“I was on a run when I found out what happened and they called me and told me what happened – my daughter had passed,” he told BoxingScene. “For the first three hours I couldn’t really talk; I couldn’t figure out what’s going on; what should I do. I thought that it was all over and that I was just going to pack my stuff and go back home. Then I talked to my father and my father told me ‘The achievement of your lifetime is so close – you have to move forward, you have to do this for your daughter, you have to do all of this in her memory’, and that’s what motivated me, that’s what pushed me through. For her – I had to push forward, I couldn’t give up. It was very tough; it was very difficult times. I never get past it – it’s always with me. But the goal remains the same – to become a champion, and to achieve what all my family dreamed about.
