“I was surprised by his ability to take a punch. I got him clean in the first round, but he just ate all those punches. So in the first and second rounds I thought that he would be shocked in the third, but then Duarte started to press more and more and I thought that I need to somehow interrupt his momentum,” Pro Box TV quotes Garcia.
Let us remember that on the night of December 3, Garcia stopped Duarte in the eighth round.