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Garcia vs Campbell: Pros react to Ryan Garcia’s knockout win over Luke Campbell

Ryan Garcia answered a lot of questions with his win over Luke Campbell, and the boxing world is responding.

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Maybe Ryan Garcia didn’t answer every question with today’s knockout win over Luke Campbell in Dallas, but it’s hard to say he didn’t answer a fair amount of them, and at the very least, it’s probably time to stop writing him off as an “Instagram boxer” or some sort of total fraud.

Garcia (21-0, 18 KO) came off the canvas in the second round to roar back and end the night in the seventh, finishing Campbell (20-4, 16 KO) with a wicked liver shot that put Campbell down for the count.

Boxing Twitter was highly engaged with this one on both sides of the pond. The Brits, of course, were rooting hard for the 33-year-old Campbell to win, and so were many Americans, to be fair, as the 22-year-old Garcia is a star bigger than his record coming into this fight, and maybe comes out a star bigger than his record still, which breeds some contempt and whatnot, of course.

But in the end, not many people refused to give Garcia his props for this one. Some reactions from the pros at the finish:

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