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[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

Oh how convineant.

 

[The Bookie]

You can rewind.
Big knockdown by Thor at the end of round 3.

 

[Splash]

Is it lagging? I'm not having any problems

Seems better now, just been choppy whole way through.

 

[Splash]

Eddie Hall came in with that civilian mindset of just loading up a big shot.
Cardio on zero
Technique on minus

 

[West Coast Avenger]

A lot of beef in the ring right now

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[West Coast Avenger]

The Mountain kicked his ass....

 

[Tanahashi Coates]

English Munguia AKA Sherraz is at middleweight now?

 

[R=G]

 

[Conscious Pilot]

 

[Conscious Pilot]

 

[Omar Little]

 

[patscorpio]

 

[patscorpio]

Ryan Garcia on Canelo Questioning His Discipline: You Were Just Sh!tting on Me; What Was the Point?

BY SEAN NAM
Published Sun Mar 20, 2022, 08:23 AM EDT
Ryan Garcia believes Canelo Alvarez essentially broke “gym code” when the undisputed 168-pound champion came out with comments criticizing his work ethic.

The budding lightweight attraction caught the boxing world unawares last month when he announced he was leaving Alvarez’s trainer Eddy Reynoso to work with Joe Goossen. Garcia cited Reynoso’s inability to devote more of his time to training him.

Garcia also had some beef with Alvarez stemming from comments the Mexican superstar made to the press last year after Garcia pulled out of a scheduled summer fight with Javier Fortuna in order to focus on improving his mental health.

“Look, Ryan has a lot of talent. But to me in my eyes, he’s wasting a lot of time and wasting his talent,” Alvarez said back in November. “I look at him and don’t see him 100 percent dedicated and, to us, that’s a bad signal.”

In an interview published Friday on the Boxing with Chris Mannix podcast, Garcia opened up in detail about how he felt “betrayed” by Alvarez for making those comments in public and not behind closed doors.

“Did it get me a little – was I shocked? Yes,” Garcia told Mannix. “I was kind of confused on it. I didn’t understand why he would say something like that, especially to the media. Because he could’ve definitely taken me somewhere else and told me personally. So I was kind of confused on that. I kind of took it as disloyal, because I would never do that to him.

“I would never speak on him in the gym or what I think he should be doing. We’re a team. We shouldn’t speak any ill towards each other. And I know I’ve never done that and I never will. He’s a great fighter, a great human being, and I hope the best for him. But when he said that I felt betrayed. Like really? OK.”

For a while, Garcia and Alvarez seemed like the archetypal little brother-big brother tandem. In addition to training in the same gym, both fighters made it a point to appear at each other’s fights and shower each other with words of praise.

Garcia, however, felt the relationship was one-sided, that Alvarez did not show him the same level of affection. It does not help that Alvarez came in defense of Reynoso shortly after Garcia announced he was working with Goossen, saying that Reynoso had “all the time” for Garcia.

“To be honest I don’t really think he wanted to show me the love that I did,” Garcia said of Alvarez. “I don’t think so, just based on other things. It’s all good, man. I have a good heart and good intentions. I never wish bad on him. I think I’m in a good place. I’m happy. That ain’t gonna change how I throw my punches, so I don’t care.”

Garcia (21-0, 18 KOs), who is scheduled to return to the ring against Emmanuel Tagoe April 9 at the Alamadome in San Antonio, said Alvarez knew “what I was going through,” which made his critical comments all the more shocking. Garcia said the pivotal incident was when he walked into Alvarez’s gym last year and found himself unable to continue with his workout after 20 minutes. He recalls breaking down in tears and having to leave. Alvarez was there, a witness to the whole event, Garcia said.

“I was just crying nonstop, I don't know if I can do this,” Garcia said. “Like, you (Canelo) have seen it. It’s true. I did leave 20 minutes in (at the gym) but I would never do that if I was focused and getting ready for a fight. It was just a moment [where] I was broken down mentally.”

As to the notion that Alvarez was simply trying to encourage Garcia and get him to work harder, Garcia was skeptical. Garcia said nobody worked harder at the gym than him, including Alvarez, and presumably Oscar Valdez, Frank Sanchez, and Andy Ruiz Jr., to name a few of the other trainees under Reynoso. Garcia referred to himself as a "maniac" when it came to preparing for a fight and found the idea that he needed more "motivation" ludicrous.

“That’s why I was kind of like, ‘Wow, you really gonna do that? You know me. You know I’m like that,’” Garcia said. “I don’t mess around. He knows that I never gave him any edge. I was competitive no matter what. They pushed, I pushed. And you were not beating me no matter who it is in the gym. They know that about me. That’s why Eddy knew I was gonna be great and he told everybody.

“That’s why I was like wow I was kind of confused on what he said. I don’t know what his motive was in that., What was the point he was trying to get across? You were just sh!tting on me. How does that motivate me? I am my own motivator. I got a lot riding on me. I don’t need motivation.

“I’m a strong, maniac training machine that I’ll figure out to get this sh!t down. Like, Michael Jordan, all that, that’s me. Canelo Alvarez, Ryan Garcia, that’s me. Floyd Mayweather, that’s me. I’m that person. It’s crazy for him to say that.”

 

[reservoirdogs]

Ryan Garcia...Beat Campbell and fukking around ever since, got shook of Haney when he was up to be a mandatory challenger.
I don't see into it, but yeah... definitely think he was frustrated that he's in one of those few gyms where he isn't the main star, his ego couldn't handle it for long. No logical reason to switch when Reynoso gym improved him clearly and scored 5 wins, 5 KOs with them, a top 10 guy among them too.

At least HE didn't get the Kambosos fight Rather see Loma in there than Ryan, most of all it should be Haney but Haney needs to move up and leave this 135 squad behind

 

[KingOFKings]

I will say this though. At least Oscar is being blunt.

I have a feeling Eddie is getting the same message from DAZN behind closed doors yet tries to save face by telling the media that his major Matchroom guys can fight off of DAZN to make big fights (Andrade).