Boxer Ryan Garcia goes Instagram official with Aussie influencer Mikaela Testa
US boxing star Ryan Garcia has gone Instagram official with an Aussie influencer in one of the most bizarre ways possible.
US boxing star Ryan Garcia has gone Instagram official with Australian influencer Mikaela Testa, less than two months after revealing his divorce.
Garcia is a former WBC interim lightweight champion who is 24-1 in his boxing career, the one loss coming after he was knocked out by Gervonta Davis last April.
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But the 25-year-old is still a star of the ring and is set to fight the undefeated undisputed lightweight champion Devin Haney for the WBC super lightweight title in April.
Garcia has not only made waves in the ring, with a monster social media following of over 10.3 million followers on Instagram.
And he went social with Testa in a post that also revealed he was going to train her for a Misfits Boxing bout, where he’d personally put $500,000 plus a percentage of the PPV on the table.
“Look this is my baby, MY QUEEN BELIEVE THAT! Stop judging her is she perfect no. But are you? THOUGHT SO. I love her so stop hating,” Garcia wrote.
“BTW, I’m training her to fight and I’m willing to put her against whoever on @misfitsboxing and if you feel you can take her tag your self In it and I’ll set up a fight and you’ll walk away with a bag. No less than $500,000 and percentage of PPV if it makes sense. @mikkimouse404”.
He had also posted on his Stories: “On a semi serious note I have a new Girlfriend. Not super serious at this time but she my boo.
“Ima teach her how to fight! She’s the next one up @misfitsboxing.”
Misfits Boxing puts influencer and crossover boxing events together, founded by British YouTuber KSI.
He also took to Twitter with a “Girlfriend Appreciation Post”.
Girlfriend Appreciation Post pic.twitter.com/a9h6Bba7pl
— RYAN GARCIA (@RyanGarcia) February 29, 2024
Testa has 928,000 followers on her main Instagram account and 2.4m fans on Tik Tok.
After some backlash to the post, Garcia hit back with: “Bro what’s up with Yall? I can’t ft my girl and post it??? This is social media, where you share your life. I’m not worried about nobody and what they post. It’s all good. If you don’t like her then that’s on you. I’m just being me.”
In early January, Garcia announced both the birth of his first son and his divorce from model Andrea Celina in posts within two hours of each other.
The couple had been together since 2019 and had tied the knot in 2021. Their son was their second child together.
However, their shock divorce left plenty of people stunned.
The 23-year-old Testa, who once revealed she earns $162,000 a month through social media, recently explained she’s become a recluse because “almost every time I go outside I get sexually assaulted”.
“One of them was filming and one of them run up behind of me with all of her force and hits me on the a**,” she told her 2.4 million TikTok followers.
“It left a welt handprint mark and now a bruise.
“There were hundreds of people around, I’m in shock, I’m in pain. I turned around, worried somebody had done something to me that is going to greatly impact my health. It only takes a split second.”
Mikaela said it took her a few moments to process what had happened, and after “checking for blood”, she turns to the young woman who slapped her.
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“I say in the nicest, sweetest voice I could possibly find: ‘Please can you never ever scare me like that again. Please don’t ever touch me again.’
“She looks at me with the angriest face ever and goes, ‘It was a compliment’.
“However she then starts spouting the most vile, rancid, horrible stuff about me.”
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