Oscar de la Hoya says he wants Ryan Garcia to take the rest of 2025 after his loss of Rolando ‘Rolly’ Romero on May 2. Golden Boy promoter de la hoya wants Garcia (24-2, 20 COs) to heal his injuries and get “His mind straight“Before returning in 2026.
Inactivity: A risk to Garcia?
The problem with Garcia, 26, who took the rest of the year off, is that he has been out of action for 13 months when he fought Rolly. He was suspended by the New York State Athletic Commission for a year for testing positive for a Ped after his victory over Devin Haney on April 20, 2024.
Taking another year off would not be a good step for a young fighter like Garcia. He will have missed too much action for him to regain the form he had earlier. However, if Ryan’s focus is only on money fights, it will not harm him to sit until 2026.
The way Garcia acted against Romero goes off his career, whether he remains active. Ryan is not going to beat the top fighters at 140 or 147 as he did Romero. If Garcia does choose to fight again this year, he must take a trust builder next.
“I would like Ryan (Garcia) to take all year off, get his mind right, make it comfortable where it feels good,” Oscar de la Hoya said Sean Zittel About the will for Ryan Garcia to decline the rest of 2025 after his loss of Rolando ‘Rolly’ Romero on May 2.
Overwrite defeat: Garcia’s need
Staying out of the ring for another year would be bad for Garcia. He would have a lot of time to Stef on his defeat To play Rolly, play it in his mind daily and be tortured by the memories. It would be better for Garcia to come back and win a win so he could rewrite the defeat in his mind. If a fighter fails, the worst thing they can do is sit inactive for a long period.
“There is nothing lost for him. He has injuries, and he has to fix those, ‘says De la Hoya. “But I think even more importantly, he has to get his life in order, because I’m pretty sure, because I lived it, that everyone left him left and right, including family, drag.”
There is something “lost” for Garcia by putting inactive the rest of this year. His confidence will remain low, and he may never regain what he has lost from all the inactivity. If he had a long career like Terence Crawford, it wouldn’t hurt him to be inactive.
“There is nothing wrong with that, but you have to be able to take a deep breath, step back and reconsider your life and put it back in order. This is my opinion. I hope he is declining that year, ‘says De la Hoya about Garcia.
Of the Hoya’s Past vs. Garcia’s
It’s easy for De la Hoya to say that Garcia is declining for the rest of the year. This is not his career. We know that Oscar did not do it when he was Ryan’s age. When he was 26He fought these three fighters in 1999:
Ike Quartey
Oba Carr
Felix Trinidad
“I mean, I would hate he was the seventh fighter to be beaten,” De la Hoya said when asked if he wanted Ryan Garcia to participate with coach Eddy Reynoso.
Last updated on 05/30/2025
