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Ryan Garcia confirms he'll be at Colorado's Spring Game

World-class championship boxer will head to Boulder one week after scoring a major upset
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Ryan Garcia walked into Brooklyn's Barclays Center as a major underdog on Saturday night and walked out a champion. While Devin Haney's WBC junior welterweight title was off-the-table due to the champion boxer not making weight, Garcia's powerful form with three knockdowns was the difference in a majority decision.

After the triple KO's, Garcia announced he would be Boulder Bound for next week's Black and Gold Spring Game, according to a post from Deion Sanders Jr. on Sunday.


The Golden Boy fighter will be one of the major names on hand for the star-studded event, including five-time Grammy Award-winner Lil Wayne, who will be performing at CU Events Center on Saturday night. Fellow Young Money artist Fooly Faime also said he would be on campus next week. Wayne is schedule to preform with Bossman Dlow and YG as part of Prime's big weekend at Colorado.

    
Garcia (25-1, 20 KOs) was a +575 underdog right before the fight and paid Haney upward of $600K, according to multiple sources for the fight to proceed. He'll move his way up the rankings and will likely secure another title shot soon. 


Colorado will host upwards of 30K people for this year's event at Folsom Field on Saturday, April 27th.  

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JOSH TOLLE

Josh Tolle is a writer covering college sports for On SI. Outside of storytelling, the multi-talented broadcaster has play-by-play experience at the professional and collegiate levels. In 2018, he began calling games for the National Women’s Soccer League. He has also called games for the United Soccer League, Concacaf, and the U.S. Open Cup. He has called hockey for the Premier Hockey Federation for the past three seasons and was the play-by-play voice for the Superior RoughRiders of the Western Hockey League. He has provided play-by-play for various other sports including football, basketball, baseball and volleyball events. Since 2015, Tolle has been the voice of Colorado School of Mines Athletics having called football, men's and women's basketball and soccer. He previously wrote for SB Nation.

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