Ryan Garcia

My dad was a boxer for a little bit, like an amateur fighter.

It was my uncle that was kind of more, I guess, you know, I guess better.

He was, he went to the nationals.

He was the only one in my family that went to the nationals at that time.

And he lost, but he said, you know, somebody in our family is going to come back here.

And, you know, he always, he always, oh, I guess it was what he told me.

He said that, you know, he would always look for when a kid was born, like, all right, this is going to be the one.

And then he said,

None of the, all the kids came and, you know, he was like, nope, nope, nope.

And then he said, when I was born, he was like, all right, that's the one.

That's insane.

I know.

I know.

It doesn't fucking sound real, but that's, that's what he said.

Hey, maybe he's just filling shit in my head so I could think, you know, and prepare, like, you know, propel me to be like, yeah, I was always that guy.

Yeah, exactly.

But that's what he said.

Yeah.

I mean, I still feel pressure, you know, but I think that's why part like partly I dedicated this last fight to my dad for the like, you know, my first world title.

I really wanted just to win that for him.