By Sean Jones: Ryan Garcia and his promoter Oscar De La Hoya say they’ve seen a contract to Isaac Cruz that they want him to hurry up and sign.
Cruz’s criticism of Ryan seems to have hit home, as he’s upset at being called an “Instagram” fighter and he wants to show the fans that he’s not just someone using the sport to increase his subscribers on social media.
If a contract has truly been sent to the former world title challenger Cruz, there seems to be a real hurry on Golden Boy boss De La Hoya and Ryan’s part for him to quickly sign for some reason.
After a year of showing no interest in fighting, former WBC interim lightweight champion Ryan is hounding ‘Pitbull’ Cruz something fierce, which is a little suspicious of the motives.
Pitbull sees Ryan as just focused on driving his Instagram and YouTube sites to increase his subscribers.
As of today, Ryan has 8.8 million followers on Instagram and 1.3 million subscribers on his YouTube channel. When you have that kind of following on social media, you’re making bank, so it makes sense for Ryan to call out top fighters.
Even if Ryan never fights any of them, just mentioning them will increase his followers, making him even more popular.
Ryan Garcia wants to silence the noise
We haven’t heard from the management for ‘Pitbull’ Cruz (22-2-1, 15 KOs) to verify that a contract has actually been sent because this could an a grandstanding move on the 23-year-old ‘King Ry’ Garcia (21-0, 18 KOs.
In other words, to get some cheap publicity without any true intent in taking on the dangerous Mexican warrior
Come Isaac Cruz, you said I have Glass chin, that all I focus is on Ig, you’ll find out what I’m made of once you sign that contract tired of reading your interviews when you have a contract waiting for you.
— RYAN GARCIA (@RyanGarcia) January 4, 2022
It doesn’t matter if Pitbull Cruz signs for the fight with Ryan because King Ry has been totally unreliable since last year. TWICE, Ryan was signed for fights and pulled out of them.
If you’re Ryan, it would be better for him to keep it on the down low once he signs for a fight due to his poor track record in making it to the ring.
King Ry’s goal: 25-0
The fight against Isaac Cruz makes sense for Ryan, as it gives him the opportunity to let boxing fans compare his performance against Pitbull to that of Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis, who struggled to beat him last December.
If Ryan beats Cruz in a more impressive manner than Tank did, the casual boxing fans will conclude that King Ry would beat him.
The reality is that a win for Ryan over Pitbull Cruz won’t mean anything other than he could beat an undersized lightweight with two losses already on his record.
“Putting my head down and getting the Job done in 2022,” said Ryan. “I’m ready to push forward. Silence the noise and be who I am. 25-0 that’s the goal. The first step is to get Isaac Cruz to fight and to stop wasting time. Coming from a guy that says he’ll fight me on my patio he sure takes long,” said Ryan.
