Social media sensation Deen The Great wants to face Ryan Garcia once he gets past Evil Hero on the undercard of KSI's boxing return this weekend.
The American YouTube star has been making waves since touching down in London this week, and is heavily favoured to steal the show at The O2 arena on Saturday night. He has been signed by Daniel 'Keemstar' Keem and Yusef 'Fousey' Erakat's Happy Punch Promotions, and will face an opponent who has already competed twice in celebrity boxing affairs.
But at just 21-years-old, he has ambitions for bigger things both in YouTube boxing, and as a future professional. He even believes that with his current skillset, he could offer a challenge to rising lightweight star Garcia. The American is one of the brightest rising stars in the sport, but Deen believes that he could offer him a good fight even at his current stage without a professional fight.
Garcia is in discussions for a potential bout with the likes of Gervonta Davis or Devin Haney at lightweight, and likely hasn't paid much heed to Deen's viral boxing videos to date. But a big performance may land the youngster on the radar of some big promotions, particularly with the bout being broadcast on Garcia's home platform DAZN.
"I'm going wherever the money's at," Deen told Mirror Fighting ahead of his Misfits Boxing debut. "Obviously I could have went pro, got $500 for a fight and s*** and signed with some whack promoter, but I chose the YouTube route and ended up boxing.
"Who knows after this fight I could get signed by DAZN after this fight, who knows? After they see my skills? We'll see... I've got a hit list laid out but I can't expose that just yet. I do want smoke with Ryan Garcia, I don't want to name names before y'all see me, you haven't seen me fight yet but I could take the man right now. You'll see Saturday night why I could take Ryan."
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First, he must take on the very different task of TikTok star Evil Hero. The American has been training at Brickhouse Boxing Gym in California after working with MMA coaches for his first two bouts, and his level is still relatively unknown given his first two opponents were much less intimidating than Deen.
"I'm going to show everything in the ring," he told Mirror Fighting after a heated press conference yesterday when things almost got physical between the pair. "Nothing's the same from my last two fights. I had a black belt in jiu-jitsu training me, now I have a former world champion boxer.
"I took a huge break after my debut, got a girlfriend and got lazy but I jumped right back into it and now I'm 100 per cent better. I felt a lot stronger than him, he touched me and I was like right up to him but you could tell."
