Duarte: “Garcia’s speed didn’t surprise me”

Mexican super lightweight boxer Oscar Duarte commented on the early defeat from the American Ryan Garcia in the main event of the boxing evening held on December 2 in Houston.

“His speed didn’t surprise me. He just caught me with a great punch right on the chin. I adapted to his style, but in the end he managed to catch me. That's all. I tried to hit him with a right hand, but in the end I missed it myself and ended up on the canvas. I tried to get up, but it was all over,” Duarte was quoted as saying by Boxing Scene.

Let us remember that Garcia knocked out Duarte in the eighth round.