Two-division world champion Danny “Swift Garcia dominated in his super welterweight debut Saturday night, cruising to a majority decision victory over exciting contender Jose Benavidez Jr. in the SHOWTIME main event from Barclays Center in Brooklyn headlining a Premier Boxing Champions event. He saved perhaps his most expressive moment post-fight when he broke down in the ring discussing his struggles with mental health with SHOWTIME reporter Jim Gray, showing the authenticity that has made him such a fan-favorite in Brooklyn.
“I did take a break going through mental things, things went dark, I went through anxiety, deep depression, just trying to be strong,” said a visibly emotional Garcia. “It was the pressure of life, being a good dad, just letting it out right now, because it was all stuck inside. It rained on me for a year and a half and the only way to do better was to fight again. I’m a fighter. If you battle anxiety and depression, you can get out of it, that’s what I did today. I fought.”
Philadelphia’s Garcia (37-3, 21 KOs) has become a staple at Barclays Center ever since headlining the arena’s first boxing event in 2012, and his return on Saturday night against Benavidez (27-2-1, 18 KOs), saw him pick up his seventh victory in Brooklyn.
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40 Comments
That look at the end from Garcia dad says a lot.
Benavides is a fool! He got very good skills but he lets the macho man attitude take over the show Danny has more sense and also a great technique I’m against a father son team because it harms the fighter to have his dad involved in thrash talking and I’ve never seen a real professional trainer act like clown like Danny’s dad or Tío’ lopes dad I think out all the dad’s the Benavides dad is the most down to earth and going back to the trainer the only one that was not a clown but an asshole was Dan Duva!
Benavidez should have won this.
The Benavidez bros are like the diaz bros in the UFC. Jose used to give Pacquiao all he could handle at 17 years old , David would give ggg all he could handle at 15. So they are suppressed by the industry.
Good ass fight!! 🔥🔥
No lastimó a Danny García que es un peso más bajo y quiere al canelo porfavor
Jose be stopping when he hurts them wth 😔 y
How Danny winn😂😂😂
Pah pah pah !!!! José is childich fighter
Garcia is so stiff looks like a karate kid
Jose benavidez got robbed smh 🤦
WTF I'm Puerto Rican and even I have a problem believing that Danny won that
what a nasty mara's look and attitutde on the part of the ha, ha ha, ….
Benavidez still look damaged fro the gunshot to his leg, his balance is a bit off and sometime looks like he is dragging his injured leg.
The only thing I was disappointed was that onlyfans t-shirt
Benavidez is done
They both suck
Lol swift boxing now that something new that left hook he throws one of the best in the business .
Pa pa pa pa! Parapapapaaaaa
He fought the wrong benavidez 😂😂😂
Robbery
Jose Benavidez, wasted and forgotten talent. After the incident, he lose all his tools to become great again. He used to spar bigger names back then at age of 16. 😔
Man fight was rigged Jose was on his ass
I don’t know about that decision
The fact that I’m jus now seeing this like it’s new 😢
pa pa papa pa pa pa pa
So Danny Garcia is an Only Fans ambassador, lol… good fight
Yo no vi en ningún momento ganador a García….
Quienes son lis bocones? Q hasta peleando no se cayan. 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷
Cómo baja las manos canelo le arranca la cabeza ojalá se dé
Bum a** fight 😂
Id like to see this again
The shittiest highlights from a fight I’ve ever seen,it was like a one sided spar put up on someone’s instagram for Benavidez, both fought great, just the person who selected these must be from Phoenix
Danny slow
Never seen this fight just looked at the highlights and thought damn they robbed benavidez 🤣🤣
Highlights were too short
These highlights are super pro benavidez. Danny controlled almost every round in this fight. Stupid highlights.
His knee remember? He would’ve probably beaten Danny if his knee was good.
They gotta run that one back
Damn what a great fight