Ryan Garcia has long been a draw in the sport of boxing whether you\u2019ve loved or hated him, but now that he\u2019s managed to secure his first world title he feels legitimized and during an appearance on ESPN he shared some of these thoughts on leading a new era in the sport.<\/p>\n
Garcia on wanting to fight Benn<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been talking for some time. It hasn\u2019t been just recently. It\u2019s been a year, two years. He actually pulled up on me in London and tried to fight me, start some trouble at an award show. So ever since then he\u2019s been on my radar, but since he\u2019s #1 and I\u2019m world champion I said \u2018let\u2019s do it\u2019 you know. There\u2019s no more waiting, let\u2019s jut get it on.\u201d<\/p>\n
On whether he considers himself the face of boxing<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a world champion now. And now that I have a belt and \u2014 I\u2019ve always had the following, always had the opportunities you have as a superstar, now I have this piece that I was missing, of course I would love to keep fighting and kind of carry boxing. I actually lead this generation of young fighters of popularity and now of being a world champion. So I have all the opportunities to be the face of boxing but now I just have to prove it with my dedication and all my fights that are going to be lined up.\u201d<\/p>\n
On coming back from a big loss to Gervonta Davis to become a champion<\/p>\n
\u201cI went and took all the clauses that Gervonta put on me and I\u2019m the one that made that fight happen. Yes, the result didn\u2019t go my way but if you really want boxing to propel you can\u2019t be worried about that. All you can do is dust yourself off, get back, and prove yourself again. If I get the opportunity to rematch him, guess what, we\u2019re going to do it on my terms and even terms, and let\u2019s see what\u2019s going to happen then. I\u2019m a world champion now, what\u2019s he been doing? Why are we talking about him, he hasn\u2019t been doing nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia has long been a draw in the sport of boxing whether you\u2019ve loved or hated him,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-678467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}