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ESPN Boxing Insider- Mike Coppinger has covered boxing since 2010 with roles at USA Today, Ring Magazine and The Athletic before he joined ESPN in 2021. You can follow him on Twitter: @MikeCoppinger
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ESPN Staff Writer- Ben Baby covers the Cincinnati Bengals for ESPN. He joined the company in July 2019. Prior to ESPN, he worked for various newspapers in Texas, most recently at The Dallas Morning News where he covered college sports.
He provides daily coverage of the Bengals for ESPN.com, while making appearances on SportsCenter, ESPN's NFL shows and ESPN Radio programs.
A native of Grapevine, Texas, he graduated from the University of North Texas with a bachelor's degree in journalism. He is an adjunct journalism professor at Southern Methodist University and a member of the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA).
LAS VEGAS -- Ryan Garcia took a beat, then dropped to one knee, the delayed effect of a stinging liver shot from Gervonta "Tank" Davis that floored Garcia for the second time in their super fight on Saturday, and this time, he didn't beat the count.
The referee reached the count of 10 at 1:44 of Round 7 before 20,842 at the sold-out T-Mobile Arena, an anticlimactic but conclusive finish to boxing's most-anticipated matchup in years.
"I couldn't breathe," said Garcia, 24. "I was going to get back up, but I just couldn't get up. ... He just caught me with a good shot - I don't want to make no excuses in here - ... and I just couldn't recover. ... He caught me with a good body shot, snuck under me and caught me good."
And with that single left hand, Davis cemented himself as one of boxing's pound-for-pound best fighters, if not one of the sport's singular biggest stars in a 136-pound catchweight fight that was preceded by months of trash talk and hype.
"I am the face of boxing," Davis said afterward.
Full recap from Mike Coppinger
Here's how Mike Coppinger and Ben Baby saw the action in Las Vegas: