“I like him a lot. I think Ryan is an awesome fighter. The problem with Ryan is he’s got a left hook that is a killer, but everybody knows that. So until he gets something else to disguise the left hook, something else to make people worry about, he’s going to have a hard time. With the upper echelon fighters. The regular fighters, he’ll kill. If he hits you with his left hook, it’s over with. But the guys that know not to get hit with the left hook like Tank did, they’re going to be a problem until he gets more put in his arsenal,” Jones said 

Outside of that, Garcia needs help to make the big fights. He was linked with the Devin Haney fight only to pull out of talks. Garcia decided to go after Rolando Romero. Garcia described it as the best business move given that it was seen as a chance to get a bigger purse and a world title and then set up the Haney unification.

Those plans were scuppered when the Romero fight broke down. Oscar De La Hoya stated Romero priced himself out, while Rolly hit back to claim Garcia’s team never wanted the fight as they were going behind his back to get someone else.

Romero on Garcia

“F— Princess Ryan Garcia, f— Oscar De La Fishnets, and f— DAZN, the s—tiest streaming network out there, for wasting my time and more important wasting the entire boxing world’s time. It’s disgusting to see how you guys do business, then trying to go behind my back offering [Isaac Cruz] an offer, then claiming I [priced myself out]. Y’all f—ed up. Now it’s Rolly vs Pitbull on Amazon Prime, the largest network in boxing history. This fight is an explosion,” Romero said 

De La Hoya also suggested that a fight with Jose Ramirez was close, only for Garcia to tell his promoter that he was uninterested in the bout. So, moving forward, Garcia must resolve his issues inside and outside the ring.