Ryan Garcia wanted to deliver a highlight-reel knockout and he did just that on Saturday night at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, Calif., and live on DAZN.
After dropping Fortuna in the fourth and fifth rounds, "King Ry" unloaded an electrifying left-right-left combination to drop Javier Fortuna to one knee in the sixth. Out came the mouthpiece seconds later and Garcia's knockout victory was complete.
Garcia asserted himself from the opening bell with a crisp jab. That jab quickly led to piercing combinations.
The 23-year-old scored his first of three knockdowns on the night during the fourth round, when he blasted Fortuna to the body with a left hook that made the rugged Dominican fighter take a knee. In the fifth, Garcia detonated a scraping left hook across the jaw that seemingly knocked the wind out of Fortuna for a second knockdown.
Those punches paved the way for Garcia to blast Fortuna with a splintering left-right-left combination that ended with a left hook to the temple to secure the victory.
Just as he's done in past fights, Garcia (23-0, 19 KOs) used his postight victory to call out Gervonta "Tank" Davis.
"I'm not going back down to 135 (pounds) for nothing but I will fight 'Tank' next," Garcia told DAZN's Chris Mannix in the ring.
"If 'Tank' wants that at 140 ... hey, I'm going to record all the negotiations so you guys don't make no headlines saying I'm ducking. If (Davis) wants it, let's get it.
"That (fight) is going to give me the respect I deserve," he added.
"I'm never afraid. I'm trying to tell you that I have the spirit of competition in me and you're going to see that when I fight 'Tank' and whoop his a—s."
When asked how the fight can be made considering he's with Golden Boy and Davis fights under the PBC promotional banner, Garcia offered: "Where there's a will, there's a way."
Davis seemingly responded by tweeting:
Here's how the entire Ryan Garcia vs. Javier Fortuna main card went down.