Andre Ward advises Ryan Garcia to put down social media after massive rant Associated PressBoxing great Andre Ward suggested that Ryan Garcia go zero-dark-thirty on social media after posting a long string of frantic Tweets leading up to his light welterweight title bout against Devin Haney. Ward questioned why Garcia was posting so much rather than focusing on his training. The future Hall-of-Famer was also alarmed by what Garcia was revealing to the public. From experience, the 40-year-old boxing analyst saw Garcia\u2019s tirade as damaging to his fight. Ward offered sound wisdom to the 25-year-old pugilist and social media sensation at a time where he may have needed to hear it the most. Andre Ward implored Ryan Garcia\u2019s camp to reel him in Ward spoke with TMZ Sports on Saturday about the highly-anticipated bout. When asked if Garcia\u2019s apparent meltdown was a reason for him to back out of fighting Haney on April 20, Ward took a more combative stance: \u201cThat ain\u2019t time for self-care, that\u2019s not time for counseling, that\u2019s time to get ready for war,\u201d Ward proclaimed. The former two-division world champion didn\u2019t like seeing Garcia exploit his own vulnerabilities in Tweets such as this: Garcia didn\u2019t wholly play the victim. He also touched on many topics unrelated to the fight, including conspiracy theories and world conflicts. Nonetheless, Ward recognized a sense of franticness from the former lightweight champion. He ultimately looked out for his best interest, professing that he\u2019d be praying for the knockout artist before giving more sound advice: \u201cIt\u2019s enough to be dealing with it and struggling with it as is,\u201d he continued, \u201cbut then you gon\u2019 let the whole world in on your struggle. It\u2019s not always a wise thing to do.\u201d The Showtime Boxing commentator, like the rest of the boxing world, wants to see an epic fight go down between Garcia and Haney. The lead up to a fight is where opponents try to gain psychological advantages over one another through trash talk. Garcia may have handed Haney another prop to damage his confidence before entering the squared circle later this spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Andre Ward advises Ryan Garcia to put down social media after massive rant Associated PressBoxing great Andre Ward suggested that Ryan Garcia go zero-dark-thirty on social media after posting a long string of frantic Tweets leading up to his light welterweight title bout against Devin Haney. Ward questioned why Garcia was posting so much rather […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}