Garcia wins WBC Silver belt with a quick KO

Ryan Garcia  knocked out Romero Duno (21-2, 16 KOs)  in the first round of their scheduled 10-round lightweight bout.

Duno was supposed to provide the toughest test of the 21-year-old Garcia’s career on the Canelo Alvarez-Sergey Kovalev undercard at MGM Grand Garden Arena.

But Instead, Garcia knocked down Duno with a perfectly timed right hand to the temple.

The Filipino fighter bravely attempted to get up, but Referee Tony Weeks wisely and timely stopped their fight 1:38 into the first round.

Garcia (19-0, 16 KOs), of Victorville, California, won the vacant WBC Silver lightweight title.

Duno’s only previous loss was an eight-round, unanimous-decision defeat to Mikhail Alexeev (12-1, 4 KOs) in May 2016.