Elijah Garcia: I Want To Be a Mandatory For a Title Pretty Soon

T-Cellular Enviornment, Las Vegas – Rising middleweight sensation Elijah Garcia (16-0, 13 KOs) emerged victorious through eighth-round TKO in an electrifying firefight in opposition to Armando Resendiz (14-2, 10 KOs).

“It was a very onerous combat,” mentioned the 20-year-old Garcia. “Reséndiz is sweet individuals. He was actually robust. I want him the perfect. This was 100% my hardest combat thus far. I left all the pieces I may within the ring.”

“I ought to have listened to my nook much more,” mentioned Reséndiz. “Perhaps I acquired too distracted, however Elijah was the higher fighter and I’ve to just accept that.”

The back-and-forth motion started heating up in spherical two as each males unloaded heavy pictures. Halfway by the spherical, Reséndiz appeared to buckle Garcia with a sequence of unanswered proper palms, earlier than Garcia rallied to lend a number of energy pictures of his personal to shut out the body.

The competition remained nip and tuck by the early rounds, till Garcia adjusted his sample of motion in spherical 5 to maintain himself from squaring as much as a circling Reséndiz. This gave Garcia ample area to land energy left palms, which buoyed his spectacular 46% join charge on energy punches. General, Garcia held a 165 to 102 edge in energy punches landed.

“I countered to the physique and got here as much as the pinnacle,” mentioned Garcia. “I hadn’t doubled up on my hook. I noticed that he was harm. I do what I do. I completed. I knew he was harm on the ropes. I used to be hitting him with some actually onerous punches. He was actually robust, however I completed him off.” 

Garcia’s changes proved fruitful early in spherical eight as he related on a blistering counter proper hand that wobbled Reséndiz and despatched him to the mat. Though he was capable of get to his toes, Garcia gave him little room to breathe and adopted up with a sequence of hooks that pressured referee Tony Weeks to name off the combat 1:23 into the eighth.

“In addition to listening extra to my nook, I wish to redeem myself and provides it my all as soon as once more quickly,” mentioned Reséndiz. “I wish to apologize to my followers, however I promise I’ll come again stronger.” 

“I need to be a compulsory for a title fairly quickly,” mentioned Garcia. “I will be 21 in April and I am gonna preserve taking it one step at a time. I realized loads on this combat. I nonetheless let him management the combat an excessive amount of.”