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Boxing's future superstar Ryan Garcia brushes off the recent criticisms from his mentor Saul “Canelo” Alvarez.
Last month, undisputed super middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez didn't mince his words in sharing his real thoughts on his understudy Ryan Garcia.
For Canelo, Garcia is “wasting a lot of time and wasting his talent” as he has not been “100 percent” dedicated to what he is doing.
Commenting on his mentor's blunt take, Garcia chose not to dwell on the negative and insisted that he never loses focus. What's even more interesting, the 23-year-old stressed that he totally “understand” Canelo and regardless of what people think about the said remark, it's “all love” at the end of the day.
Article Continues Below“I don't lack inspiration. I'm a hungry fighter. I had a hard year,” Garcia said of Canelo's comment via Boxing Scene. “I understand where he's coming from. It's always all love. I don't take anything personal.”
Garcia had endured a tough 2021. Aside from a wrist injury, “mental health issues” also affected his hot streak, an uncertainty that saw him pulling out of his scrap against Javier Fortuna.
Nevertheless, Garcia remains optimistic about his career and has vowed to be on his peak form once he enters the ring once again.
“I just know that I had a hard year,” he confessed. “But I'm fully recovered mentally. And when I get back with this [after the wrist surgery] I am coming for everybody's heads that said I'm not disciplined, not nothing. I am coming straight for them. I am going to knock everybody out to sleep, cold. I'm coming for everyone. Destroy them. That's it.”
