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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Every day I waiting click your ass up the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
You don't finish for y'all.
Speaker 4 (00:06):
Done morning, everybody, it's the j Envy Jess Hilarious, Charlamage
the guy.
Speaker 5 (00:11):
We are the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 4 (00:12):
I brought with us this morning, and we got a
special guest in the building.
Speaker 6 (00:17):
From Philly, Philly, Philly.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Hey, the brother Danny Garcia. You're welcome, bro, Thank you
appreciate it. Now you feeling I feel good, feel good?
Speaker 7 (00:23):
Are you really having a final fight, Daniel Gonzalez? Yeah,
like retired, like done done?
Speaker 6 (00:29):
Yeah, I feel like yeah, really, why do you think that?
Just this is my forty second fight. I've been prosing
two thousand and eight and uh, I mean, I won
world titles. I had my ups and have my downs.
But just to be I just feel like I can
still fight. But I just feel like I'm not passionate
as I used to be about it.
Speaker 7 (00:50):
Interesting.
Speaker 6 (00:51):
I don't want to let my fans down. But at
the end of the day, I feel this fight. I
feel good. I know what I got myself into. So
my show, my promotion, that's what really promoted, that's what
really motivated me to do this last fight. But other
than that, I think that's pretty much it. I just
feel like I want to give my fans everything that
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I got in that ring, and I don't know if
I could keep up that momentum and that that type
of lovepect.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
They don't want to be a couple of YouTubers though.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
After that, like, oh, y'all do that. I'm talking about fights.
They really count.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
YouTube YouTube fights, money and influencer.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
Yeah, that's for sure. Now I'll do that for sure.
I still be an entertainer. I still go out there.
Speaker 8 (01:39):
But the decision you made happened must have been it
must have been doing training camp, because when you first
announced this, like you said, this is your farewell to Brooklyn,
but you're still gonna fight again.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
But then like that changed.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
I said it was eighty five chance that.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I hang it up.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Yeah, okay, what was the last thing because you said
that was the eighty five So what.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Was the fifth?
Speaker 6 (02:00):
The team is just because I'm a fighter?
Speaker 5 (02:01):
What was the thing that said now this is it?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Was it?
Speaker 5 (02:03):
The training was like, nah, I'm my back hurt.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
Like it wasn't. It wasn't the training. It was like
before I started, before I even started training, I knew
that this could be my last fight.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Does fatherhood play a part in it?
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Yeah, definitely. I got three kids, three beautiful kids, and
I got my son, Danny he's one. I got Palaced
she's three, and I got Philly she's ten. So definitely,
just being here, I'm missing time with them. And my
daughter's already ten years old, and I felt like I
missed her grow up. To be honest, that's how fast
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them ten years went. It's like I missed so much,
you know, because when you're in the prime of your career,
everything's going so fast. It's like everything's like you miss everything.
And I just felt like I missed her grow up.
And I don't want to feel that with my other
two kids.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
You gained a lot, though, Oh yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
For sure. It's a sacrifice, you know, and life. You know,
you can't have it all. You can't have that beautiful family.
Then you can't have the time, you can't have the money, Like,
you just can't have it all. Every time you gotta
sacrific something, you know, how it goes to be successful.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
You know, you've been a world champion in multiple weight classes,
but I feel like people still underrate you.
Speaker 7 (03:15):
Why do you think that is.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
I don't know, probably because I'm a Philly. I don't know.
I really never understood that. But like even when I
was an amateur, I was the number one amateur in
two thousand and six, and you know, in the amateurs,
you gotta fight the best every single day. You can't
there's no ducking and dodging. So sometimes it's harder to
win a national title than to be a world champion,
because a world champion they could like kind of build
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you up and stuff like that. But I never understood.
It's just it's just how the fans looked at me.
Sometimes you can't choose how people look at you. Sometimes
you think you're gonna be like this love person and
then when you go out to the mass's like you
the hated person. So it's just how it's just how
the people look at you. And that's how the people.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Brooklyn loves you, though.
Speaker 8 (03:57):
I mean, you fought nine times already in BK and
for a long period of time you held the record
for the gate right, what fight was that.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Therm in sixteen five hundred, Yeah, and then tanking rolling?
People love you, yeah, yeah, I mean yeah for sure,
So definitely the fans like me. I mean probably like
the politics of boxing is what I think he's trying
to say, Like they never gave me my credit, but
I think the fans give me my credit and the
fans love me.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
You said, you just realizing that you don't have the passion?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Is this something you're just realizing or you know, even
I think your last fight was against what laua? Yeah, yeah,
and you got stopped in the night round. Did you
have the passion? Then you think it was Wayne going away?
Speaker 6 (04:36):
Then I thought I thought I was up for it.
And then remember I was out for twenty eight months
before that fight. I was out, and you know, boxing
inactivity for a fighter, that's the worst thing for a
boxer because you gotta stay active, you gotta stay sharp.
So I thought I could do it, and I went
up away class from one forty seven to one sixty.
Speaker 7 (04:57):
Damn.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Yeah, I was trying to do something legendary, but it
didn't work my way, you know. But it's all good,
So let's talk about it.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
You took two years off the ship because of anxiety
and depression. So what happened during the two years that says,
you know what, I need to take a step aside,
like what was what was concerning the.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Banda Vidas fights to the Laura fight. I was actually
already I recovered from everything that was from like from
twenty twenty to twenty twenty two. That's what I was
going through, like anxiety and depression. Then I came back,
I beat Banavida's I put it all behind me. I
just started looking at life different, started being I appreciate things,
being grateful, and uh I felt good. And then I
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just sat around for two and a half years, not
because I wanted to, because you know, boxing just sometimes
this is just the way it is.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
You know, you fought some killers too, that man, you
think about Thermy and that. I mean, I swear I
kind of forgot about some of those tills.
Speaker 7 (05:47):
I came in.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
We were just talking about. But you fought Therman, you
fought Porter, you faught Spence, but you never got stopped.
You feel like your toughness, your toughness was taking for granted.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
Oh yeah, for sure. Two out of those three fights
I feel like I won. You know, those are the
controversial fights, especially the Thermin and Quarter fight. Many people
thought I won those fights, but no, I always knew.
Everybody knew I was gritty, I was tough. That's what
got me here is my heart. So I never yeah,
I never E've been knocked down to my last fight
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because I took a knee. Really, I got here with
a good shot, took a knee and that that's pretty
much it.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
How do people don't fact and stuff like that and
not like just somebody's toughness, like you know what I mean,
like you do? We do?
Speaker 8 (06:29):
I mean I agree with you. I think that Dan
still doesn't get the credit he deserves. But when it's
all set and down, I guess you don't want to
say look back and you know you hang the gloves
up and they go watch those fights on historic fights.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
You know you get in in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 8 (06:46):
Yeah, for sure, I got You know, some people think
I've read something on the like a week ago about
your fighting a random personal he said, Oh, he's fighting
this last fight because he needs money.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
But that's that's not the case with you.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
You got with your money, the money. It's not show,
you know, so I'm not even doing it for the money.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
Right, But talking about that though, like how you one
of the few fighters that has done well with your
money and don't really need to fight every year you
on a barbershop.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
You Yeah, I have real estate investments with the banks,
and that's pretty much how I live. I just leave
off my investments, like the interest that's all, like you know,
rental income and then interest from my stocks and my investments.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Yeah, what made you start thinking that way?
Speaker 6 (07:37):
I just started reading, like I used to wonder why
like fighters went broke. Number one was taxes, Like a
million is not a million? No, mallon's like four hundred.
Well I have to pay everybody in box, and it
might be like three hundred. So I just started looking
at like why fighters go broke? Number one was taxes.
So I'm like, okay, I got to make sure that
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when I get this check, I got enough to pay
the taxes at the end of the year and still
have some money left. So first I just stacked my
money up, and then when I got to a certain point.
I used to always go into the bank and the
bank will tell me, like you should you should go
to the wealth management department so they can help you,
like invest your money. The first time I went in there,
it was like stocks, but you know you're coming from
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the hood. Everybody tells you don't buy that stuff because
you're gonna lose all your money and go broke. So
I just went and bought some Warren Buffett books and
I just read like two Warren Buffet books, and then
he was like, over the last hundred years, like the
market only crashed ten times, but it always recovered. So
when I read that, I'm like, look, this is a
guy who's this He's a master in it. So I
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put the whole thing in there. I just put everything
I've had in there and just see everything. It was
just like so many stocks. It's like I got sixty
percent stocks and then like forty percent bonds, so forty
percent of my money, say, and then the others like
you know, volatile.
Speaker 9 (08:54):
What's the mindset going into this fight with the being
your last fight, right, Like, is there any additional pressure?
Speaker 7 (09:01):
No?
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Actually, I feel really good. I feel good. I feel relaxed.
It's like I don't have no weight on my shoulders.
I just feel like I'm I'm a veteran in the
game and I'm over that like psyching myself out stuff.
I'm just taking them one day at a time. You know,
sometimes you're just worried about the future so much that
you kind of like psych yourself out. But now it's
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just like I just try to learn how to enjoy
every moment leading up to the fight.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
When you see these boxes get some of these huge
paydays by fighting whoever they want. Right, we talked earlier
about YouTube stars and influencers. Does that make you say,
you know what, forget quote unquote real box, and I'm
gonna go this lane because there's more money in this lane.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Yeah, I mean, I wish I would have always start
like that. Like growing up in Philly, it's like if
you did, like if you promoted yourself or then anything weird,
it's like you get clowned for it. Like it's like
Philly they teach try to be like real. But I
feel like that's what we're missing, is like the marketing
part you said real real what it's just like, don't
do not goofy for FAMESH got you? You know what
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I mean? Like that's how I was always brought it up.
But it's like, really, you gotta kind of have like
a character, you know, you got to you gotta be
a fighter, and you gotta be a entertainer. So I
wish I would have been thought like that. Yeah, but
I was like all in with it. But yeah, yeah,
(10:25):
I won't you know if it presents something's presented.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
To me, you know, but not even like YouTube results.
Speaker 8 (10:31):
So Turkey has been pulling a lot of money into
the sport and a lot of these fighters are getting
huge PAIDI is I know, I haming. You know, he's
done a lot for your career and he made sure
fighters get got paid well. But this Turkey is on
a different level. Like what you know reports that Bud
got fifty million against Canelo. Canelo got a buck fifty
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And do you wish you maybe was part of this era?
Speaker 6 (10:56):
No, not really. I mean I'm grateful for whatever I
got in my life. Yeah, you know, I don't never
really count nobody else's pockets, never be happy to do that.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
What was it?
Speaker 8 (11:06):
What was your take on on on Bud's performance against Canelo?
Did you see that coming in? Who did you pick
to win that fight?
Speaker 6 (11:12):
I thought Canelo was gonna win because he's too strong,
Like I just thought he was gonna walk him down
and was gonna try to box him, and then it
was gonna give it to Canelo, like on a close fight,
just because he was the bigger fighter. But No, Crawford
did his thing like he did a beautiful performance.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
You forught him in the Amateurs?
Speaker 6 (11:28):
Yeah two times? Two times? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Who won those?
Speaker 6 (11:31):
I won the first one, that he won the second one.
But I felt like I want.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Both fighters always feel like that. I always feel like.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I was gonna ask you, what's the fight that keeps
you up at night? Like what's the one you wish
you could run back?
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Man? Keep them? That fight was like, that was my
first loss, and I was thirty three and oh before that,
so I never dreamed about like losing. So when I lost,
I felt like somebody died in my family. Like that's
how bad it was.
Speaker 7 (11:57):
Damn.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah, did Floyd do that to a generation? I feel
like Floyd did that to a generation Floyd being undefeated
and made boxes feel like you gotta be undefeated to
be great.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
Nah. I never really cared about being undefeated, but it
was like my first loss. It was tough, like you
know what I mean, Like the first time losing. I
knew it was a possibility I could lose because I
was finding another great champion like myself. But I just
felt unstoppable. So when when I lost, it was like dang,
I learned something about myself.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
So how did you recover and reset from that?
Speaker 6 (12:26):
I just took a year off and came back and
knocked somebody out and then got about it. What a
fight was that? Brandon Reals?
Speaker 8 (12:34):
Oh yeah, yeah, Brandon was tough. I never you never
seen Brandon get knocked out like that. That was vicious.
Who was somebody that you wish you would have fought
out from your era that you didn't?
Speaker 6 (12:44):
Just Floyd pack Ya, That's about it, Floyd and Pa. Yeah.
I feel like I thought everybody else besides Crawford, but
I thought him in the amateurs, right, But I really
thought every single body in my generation.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
Did you Did you ever try to make a fight
with pack Yo back when you were at.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
When he fought Thurman, they off for they offered him
mere Thurman. Yeah, they said you want to fight Daniel
Thurman and he picked he picked Thurman. Wo.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
Yeah, it was never an option.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Well, when I thought Matisse and he thought, uh Canelo.
Remember I was the core main event. I was told
if I beat Matisa, Remember, I was like you was
underdog again. Nobody thought I was gonna win, but they
said if I won that fight that they were setting
it out for me to fight Fluid, but it just
never happened.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Damn, Which fights you think to find you as a fighter.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Everybody always want to talk about the losses, Which one,
which was which win? You think to find you a fighter,
you had to show people. This is why Danny Garcia
it needs to be in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
Which fight would be?
Speaker 6 (13:42):
Well, the mere Con fight, I was eight to one underdog. Damn, yeah,
I was eight one under dog. I remember when I
came back to my room. My friend was laying the money.
He put ten thousand on me. He was laying on
them on the bed. I remember at the.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
MB who was that.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
That's my friend Eddie Freddie. Yeah, he mean like eighty thousand.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
Jesus.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
He was just laying on the money and I was like, damn,
I need a piece of that. Because I didn't really
make a lot of money. I just took it because
I was just trying to be great. But they said
I got lucky on that fight. But then I came back.
I beat Morales again, I beat Judah and Brooklyn and
then they fand me the Matisse.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
That was the defining fight in my opinion, because I.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
Was then underdog again and I went in there and
I beat him and I was like, what you say?
Speaker 8 (14:31):
And he was knocking everybody out. Yes, coming off a
big knockouts, that was a big win.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
And you talked earlier about taking time off of mental
health reasons. What did you learn about yourself during that
break that fight and could never teach?
Speaker 6 (14:44):
That's a good question. You just got to be like
I was always a warrior, Like I was worried about
stuff Like I just I learned that I can't. I
can't save everything, you know what I mean. I can't
change the world as much as you want. Like you
try to help, you know, you try to do this,
You try to do that. I just try to Yeah,
(15:07):
I can't save the world. And basically, like I just
try to be living the moment. That's it because most
of the stuff you're worrying about is like stuff that
never happens. And I don't know. I was always like that.
I just be worrying thinking about.
Speaker 7 (15:18):
Things that anxiety is.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Yeah, I just be if I gotta fight, I just
be thinking about it every day. I can get my
mind off the damn fight. And I'm thinking that I'm focused,
but I'm really just psyching myself out. As soon as
I go in the ring, it just go away. But
I just hate that feeling, like you know, it's like
you can't get that thought off your head.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
You feeling like that now?
Speaker 6 (15:38):
No, I feel good now.
Speaker 9 (15:39):
But look though, say you do lose, is that retirement
gonna be reversed? Like now I gotta fighte person.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
I gotta win. I can't lose. I can't lose. The
way I've been training and the way I've been the
way I've been preparing myself, I can't lose. There's no
way I could lose this fight, gotcha? I mean, you know,
but nah, why didn't you want your last fight in Philly?
(16:06):
I actually tried to do it in Philly. We actually
tried to do it out front at the Art Museum,
like first time ever. It wasn't enough time and then
I would have to wait till like next year, and
that would have been on another layoff, two year layoff,
waiting around again. It just didn't just didn't have enough
time to get it done.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
And it's not just like your last fight.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
You're doing it, like you mentioned earlier on your terms,
your your part on a millions dot co which your
fight is gonna be streamed on now. Pay per view
has been tough. Piracy is killed pay per view of Mars, right, Like,
what what? What made you make that decision and believe
in this in this company millions dot cold to streamed
your fight.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
I'm just taking a leap of faith, man, that's it.
That's it, just taking a chance. I've been taking chances
my whole career, you know, so I'm gonna take a chance.
It's gonna be on my own show. Have a bet
on myself basically, what.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
You're gonna do when you're retired, Like, how do you
plan to spend that? What you're going to do?
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Have fun?
Speaker 5 (17:06):
To raise his kids?
Speaker 6 (17:07):
That's it, raised my kids have fun. And I got
my boxing promotion too, So I'm still going to be
promoting boxing.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
And you're in the music and you got your own
music and parans for music.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Yeah, with your little sisters, Yeah for sure. My sisters
got dreams. So I'm always gonna support their dreams and
to be there for them.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
What about your kids boxing? If they want to box,
would you support that?
Speaker 6 (17:28):
Yeah? I let them fight. I let them fight. It's
the fastest way to him, right, I can teach him
how to fight.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
Teach you how to fight.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
The funny thing you said about marketing too, I was
thinking about it. I'm like, that was mad people and
surely that know how to market themselves and don't look
moofie though, like Gilly the Willows.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
Kevin Hart, Yeah, but.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Before they was all serious member but not Kevin Hart.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
Serious and Gilded the Chicken Man though, but he.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Was serious about that.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
We was Gil Now he's been in himself. He was
always like that, you know, funny laughing around. But you
know in Philly is just like gotta be tough. Yeah,
it's just how people. It's how they talk, they teach people,
or how you raised.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
Are you worried or about like I know you want
to retire, but do you get scared like that? Once
I'm done with this, it's really over because this is
your whole life. You've been boxing is what's seven years old?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Years old? Like, do you get sed Uh?
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Sometimes I think about it, I'm like, Dan, what I'm
gonna do now?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
It kind of defined you.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
But at the end of the day, my health is
my wealth, and that's the most important thing to me.
As long as I'm healthy and I'm good, I know
I can always make money or make deals or something
like that. You know what I mean. I just want
to leave the game in my brain, right, I don't
want to be all punchdog and stuff or yeah, I
mean that's the real stuff.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
And then you got baby cads and you got so
you definitely want to be.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Learn to my kids and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
You don't want to.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Be that way.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
Who been taught you on the business side of box?
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Your side? Like I said before, well, my pop always
told me by real estate. Okay, so like even like
back in Philly, like and when I first turned pro, Oh.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
No, I mean the business side of just boxing.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Oh the business side oh really, just me and my
dad I mean, and then our Haymen, And that's pretty
much it. That's the only person I ever worked with,
like talking real businesses, Angel Garcia and now Hayman. That
was it. It was just us three, like the whole run,
that whole run of all the people off thought. That
was just me Angel and omen.
Speaker 7 (19:34):
When you start making real money in the rent.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Well, I mean my first million dollars in twenty twelve,
when I thought Eric Morales and then after that, like
I'll made two million, three million, And when you when.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
You seen Floyd create his own promotion company back then
and just do it on his own.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
That may not make you think, you know what, let
me do that because Floyd.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
It seemed like Floyd just took a leap of faithor
and sai, I'm gonna do all this on myself and
created a brand doing it. Is that part of the
inspiration to do what you're doing now?
Speaker 6 (20:00):
I mean Floyd's inspired me in ways he has, definitely,
But I always wanted to do my own promotion. I
always wanted to do like have my own fight or
my own stable and things like that.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
How difficult is that?
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Because it from the outside it seems like I just
promote myself and go to the fight and do that.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
But how difficult is it? Break it down? What it actually?
Speaker 6 (20:21):
It's probably better off just being a fighter, to be honest. Really, Yeah,
like you signed to a good promoter and they got
a good TV deal or something, and they paid for it.
That's probably the best way to go because remember you
the promoter. You gotta put out the money. You gotta
pay for the production, you gotta pay for the ambulance
in the back. You gotta pay for everything. So if
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it don't sell.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
For this fight?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
How much thinking about it?
Speaker 5 (20:53):
How much? How much do you know?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
You don't got to give us exact but how much
you think around you have to put out for this
fight right here?
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Half a million, six hundred thousand.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
And did you make it back yet with the pre
sales and all that yet?
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Well yeah, we we we have. Yeah, we're there. Yeah,
we're there, We're there. So I'm saying, we get some
good buys and we uh, we get some good walkings.
We we we were in the green, we straight.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
So you would have rather done this with a PBC
or our top ring, go to the zone or somebody.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Like I would? I would I love to have done
like them streaming.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Yeah I'm tied of this.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
No, no, like I was. Still would have did it
the same way, but if they would have used their platform,
but it just wasn't enough time, you know, and then
the millions came around there they will give you shares
of the company and stuff like that. So I'm like, hey,
I got to think of like a businessman. Now. You
never know, in ten years they might be a billion
dollar company own I own some shares of the company,
they sell it and I'm good, absolutely.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
But how do you focus with because you're training for
a fight.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Yeah, But then on the business side, you're like, man,
I hope they say, gotta get I.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Gotta I got to make sure that.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
Well, my god, Mike right here, he's my partner.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
He so he uh, he take care of mayesterday.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
I must be. So it's going good. Yeah. So uh
it's tough, but I try not to worry about it
because I gotta worry about fighting and then whatever happens
after and I just deal. I'll deal with it then.
But the most important thing for me is getting his win.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Have you got any advice?
Speaker 8 (22:25):
Have you talked to al Hayman at all before this
fight or about what you're doing?
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Yeah, he knows everything. He knows everything.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Did he give you any advice? Like what did he say?
Speaker 6 (22:33):
It was just you know, well he just told he
just told his attorney to make sure that I'm good, like,
don't let nobody like basically, don't let nobody dirty.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
How did your pops feel when you told me you
wanted to retire? Was he even the person that might
have came to you and been like, yo, no.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
He wanted me to fight ten more times. You never
want me to stop every time he just touched me, like,
hey man, I can't believe it. I'm like, not over, Bob,
don't worry, We're still here.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
I didn't tell you when you first told him, though.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
I don't think he believes me. But he does. But
he don't because he loves boxing like he loves him
more than me. You know, boxing, He just it gave
us everything, you know what I mean, It just changed
our lives. So for me to say I'm not boxing
no more, like damn, you don't want to do something
to change your life.
Speaker 9 (23:26):
But life after boxing, he said, I'm gonna grab my
grandkids and train young one.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
You know, when you look at a lot of boxes,
a lot of boxes get disrespectful when it comes to
the match, right. I mean, we didn't see him talk
about people's mother's heritage.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
We didn't see some nasties.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
Inviting them to the genitals.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Crazy but they do anything.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
The self fights. But you never got there. How come
why would you say that you never did that.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
I don't think that's my personality, to be honest. I'm
just kind of like I'm the type of person I
just like that show you in the ring. I just
I don't know how people got energy, like losing weight
and everything, like right now I'm thirsty, I'm hungry, So
I don't even know how people be having all that
strengthen talking crazy and stuff. So it's just Piba is
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just your personality.
Speaker 8 (24:14):
Would you go to Puerto Rico is a country that
they loved boxing? Obviously you fought there one time a
long time ago. Do you want to tap in more
to that, like culture? Because one thing they show love
even the X champions, retired champions, like the trend Dad,
the Kotos, they be making appearances.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
All over there.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
They love fighters, Like have you ever thought about like
exploring Puerto Rico a little bit more?
Speaker 6 (24:34):
I thought about moving there. Really I should have moved
there ten years ago. And I'm Puerto Rican. You can
still do it, how to speak Spanish and everything to speak.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
I was.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
So when I went to school, it was like I
didn't there was no like Puerto Ricans in my school
or nothing. It was just like I went to school
like blacks and whites. It was like mixed. And then
I grew up like it wasn't no Puerto Ricans in
my neighborhood. So and then like it's like New York.
A lot of New Yorkers don't speak Spanish either.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
If you don't he's black, but I'm black, but you're
all black.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
My cousin the Puerto Ricans ever want you to they
would be like, nah, man, I want you us.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
They just can't understand how I can't speak Spanish, like
when I'm in Puerto Rico or something, how you can't
speak Spanish. I'm like, bro, see way you can't speak English. Yeah,
So I'm like, you can't speak English because you live
in Puerto Rico. I can't speak live in America. And
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he was like and he was like, damn, I never
thought about that. He was I never thought about that.
I was like, yeah, I never thought about that.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
To now, when it's all said and done, how do
you want people to describe Danny see at a box
of a businessman or just a kid who survived the
screecher Phieling Just inspiration.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
I want to be like a role model to all
the people anybody in the world who got dreams and
dreams and dreams come true. If you never uh never
give up, just then inspiration and somebody who never gave up.
Speaker 8 (26:18):
Let's say you you win big on Saturday at the
Barclay Center and you retire in the ring. What who
would bring you back out of retirement? Like what fight
or what fight you would say? You know what, pops,
We're gonna do it one more time.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
I mean, like ten millions.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
So who So it's a number, it's not a fighter number.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Ten million. The risk gotta be worth a reward.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Odebt T is a good number.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
I wanted to ask you about the terror Squad into existence.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
You told Terrence to stay at one sixty eight and
just fight Canelo again. Yeah, like if he came down
to one sixty you said, you know, that would be
a I don't know if you used.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
The words problem honestly hungry on there. I said, yeah,
they are hungry, but they're lesser names, you know, So
why you just came off winning a big name fight.
You're gonna go fight guys, some guys at wont sixty
that people really don't know, gotcha. I just say go
for the go for the big name again and get
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Now you're gonna get more money because you beat.
Speaker 8 (27:20):
Him to fight again. They're talking about it. I think
that at one six they won't beat mega fights.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
Yeah, you know what I'm saying, but he wants to
conquer it.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
He wants to be undisputed in four weight classes at
one sixty. He feels like that's a legacy that nobody
would ever chase. But that's tough because then you gotta
fight everybody to be undisputed.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
Well, I think they're about to unify, right like the
one dude?
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 8 (27:45):
Maybe if they all fight and one guy is undisputed,
then he only gotta fight one fight do it.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
But he's thirty eight though, man.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
Like I mean me, I'm gonna do it again. I'm
probably I'll do it against Canlo, the biggest name again
and make him a lot of money again. And you're
going to be the east side this time.
Speaker 8 (28:02):
Yeah, that's just how so you go, You'll go off
to one six day and fight Canelo if that presented itself, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
Twenty for Canelo because I know you're throwing that money.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
That's why if I don't believe you.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
But nah, I'm not even thinking about.
Speaker 8 (28:19):
That thinking about Saturday.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
By this Saturday, we wish you the best. Brother.
Speaker 7 (28:24):
What's the platform again.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
It's called Millions dot com and it's on Direct TV. Okay,
so if you got Direct TV, you can watch it
on there. So Millions dot co is the platform.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
Millions.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
When New York pull up to the bark Lak Day
the eighteenth, get there, get your tickets and like we said,
we wish you the best of luck.
Speaker 7 (28:40):
Brothers, congratulations or whatever it is you decide to do.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
Man, thank you, thank you, appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
It's Danny Garcia, We appreciate you. It's the Breakfast Club.
Good morning, every day waiting click up, the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
You don't finish for y'all done,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Every day I waiting click your ass up the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
You don't finish for y'all.
Speaker 4 (00:06):
Done morning, everybody, it's the j Envy Jess Hilarious, Charlamage
the guy.
Speaker 5 (00:11):
We are the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 4 (00:12):
I brought with us this morning, and we got a
special guest in the building.
Speaker 6 (00:17):
From Philly, Philly, Philly.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Hey, the brother Danny Garcia. You're welcome, bro, Thank you
appreciate it. Now you feeling I feel good, feel good?
Speaker 7 (00:23):
Are you really having a final fight, Daniel Gonzalez? Yeah,
like retired, like done done?
Speaker 6 (00:29):
Yeah, I feel like yeah, really, why do you think that?
Just this is my forty second fight. I've been prosing
two thousand and eight and uh, I mean, I won
world titles. I had my ups and have my downs.
But just to be I just feel like I can
still fight. But I just feel like I'm not passionate
as I used to be about it.
Speaker 7 (00:50):
Interesting.
Speaker 6 (00:51):
I don't want to let my fans down. But at
the end of the day, I feel this fight. I
feel good. I know what I got myself into. So
my show, my promotion, that's what really promoted, that's what
really motivated me to do this last fight. But other
than that, I think that's pretty much it. I just
feel like I want to give my fans everything that
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I got in that ring, and I don't know if
I could keep up that momentum and that that type
of lovepect.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
They don't want to be a couple of YouTubers though.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
After that, like, oh, y'all do that. I'm talking about fights.
They really count.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
YouTube YouTube fights, money and influencer.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
Yeah, that's for sure. Now I'll do that for sure.
I still be an entertainer. I still go out there.
Speaker 8 (01:39):
But the decision you made happened must have been it
must have been doing training camp, because when you first
announced this, like you said, this is your farewell to Brooklyn,
but you're still gonna fight again.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
But then like that changed.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
I said it was eighty five chance that.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I hang it up.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Yeah, okay, what was the last thing because you said
that was the eighty five So what.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Was the fifth?
Speaker 6 (02:00):
The team is just because I'm a fighter?
Speaker 5 (02:01):
What was the thing that said now this is it?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Was it?
Speaker 5 (02:03):
The training was like, nah, I'm my back hurt.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
Like it wasn't. It wasn't the training. It was like
before I started, before I even started training, I knew
that this could be my last fight.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Does fatherhood play a part in it?
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Yeah, definitely. I got three kids, three beautiful kids, and
I got my son, Danny he's one. I got Palaced
she's three, and I got Philly she's ten. So definitely,
just being here, I'm missing time with them. And my
daughter's already ten years old, and I felt like I
missed her grow up. To be honest, that's how fast
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them ten years went. It's like I missed so much,
you know, because when you're in the prime of your career,
everything's going so fast. It's like everything's like you miss everything.
And I just felt like I missed her grow up.
And I don't want to feel that with my other
two kids.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
You gained a lot, though, Oh yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
For sure. It's a sacrifice, you know, and life. You know,
you can't have it all. You can't have that beautiful family.
Then you can't have the time, you can't have the money, Like,
you just can't have it all. Every time you gotta
sacrific something, you know, how it goes to be successful.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
You know, you've been a world champion in multiple weight classes,
but I feel like people still underrate you.
Speaker 7 (03:15):
Why do you think that is.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
I don't know, probably because I'm a Philly. I don't know.
I really never understood that. But like even when I
was an amateur, I was the number one amateur in
two thousand and six, and you know, in the amateurs,
you gotta fight the best every single day. You can't
there's no ducking and dodging. So sometimes it's harder to
win a national title than to be a world champion,
because a world champion they could like kind of build
(03:38):
you up and stuff like that. But I never understood.
It's just it's just how the fans looked at me.
Sometimes you can't choose how people look at you. Sometimes
you think you're gonna be like this love person and
then when you go out to the mass's like you
the hated person. So it's just how it's just how
the people look at you. And that's how the people.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Brooklyn loves you, though.
Speaker 8 (03:57):
I mean, you fought nine times already in BK and
for a long period of time you held the record
for the gate right, what fight was that.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Therm in sixteen five hundred, Yeah, and then tanking rolling?
People love you, yeah, yeah, I mean yeah for sure,
So definitely the fans like me. I mean probably like
the politics of boxing is what I think he's trying
to say, Like they never gave me my credit, but
I think the fans give me my credit and the
fans love me.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
You said, you just realizing that you don't have the passion?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Is this something you're just realizing or you know, even
I think your last fight was against what laua? Yeah, yeah,
and you got stopped in the night round. Did you
have the passion? Then you think it was Wayne going away?
Speaker 6 (04:36):
Then I thought I thought I was up for it.
And then remember I was out for twenty eight months
before that fight. I was out, and you know, boxing
inactivity for a fighter, that's the worst thing for a
boxer because you gotta stay active, you gotta stay sharp.
So I thought I could do it, and I went
up away class from one forty seven to one sixty.
Speaker 7 (04:57):
Damn.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Yeah, I was trying to do something legendary, but it
didn't work my way, you know. But it's all good,
So let's talk about it.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
You took two years off the ship because of anxiety
and depression. So what happened during the two years that says,
you know what, I need to take a step aside,
like what was what was concerning the.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Banda Vidas fights to the Laura fight. I was actually
already I recovered from everything that was from like from
twenty twenty to twenty twenty two. That's what I was
going through, like anxiety and depression. Then I came back,
I beat Banavida's I put it all behind me. I
just started looking at life different, started being I appreciate things,
being grateful, and uh I felt good. And then I
(05:33):
just sat around for two and a half years, not
because I wanted to, because you know, boxing just sometimes
this is just the way it is.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
You know, you fought some killers too, that man, you
think about Thermy and that. I mean, I swear I
kind of forgot about some of those tills.
Speaker 7 (05:47):
I came in.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
We were just talking about. But you fought Therman, you
fought Porter, you faught Spence, but you never got stopped.
You feel like your toughness, your toughness was taking for granted.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
Oh yeah, for sure. Two out of those three fights
I feel like I won. You know, those are the
controversial fights, especially the Thermin and Quarter fight. Many people
thought I won those fights, but no, I always knew.
Everybody knew I was gritty, I was tough. That's what
got me here is my heart. So I never yeah,
I never E've been knocked down to my last fight
(06:17):
because I took a knee. Really, I got here with
a good shot, took a knee and that that's pretty
much it.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
How do people don't fact and stuff like that and
not like just somebody's toughness, like you know what I mean,
like you do? We do?
Speaker 8 (06:29):
I mean I agree with you. I think that Dan
still doesn't get the credit he deserves. But when it's
all set and down, I guess you don't want to
say look back and you know you hang the gloves
up and they go watch those fights on historic fights.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
You know you get in in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 8 (06:46):
Yeah, for sure, I got You know, some people think
I've read something on the like a week ago about
your fighting a random personal he said, Oh, he's fighting
this last fight because he needs money.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
But that's that's not the case with you.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
You got with your money, the money. It's not show,
you know, so I'm not even doing it for the money.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
Right, But talking about that though, like how you one
of the few fighters that has done well with your
money and don't really need to fight every year you
on a barbershop.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
You Yeah, I have real estate investments with the banks,
and that's pretty much how I live. I just leave
off my investments, like the interest that's all, like you know,
rental income and then interest from my stocks and my investments.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Yeah, what made you start thinking that way?
Speaker 6 (07:37):
I just started reading, like I used to wonder why
like fighters went broke. Number one was taxes, Like a
million is not a million? No, mallon's like four hundred.
Well I have to pay everybody in box, and it
might be like three hundred. So I just started looking
at like why fighters go broke? Number one was taxes.
So I'm like, okay, I got to make sure that
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when I get this check, I got enough to pay
the taxes at the end of the year and still
have some money left. So first I just stacked my
money up, and then when I got to a certain point.
I used to always go into the bank and the
bank will tell me, like you should you should go
to the wealth management department so they can help you,
like invest your money. The first time I went in there,
it was like stocks, but you know you're coming from
(08:18):
the hood. Everybody tells you don't buy that stuff because
you're gonna lose all your money and go broke. So
I just went and bought some Warren Buffett books and
I just read like two Warren Buffet books, and then
he was like, over the last hundred years, like the
market only crashed ten times, but it always recovered. So
when I read that, I'm like, look, this is a
guy who's this He's a master in it. So I
(08:39):
put the whole thing in there. I just put everything
I've had in there and just see everything. It was
just like so many stocks. It's like I got sixty
percent stocks and then like forty percent bonds, so forty
percent of my money, say, and then the others like
you know, volatile.
Speaker 9 (08:54):
What's the mindset going into this fight with the being
your last fight, right, Like, is there any additional pressure?
Speaker 7 (09:01):
No?
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Actually, I feel really good. I feel good. I feel relaxed.
It's like I don't have no weight on my shoulders.
I just feel like I'm I'm a veteran in the
game and I'm over that like psyching myself out stuff.
I'm just taking them one day at a time. You know,
sometimes you're just worried about the future so much that
you kind of like psych yourself out. But now it's
(09:24):
just like I just try to learn how to enjoy
every moment leading up to the fight.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
When you see these boxes get some of these huge
paydays by fighting whoever they want. Right, we talked earlier
about YouTube stars and influencers. Does that make you say,
you know what, forget quote unquote real box, and I'm
gonna go this lane because there's more money in this lane.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Yeah, I mean, I wish I would have always start
like that. Like growing up in Philly, it's like if
you did, like if you promoted yourself or then anything weird,
it's like you get clowned for it. Like it's like
Philly they teach try to be like real. But I
feel like that's what we're missing, is like the marketing
part you said real real what it's just like, don't
do not goofy for FAMESH got you? You know what
(10:03):
I mean? Like that's how I was always brought it up.
But it's like, really, you gotta kind of have like
a character, you know, you got to you gotta be
a fighter, and you gotta be a entertainer. So I
wish I would have been thought like that. Yeah, but
I was like all in with it. But yeah, yeah,
(10:25):
I won't you know if it presents something's presented.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
To me, you know, but not even like YouTube results.
Speaker 8 (10:31):
So Turkey has been pulling a lot of money into
the sport and a lot of these fighters are getting
huge PAIDI is I know, I haming. You know, he's
done a lot for your career and he made sure
fighters get got paid well. But this Turkey is on
a different level. Like what you know reports that Bud
got fifty million against Canelo. Canelo got a buck fifty
(10:53):
And do you wish you maybe was part of this era?
Speaker 6 (10:56):
No, not really. I mean I'm grateful for whatever I
got in my life. Yeah, you know, I don't never
really count nobody else's pockets, never be happy to do that.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
What was it?
Speaker 8 (11:06):
What was your take on on on Bud's performance against Canelo?
Did you see that coming in? Who did you pick
to win that fight?
Speaker 6 (11:12):
I thought Canelo was gonna win because he's too strong,
Like I just thought he was gonna walk him down
and was gonna try to box him, and then it
was gonna give it to Canelo, like on a close fight,
just because he was the bigger fighter. But No, Crawford
did his thing like he did a beautiful performance.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
You forught him in the Amateurs?
Speaker 6 (11:28):
Yeah two times? Two times? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Who won those?
Speaker 6 (11:31):
I won the first one, that he won the second one.
But I felt like I want.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Both fighters always feel like that. I always feel like.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I was gonna ask you, what's the fight that keeps
you up at night? Like what's the one you wish
you could run back?
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Man? Keep them? That fight was like, that was my
first loss, and I was thirty three and oh before that,
so I never dreamed about like losing. So when I lost,
I felt like somebody died in my family. Like that's
how bad it was.
Speaker 7 (11:57):
Damn.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah, did Floyd do that to a generation? I feel
like Floyd did that to a generation Floyd being undefeated
and made boxes feel like you gotta be undefeated to
be great.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
Nah. I never really cared about being undefeated, but it
was like my first loss. It was tough, like you
know what I mean, Like the first time losing. I
knew it was a possibility I could lose because I
was finding another great champion like myself. But I just
felt unstoppable. So when when I lost, it was like dang,
I learned something about myself.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
So how did you recover and reset from that?
Speaker 6 (12:26):
I just took a year off and came back and
knocked somebody out and then got about it. What a
fight was that? Brandon Reals?
Speaker 8 (12:34):
Oh yeah, yeah, Brandon was tough. I never you never
seen Brandon get knocked out like that. That was vicious.
Who was somebody that you wish you would have fought
out from your era that you didn't?
Speaker 6 (12:44):
Just Floyd pack Ya, That's about it, Floyd and Pa. Yeah.
I feel like I thought everybody else besides Crawford, but
I thought him in the amateurs, right, But I really
thought every single body in my generation.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
Did you Did you ever try to make a fight
with pack Yo back when you were at.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
When he fought Thurman, they off for they offered him
mere Thurman. Yeah, they said you want to fight Daniel
Thurman and he picked he picked Thurman. Wo.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
Yeah, it was never an option.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Well, when I thought Matisse and he thought, uh Canelo.
Remember I was the core main event. I was told
if I beat Matisa, Remember, I was like you was
underdog again. Nobody thought I was gonna win, but they
said if I won that fight that they were setting
it out for me to fight Fluid, but it just
never happened.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Damn, Which fights you think to find you as a fighter.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Everybody always want to talk about the losses, Which one,
which was which win? You think to find you a fighter,
you had to show people. This is why Danny Garcia
it needs to be in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
Which fight would be?
Speaker 6 (13:42):
Well, the mere Con fight, I was eight to one underdog. Damn, yeah,
I was eight one under dog. I remember when I
came back to my room. My friend was laying the money.
He put ten thousand on me. He was laying on
them on the bed. I remember at the.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
MB who was that.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
That's my friend Eddie Freddie. Yeah, he mean like eighty thousand.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
Jesus.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
He was just laying on the money and I was like, damn,
I need a piece of that. Because I didn't really
make a lot of money. I just took it because
I was just trying to be great. But they said
I got lucky on that fight. But then I came back.
I beat Morales again, I beat Judah and Brooklyn and
then they fand me the Matisse.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
That was the defining fight in my opinion, because I.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
Was then underdog again and I went in there and
I beat him and I was like, what you say?
Speaker 8 (14:31):
And he was knocking everybody out. Yes, coming off a
big knockouts, that was a big win.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
And you talked earlier about taking time off of mental
health reasons. What did you learn about yourself during that
break that fight and could never teach?
Speaker 6 (14:44):
That's a good question. You just got to be like
I was always a warrior, Like I was worried about
stuff Like I just I learned that I can't. I
can't save everything, you know what I mean. I can't
change the world as much as you want. Like you
try to help, you know, you try to do this,
You try to do that. I just try to Yeah,
(15:07):
I can't save the world. And basically, like I just
try to be living the moment. That's it because most
of the stuff you're worrying about is like stuff that
never happens. And I don't know. I was always like that.
I just be worrying thinking about.
Speaker 7 (15:18):
Things that anxiety is.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Yeah, I just be if I gotta fight, I just
be thinking about it every day. I can get my
mind off the damn fight. And I'm thinking that I'm focused,
but I'm really just psyching myself out. As soon as
I go in the ring, it just go away. But
I just hate that feeling, like you know, it's like
you can't get that thought off your head.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
You feeling like that now?
Speaker 6 (15:38):
No, I feel good now.
Speaker 9 (15:39):
But look though, say you do lose, is that retirement
gonna be reversed? Like now I gotta fighte person.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
I gotta win. I can't lose. I can't lose. The
way I've been training and the way I've been the
way I've been preparing myself, I can't lose. There's no
way I could lose this fight, gotcha? I mean, you know,
but nah, why didn't you want your last fight in Philly?
(16:06):
I actually tried to do it in Philly. We actually
tried to do it out front at the Art Museum,
like first time ever. It wasn't enough time and then
I would have to wait till like next year, and
that would have been on another layoff, two year layoff,
waiting around again. It just didn't just didn't have enough
time to get it done.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
And it's not just like your last fight.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
You're doing it, like you mentioned earlier on your terms,
your your part on a millions dot co which your
fight is gonna be streamed on now. Pay per view
has been tough. Piracy is killed pay per view of Mars, right, Like,
what what? What made you make that decision and believe
in this in this company millions dot cold to streamed
your fight.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
I'm just taking a leap of faith, man, that's it.
That's it, just taking a chance. I've been taking chances
my whole career, you know, so I'm gonna take a chance.
It's gonna be on my own show. Have a bet
on myself basically, what.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
You're gonna do when you're retired, Like, how do you
plan to spend that? What you're going to do?
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Have fun?
Speaker 5 (17:06):
To raise his kids?
Speaker 6 (17:07):
That's it, raised my kids have fun. And I got
my boxing promotion too, So I'm still going to be
promoting boxing.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
And you're in the music and you got your own
music and parans for music.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Yeah, with your little sisters, Yeah for sure. My sisters
got dreams. So I'm always gonna support their dreams and
to be there for them.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
What about your kids boxing? If they want to box,
would you support that?
Speaker 6 (17:28):
Yeah? I let them fight. I let them fight. It's
the fastest way to him, right, I can teach him
how to fight.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
Teach you how to fight.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
The funny thing you said about marketing too, I was
thinking about it. I'm like, that was mad people and
surely that know how to market themselves and don't look
moofie though, like Gilly the Willows.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
Kevin Hart, Yeah, but.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Before they was all serious member but not Kevin Hart.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
Serious and Gilded the Chicken Man though, but he.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Was serious about that.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
We was Gil Now he's been in himself. He was
always like that, you know, funny laughing around. But you
know in Philly is just like gotta be tough. Yeah,
it's just how people. It's how they talk, they teach people,
or how you raised.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
Are you worried or about like I know you want
to retire, but do you get scared like that? Once
I'm done with this, it's really over because this is
your whole life. You've been boxing is what's seven years old?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Years old? Like, do you get sed Uh?
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Sometimes I think about it, I'm like, Dan, what I'm
gonna do now?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
It kind of defined you.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
But at the end of the day, my health is
my wealth, and that's the most important thing to me.
As long as I'm healthy and I'm good, I know
I can always make money or make deals or something
like that. You know what I mean. I just want
to leave the game in my brain, right, I don't
want to be all punchdog and stuff or yeah, I
mean that's the real stuff.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
And then you got baby cads and you got so
you definitely want to be.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Learn to my kids and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
You don't want to.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Be that way.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
Who been taught you on the business side of box?
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Your side? Like I said before, well, my pop always
told me by real estate. Okay, so like even like
back in Philly, like and when I first turned pro, Oh.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
No, I mean the business side of just boxing.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Oh the business side oh really, just me and my
dad I mean, and then our Haymen, And that's pretty
much it. That's the only person I ever worked with,
like talking real businesses, Angel Garcia and now Hayman. That
was it. It was just us three, like the whole run,
that whole run of all the people off thought. That
was just me Angel and omen.
Speaker 7 (19:34):
When you start making real money in the rent.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Well, I mean my first million dollars in twenty twelve,
when I thought Eric Morales and then after that, like
I'll made two million, three million, And when you when.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
You seen Floyd create his own promotion company back then
and just do it on his own.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
That may not make you think, you know what, let
me do that because Floyd.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
It seemed like Floyd just took a leap of faithor
and sai, I'm gonna do all this on myself and
created a brand doing it. Is that part of the
inspiration to do what you're doing now?
Speaker 6 (20:00):
I mean Floyd's inspired me in ways he has, definitely,
But I always wanted to do my own promotion. I
always wanted to do like have my own fight or
my own stable and things like that.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
How difficult is that?
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Because it from the outside it seems like I just
promote myself and go to the fight and do that.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
But how difficult is it? Break it down? What it actually?
Speaker 6 (20:21):
It's probably better off just being a fighter, to be honest. Really, Yeah,
like you signed to a good promoter and they got
a good TV deal or something, and they paid for it.
That's probably the best way to go because remember you
the promoter. You gotta put out the money. You gotta
pay for the production, you gotta pay for the ambulance
in the back. You gotta pay for everything. So if
(20:41):
it don't sell.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
For this fight?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
How much thinking about it?
Speaker 5 (20:53):
How much? How much do you know?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
You don't got to give us exact but how much
you think around you have to put out for this
fight right here?
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Half a million, six hundred thousand.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
And did you make it back yet with the pre
sales and all that yet?
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Well yeah, we we we have. Yeah, we're there. Yeah,
we're there, We're there. So I'm saying, we get some
good buys and we uh, we get some good walkings.
We we we were in the green, we straight.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
So you would have rather done this with a PBC
or our top ring, go to the zone or somebody.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Like I would? I would I love to have done
like them streaming.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Yeah I'm tied of this.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
No, no, like I was. Still would have did it
the same way, but if they would have used their platform,
but it just wasn't enough time, you know, and then
the millions came around there they will give you shares
of the company and stuff like that. So I'm like, hey,
I got to think of like a businessman. Now. You
never know, in ten years they might be a billion
dollar company own I own some shares of the company,
they sell it and I'm good, absolutely.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
But how do you focus with because you're training for
a fight.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Yeah, But then on the business side, you're like, man,
I hope they say, gotta get I.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Gotta I got to make sure that.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
Well, my god, Mike right here, he's my partner.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
He so he uh, he take care of mayesterday.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
I must be. So it's going good. Yeah. So uh
it's tough, but I try not to worry about it
because I gotta worry about fighting and then whatever happens
after and I just deal. I'll deal with it then.
But the most important thing for me is getting his win.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Have you got any advice?
Speaker 8 (22:25):
Have you talked to al Hayman at all before this
fight or about what you're doing?
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Yeah, he knows everything. He knows everything.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Did he give you any advice? Like what did he say?
Speaker 6 (22:33):
It was just you know, well he just told he
just told his attorney to make sure that I'm good, like,
don't let nobody like basically, don't let nobody dirty.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
How did your pops feel when you told me you
wanted to retire? Was he even the person that might
have came to you and been like, yo, no.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
He wanted me to fight ten more times. You never
want me to stop every time he just touched me, like,
hey man, I can't believe it. I'm like, not over, Bob,
don't worry, We're still here.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
I didn't tell you when you first told him, though.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
I don't think he believes me. But he does. But
he don't because he loves boxing like he loves him
more than me. You know, boxing, He just it gave
us everything, you know what I mean, It just changed
our lives. So for me to say I'm not boxing
no more, like damn, you don't want to do something
to change your life.
Speaker 9 (23:26):
But life after boxing, he said, I'm gonna grab my
grandkids and train young one.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
You know, when you look at a lot of boxes,
a lot of boxes get disrespectful when it comes to
the match, right. I mean, we didn't see him talk
about people's mother's heritage.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
We didn't see some nasties.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
Inviting them to the genitals.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Crazy but they do anything.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
The self fights. But you never got there. How come
why would you say that you never did that.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
I don't think that's my personality, to be honest. I'm
just kind of like I'm the type of person I
just like that show you in the ring. I just
I don't know how people got energy, like losing weight
and everything, like right now I'm thirsty, I'm hungry, So
I don't even know how people be having all that
strengthen talking crazy and stuff. So it's just Piba is
(24:12):
just your personality.
Speaker 8 (24:14):
Would you go to Puerto Rico is a country that
they loved boxing? Obviously you fought there one time a
long time ago. Do you want to tap in more
to that, like culture? Because one thing they show love
even the X champions, retired champions, like the trend Dad,
the Kotos, they be making appearances.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
All over there.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
They love fighters, Like have you ever thought about like
exploring Puerto Rico a little bit more?
Speaker 6 (24:34):
I thought about moving there. Really I should have moved
there ten years ago. And I'm Puerto Rican. You can
still do it, how to speak Spanish and everything to speak.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
I was.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
So when I went to school, it was like I
didn't there was no like Puerto Ricans in my school
or nothing. It was just like I went to school
like blacks and whites. It was like mixed. And then
I grew up like it wasn't no Puerto Ricans in
my neighborhood. So and then like it's like New York.
A lot of New Yorkers don't speak Spanish either.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
If you don't he's black, but I'm black, but you're
all black.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
My cousin the Puerto Ricans ever want you to they
would be like, nah, man, I want you us.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
They just can't understand how I can't speak Spanish, like
when I'm in Puerto Rico or something, how you can't
speak Spanish. I'm like, bro, see way you can't speak English. Yeah,
So I'm like, you can't speak English because you live
in Puerto Rico. I can't speak live in America. And
(25:44):
he was like and he was like, damn, I never
thought about that. He was I never thought about that.
I was like, yeah, I never thought about that.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
To now, when it's all said and done, how do
you want people to describe Danny see at a box
of a businessman or just a kid who survived the
screecher Phieling Just inspiration.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
I want to be like a role model to all
the people anybody in the world who got dreams and
dreams and dreams come true. If you never uh never
give up, just then inspiration and somebody who never gave up.
Speaker 8 (26:18):
Let's say you you win big on Saturday at the
Barclay Center and you retire in the ring. What who
would bring you back out of retirement? Like what fight
or what fight you would say? You know what, pops,
We're gonna do it one more time.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
I mean, like ten millions.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
So who So it's a number, it's not a fighter number.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Ten million. The risk gotta be worth a reward.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Odebt T is a good number.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
I wanted to ask you about the terror Squad into existence.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
You told Terrence to stay at one sixty eight and
just fight Canelo again. Yeah, like if he came down
to one sixty you said, you know, that would be
a I don't know if you used.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
The words problem honestly hungry on there. I said, yeah,
they are hungry, but they're lesser names, you know, So
why you just came off winning a big name fight.
You're gonna go fight guys, some guys at wont sixty
that people really don't know, gotcha. I just say go
for the go for the big name again and get
(27:18):
Now you're gonna get more money because you beat.
Speaker 8 (27:20):
Him to fight again. They're talking about it. I think
that at one six they won't beat mega fights.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
Yeah, you know what I'm saying, but he wants to
conquer it.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
He wants to be undisputed in four weight classes at
one sixty. He feels like that's a legacy that nobody
would ever chase. But that's tough because then you gotta
fight everybody to be undisputed.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
Well, I think they're about to unify, right like the
one dude?
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 8 (27:45):
Maybe if they all fight and one guy is undisputed,
then he only gotta fight one fight do it.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
But he's thirty eight though, man.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
Like I mean me, I'm gonna do it again. I'm
probably I'll do it against Canlo, the biggest name again
and make him a lot of money again. And you're
going to be the east side this time.
Speaker 8 (28:02):
Yeah, that's just how so you go, You'll go off
to one six day and fight Canelo if that presented itself, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
Twenty for Canelo because I know you're throwing that money.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
That's why if I don't believe you.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
But nah, I'm not even thinking about.
Speaker 8 (28:19):
That thinking about Saturday.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
By this Saturday, we wish you the best. Brother.
Speaker 7 (28:24):
What's the platform again.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
It's called Millions dot com and it's on Direct TV. Okay,
so if you got Direct TV, you can watch it
on there. So Millions dot co is the platform.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
Millions.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
When New York pull up to the bark Lak Day
the eighteenth, get there, get your tickets and like we said,
we wish you the best of luck.
Speaker 7 (28:40):
Brothers, congratulations or whatever it is you decide to do.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
Man, thank you, thank you, appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
It's Danny Garcia, We appreciate you. It's the Breakfast Club.
Good morning, every day waiting click up, the Breakfast Club.
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