were times that he was aggressive, he was sitting

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Speaker 2: He's going to be in one forty moving forward junior

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Speaker 1: Between them was real.

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Speaker 2: So if you want to say the power was the

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Speaker 2: It was really the gap in IQ experience. Tank said

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Speaker 2: Joe Goosen era of Ryan Garcia. There was a lot

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Speaker 2: natural gap between them and just you know, basic technical skill,

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Speaker 2: it's not the same. And I think Tank is on

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Speaker 2: what are you doing? Tank Davis is showing you against

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Speaker 2: all different kinds of opponents across multiple weight classes. I

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Speaker 2: But now that he's doing that, he's showing you.

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