September 11, 2024 • 17 mins
This week's guest are two former world champions as we have Danny Garcia and Caleb Plant who will both be on the undercard of #CaneloBerlanga. We dive deep with both as they aim to get a big fight in the future if they can get past their respective oppenents.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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the description below. Okay, all right, thanks, Hey Caleb, how
(01:37):
you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Oh good man, how are you good?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Good? Revenge to where it is? Seems like that's one
of the one of the hottest things out right now.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Yeah, you know, after dropping the brand basically right before
the Derell fight or right after the Derell fight, you know,
people have really taking to it and you know, showing
it a lot of support. And uh, you know, I
think the biggest difference in Revenge Tour and maybe some
of the merch the other fighters sell is, you know,
it's its own brand. It's a lifestyle brand. It's not
(02:10):
just you know, Caleb Plant merch. You know, it's something
you can wear to dinner, where to the club. You know,
you can be fly wherever.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
So yeah, and you know, I was gonna ask you
about that later on, but I saw that, I saw
the shirt, and I was gonna ask you, Now, did
it catch you by surprise that the merch, the demand
for the merch is so high. And what is the revenge.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Tour for you mean in twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Four, I mean maybe a little bit about surprise how
quick it's taken off, and you know how much support
has gotten, and you know how fast it sells out
every time we drop. And I think people gravitate towards
it because I feel like they know that it's a
(02:53):
genuine life that I've lived. You know, I'm not just
saying that, I'm not just talking about it, but I've
literally lived the life of getting my revenge on life.
And you know, it sounds negative when you first think
of revenge, but we all come, or a lot of
us come from a place where we didn't have very
much growing up, and you know, we wanted more for ourselves.
We wanted to go out into the world and try
(03:15):
and you know, get revenge on the fact that we
didn't have much or all the times we've been told no,
all the times we've said, you know, been told we
weren't good enough or couldn't accomplish something. And then on
top of that, just all the trials that life throws
that you you know if you know my story, obviously
you know things I've been through, and we've all been
through things, and for life to hand us that, but
(03:37):
you know, for us to keep our nose nose down
and just keep grinding, keep putting one front of in
front of the other, until one day you look up
and you know you live in a nice house, or
you're accomplishing the things you want to accomplish and getting
where you're trying to get headed.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
You know that's what revenge is about.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
So that's right, and you know that that's a perfect
segue into actually my first question where I was talking
about before the Uska Taggi fight in twenty nineteen, you
had seventeen fights, some of them were on Fox Sports one. Hey, listen,
I'm not going to be here in front of you
and lie to you and tell you that I wasn't
a little critical about some of those performances because it
(04:13):
felt like you you could have been better, and whether
it was the opposition or whatever the case may be,
it just didn't happen. But once you won the world title,
it felt like things just took off of you, both
in and out of the ring. I think the same
day you got engaged. I believe it was because I
was there at the Sony Theater. Did you feel the
(04:37):
same way that things took a turn for the better
once the title came into play, and that fight specifically,
because it seemed like it almost like you was carrying
something and then once you won the title, it was
like it all came off.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I mean even you know, twenty seventeen on one prospect
of the year, so I was still you know, doing
good and undefeated, had you know, quite a few knockouts.
But after winning the world title, uh, you know, I
wanted to do that for Aliyah.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
You know, that's a promise I made to her.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I feel like maybe like a weight was lifted off
my shoulders because that just really meant so much to me.
And while it was giving me fuel, maybe at the
same time, it was putting pressure on me too. And
so you know, I've heard from other coaches, you know,
after you win a world title, a fighter's confidence goes up,
(05:31):
and you know I definitely felt that, and.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
You know, just going on a roll since then.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Obviously I lost this to Canelo, and that's when I
really thought, like, man, I needed to get on.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
My revenge tour.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
And you know, go from place to place, stop to
stop until you know, maybe one day me and Canelo
can run it back. I can write that wrong. Obviously,
I'm not focused on that right now because I got
a big fight in front of me. But yeah, I
feel like it kind of lifted a weight off my
shoulders being able to fulfill that promise and you know,
move on.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Well, yeah, and now the last two years, you've been
a one fighter year fighter. This is and this last
one's coming off of eighteen months. If I'm not mistaken,
by the time you step in the ring, was it
due to like inactivity because of personal stuff that you
had going on, or fights that just didn't materialize, or
a little bit of both.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Well, I think it just took a little bit of
time with PBC locking in the new deal that they have,
and so you know, I'm not the only fighter who's
had to deal with that and do that.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
So I've really just was focused on the things I
can control.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
You know, it's no sense in focusing on things that
we have no control over, So you know, focusing on
things like what's my attitude every day, you know, me
going to the gym and getting better, me making sure
I'm keeping my weight in check, going to physical therapy
every week, working with my massage therapists every week. You know,
this goes on and on, and just focusing on the
things I can control and knowing eventually my time will come,
(07:05):
and when it does, I need to make sure I'm
in the right spot and.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Then I'm prepared. So that's right.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And then since the Canulo fight more fans, there's been
an abundance of fans that are now interested even more
in seeing you fight. Now with the recent issues of
fighters trying to provoke you in public and you trying
to be in the public so that people can see
you and talk to you and engage with you. Like
(07:31):
how hard is it for you to try to balance
that now, because you know you have you're trying to
raise your profile, but then at the same time you
got some idiots that try to provoke you in a way.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Yeah, I mean, it's not even so much like I'm
trying to be in the public eye and be around
the fans. It's like, you know, I'm a boxing fan,
so I'm a fan of quite a few of these
top fighters, and so you know, I live the same
day over and over and over like ninety percent of
the year, which is like going to the gym, coming home,
spending time with my family. So every once in a while,
(08:03):
you know, me and my wife would like to pop
out and go to some of the bigger fights and
you know, just enjoy ourselves. And then obviously you've already
spoken on certain people. Certain fighters want to I'm not
sure what it is. Really, maybe they want to fight
with me, so they're trying to piss me off, and
maybe it'll provoke me and to wanting to fight them.
But you know I've said before another interviews that's that's
(08:25):
not the way to get a fight.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
If you want to fight, fight me, you know.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Go get your buzz up, go raise your value, get
a couple of fights, get put in the rankings, and
you know, you can ask any boxing thing in the world.
I'm not hard to make a fight with. So but
you know it doesn't bother me. I'm gonna keep popping
out and who my wife going to these fights. And
you know, I can't control how other people act. I
(08:49):
can just control how I act. And that's all I
got to say about that, really.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, and then so you're fighting Trevor McCombe undefeated. He
wants to be taking seriously. Hasn't really for anybody on
your level? Is it hard for you to get up
for a fighter like that since his resume isn't as
good as yours.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
No, nope, no, because that would be me focusing on
him and what he has going on. And you know
I'm focused on me and what I have going on.
And you know, this is a big fight. WBN WBA
Interim title is on the line. He's undefeated, a fighter
who's undefeated and wants to stay that way. Like you said,
he wants to be taken seriously, and this is his
(09:31):
big moment. And now remember what it felt like for
me in my first big moment against Jsei Uskotsiki, in
the amount of.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Motivation. I had the pressure and the weight on my
shoulders of wanting to perform well and prove myself.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
So I'd be a fool to make a mistake by
underestimating him and focusing on who I want to fight
next and what I want to do next. You know
a million fighters have done that, and you know I
say this all the time, but it's happened a million
times in boxing. You know, I don't want to be
a million to one, So I'm focused on them. I'm
taking them serious, all right.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
And then at the end of the night, what do
you want fans to leave with in regard to your
performance on September.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Fourteenth, just and the new and the new WBA Interm
champion and looking to put on a you know.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Handle business in fashion.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Whether that's just a vicious ass whooping over twelve rounds
or whether that's you know, a knockout or stoppage. Either way,
I just want people, you know, I don't want but
people will be walking away saying that's a bad word there.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, all right, listen, Kleive. I appreciate your time and
I wish you the best of luck on September fourteenth.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Oh man, thank you.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Okay, Danny, what's up man?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
How you doing?
Speaker 5 (10:53):
I'm doing good.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Hey. Listen.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
First, you know I've seen you in Beverly Hills, but
I want to applaud you for for that moment you
had in the ring after the Benavidez fight, because that
was that took a lot of guts and there's a
ton of people that will be better for it because
you did that in person.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
So I just want to tell you that, Oh, thank you.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Hey listen, So from twenty twenty to now you only
fort once, what was life like during that time outside
of the ring, and did you accomplish the things that
you wanted to accomplish during that period?
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Absolutely? I had two more kids, so nothing better than that,
you know. I had my daughter Palace and my boy
Danny first. Yea, so I had two kids. You know,
I started my own boxing promotion, you know, always looking
for new business ventures, meeting new people, traveling the world.
(11:53):
So I definitely, you know, still busy and just waiting
for me to get my time to fight again.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
But was definitely busy. I just wasn't sitting around for sure.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
The Laura fight seemed like this was the fight that
kept on being quote unquote made, and then it just
never happened for one reason or the other. Was there
a point where you said, in your mind, if it
doesn't happen by X date, that's it, I'm moving on
to something else.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
You know, I actually felt like if I didn't fight
this year, I was maybe I just probably wasn't gonna
fight no no more, you know, because I didn't want
to come off like more than two years and fight.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
So that was my mindset.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
I said, look, if I don't fight this year, then
maybe I just knocked home, probably just think about retiring.
But you know, but I still had to fight in me.
I still want to fight a lot, but I just
didn't want to keep waiting.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yeah, yeah, no doubt. Out of all the businesses that
you're in, I know, I've seen the gym, the barbershops,
the apartments and all that for the now the promotion,
which one has has your attention to most before eventually
transitioning into a full promoter mode later on.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
I like all of them. You know, they all have
the good and bad to it.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
You know, like the real estate is good because you
know they steady income, but you got to keep up
with it. You know, you got upkeeping, you gotta wearing tear.
Some tennis don't pay. So it's definitely a lot. It's
not really easy. People think like real estate is easy,
but it's really not like you have to be on
top of it because if you're not, then it'll just
fall on top of you. Basically, so that you know,
(13:31):
real estate is a tough business. Is not like people think.
It's just go by our real estate and it's good.
You have to keep up with it. And then the
boxing know is different because it's the business. It's hard
negotiating with fighters and dealing with family members and trainers
and people who.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Think they know it all. So it's definitely good and bad.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
But the good part is you know, you giving the
young guys a platform, you're motivating them, and you're building careers.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
So it's definitely good and bad to everything.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Yeah, no doubt. Now, listen, you're thirty six. I know
a lot has been made of of that. Been in
the game for a while, seventeen years now, the physical part.
So look, I just finished doing twenty five years in
the Marine Corps. I know that there's times where you
get to that fifteen sixteen year part and you're like,
it gets harder to wake up in the morning and
(14:22):
do things and do it to the extent that you
want to. When you started your camp early early on,
were there moments that you caught yourself like maybe shortening
a workout or something and not going as hard than
realizing after oh shit, like I need to I need
to step it up a little more.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Yeah, definitely, you definitely got to ease your way into it.
I would say, definitely, recovery takes longer. Like before, I
just work out hard and spar ten rounds. The next
day I feel I could do another ten, So definitely.
Now you gotta take your ice baths, you gotta do
your stretches, you gotta eat the right food to make
sure that you recovering, because that's the most important thing.
(15:01):
But everything else is still the same, you know, like
the skills, the speed, the power, everything's still there. I
would say the only thing that really changes just the recovery.
It takes a little bit longer to be carever, so
you got to make sure that you do that extra.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
So you can recover and perform at perform at a
high level.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
All right, And then you know, there's a there's a
lot of people that are still heavily interested in Danny Garcia.
Within the Latin community. People were still excited to see
you fight and be out there. When you hear stuff
like that, what's your immediate reaction to to that? When
that people even at this point twenty twenty four, they're
(15:40):
still wanting to tune into Danny Garcia.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
You know, it's a blessing.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
A lot of my fans have real fans I would say,
like my fans are hard for boxing fans, They're just
not people who just following you because you're somebody. Like
my fans really love boxing, they really love They're really
Danny Garcia fan. And you know I didn't they was
blessed them for the last ten years or twelve years
(16:06):
in championship fights. So I mean, I give them all
I had and they want some more. So it's like
a drug, you can't get enough of it.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah, and when September fourteen.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Comes comes and goes, what's the lasting impression you want
to leave on that night?
Speaker 6 (16:25):
You know, I want to give them a all. Make
sure that I'll I have no regrets. You know, I
want to win. I want to win the middleweight championship,
but most important to come my health.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Bet and gave them all. I gave the fans a
great fight.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
And then lastly, you know, and I have to ask this,
w lose a draw, is this your last fight?
Speaker 5 (16:48):
I would say every fight is my last fight. That's
how I'm looking at right now.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
You know, every fight I look at it is like
my last fight, and that's to motivate me. Just like
you can't look at tomorrow because tomorrow is not prominent.
So that's how I'm looking at this. I'm just taking
a one month friend at the town, one day at
the time.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I can respect that. Hey, listen, Danny, I appreciate your time.
Thank you so much, and I wish you the best
of luck in September.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Thank you, I appreciate it all right.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
And salad.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
It's the box of my salvage soon now
Worldwide, every weight class. It's low is he in? Uh huh,
Whiskey fight uh huh. It's the Boxing Rush Shower shown
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man through the drive rights a frist sight that the
prize right hands taped up and gloves todd sight they made.
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the description below. Okay, all right, thanks, Hey Caleb, how
(01:37):
you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Oh good man, how are you good?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Good? Revenge to where it is? Seems like that's one
of the one of the hottest things out right now.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Yeah, you know, after dropping the brand basically right before
the Derell fight or right after the Derell fight, you know,
people have really taking to it and you know, showing
it a lot of support. And uh, you know, I
think the biggest difference in Revenge Tour and maybe some
of the merch the other fighters sell is, you know,
it's its own brand. It's a lifestyle brand. It's not
(02:10):
just you know, Caleb Plant merch. You know, it's something
you can wear to dinner, where to the club. You know,
you can be fly wherever.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
So yeah, and you know, I was gonna ask you
about that later on, but I saw that, I saw
the shirt, and I was gonna ask you, Now, did
it catch you by surprise that the merch, the demand
for the merch is so high. And what is the revenge.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Tour for you mean in twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Four, I mean maybe a little bit about surprise how
quick it's taken off, and you know how much support
has gotten, and you know how fast it sells out
every time we drop. And I think people gravitate towards
it because I feel like they know that it's a
(02:53):
genuine life that I've lived. You know, I'm not just
saying that, I'm not just talking about it, but I've
literally lived the life of getting my revenge on life.
And you know, it sounds negative when you first think
of revenge, but we all come, or a lot of
us come from a place where we didn't have very
much growing up, and you know, we wanted more for ourselves.
We wanted to go out into the world and try
(03:15):
and you know, get revenge on the fact that we
didn't have much or all the times we've been told no,
all the times we've said, you know, been told we
weren't good enough or couldn't accomplish something. And then on
top of that, just all the trials that life throws
that you you know if you know my story, obviously
you know things I've been through, and we've all been
through things, and for life to hand us that, but
(03:37):
you know, for us to keep our nose nose down
and just keep grinding, keep putting one front of in
front of the other, until one day you look up
and you know you live in a nice house, or
you're accomplishing the things you want to accomplish and getting
where you're trying to get headed.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
You know that's what revenge is about.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
So that's right, and you know that that's a perfect
segue into actually my first question where I was talking
about before the Uska Taggi fight in twenty nineteen, you
had seventeen fights, some of them were on Fox Sports one. Hey, listen,
I'm not going to be here in front of you
and lie to you and tell you that I wasn't
a little critical about some of those performances because it
(04:13):
felt like you you could have been better, and whether
it was the opposition or whatever the case may be,
it just didn't happen. But once you won the world title,
it felt like things just took off of you, both
in and out of the ring. I think the same
day you got engaged. I believe it was because I
was there at the Sony Theater. Did you feel the
(04:37):
same way that things took a turn for the better
once the title came into play, and that fight specifically,
because it seemed like it almost like you was carrying
something and then once you won the title, it was
like it all came off.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I mean even you know, twenty seventeen on one prospect
of the year, so I was still you know, doing
good and undefeated, had you know, quite a few knockouts.
But after winning the world title, uh, you know, I
wanted to do that for Aliyah.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
You know, that's a promise I made to her.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I feel like maybe like a weight was lifted off
my shoulders because that just really meant so much to me.
And while it was giving me fuel, maybe at the
same time, it was putting pressure on me too. And
so you know, I've heard from other coaches, you know,
after you win a world title, a fighter's confidence goes up,
(05:31):
and you know I definitely felt that, and.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
You know, just going on a roll since then.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Obviously I lost this to Canelo, and that's when I
really thought, like, man, I needed to get on.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
My revenge tour.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
And you know, go from place to place, stop to
stop until you know, maybe one day me and Canelo
can run it back. I can write that wrong. Obviously,
I'm not focused on that right now because I got
a big fight in front of me. But yeah, I
feel like it kind of lifted a weight off my
shoulders being able to fulfill that promise and you know,
move on.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Well, yeah, and now the last two years, you've been
a one fighter year fighter. This is and this last
one's coming off of eighteen months. If I'm not mistaken,
by the time you step in the ring, was it
due to like inactivity because of personal stuff that you
had going on, or fights that just didn't materialize, or
a little bit of both.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Well, I think it just took a little bit of
time with PBC locking in the new deal that they have,
and so you know, I'm not the only fighter who's
had to deal with that and do that.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
So I've really just was focused on the things I
can control.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
You know, it's no sense in focusing on things that
we have no control over, So you know, focusing on
things like what's my attitude every day, you know, me
going to the gym and getting better, me making sure
I'm keeping my weight in check, going to physical therapy
every week, working with my massage therapists every week. You know,
this goes on and on, and just focusing on the
things I can control and knowing eventually my time will come,
(07:05):
and when it does, I need to make sure I'm
in the right spot and.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Then I'm prepared. So that's right.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And then since the Canulo fight more fans, there's been
an abundance of fans that are now interested even more
in seeing you fight. Now with the recent issues of
fighters trying to provoke you in public and you trying
to be in the public so that people can see
you and talk to you and engage with you. Like
(07:31):
how hard is it for you to try to balance
that now, because you know you have you're trying to
raise your profile, but then at the same time you
got some idiots that try to provoke you in a way.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Yeah, I mean, it's not even so much like I'm
trying to be in the public eye and be around
the fans. It's like, you know, I'm a boxing fan,
so I'm a fan of quite a few of these
top fighters, and so you know, I live the same
day over and over and over like ninety percent of
the year, which is like going to the gym, coming home,
spending time with my family. So every once in a while,
(08:03):
you know, me and my wife would like to pop
out and go to some of the bigger fights and
you know, just enjoy ourselves. And then obviously you've already
spoken on certain people. Certain fighters want to I'm not
sure what it is. Really, maybe they want to fight
with me, so they're trying to piss me off, and
maybe it'll provoke me and to wanting to fight them.
But you know I've said before another interviews that's that's
(08:25):
not the way to get a fight.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
If you want to fight, fight me, you know.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Go get your buzz up, go raise your value, get
a couple of fights, get put in the rankings, and
you know, you can ask any boxing thing in the world.
I'm not hard to make a fight with. So but
you know it doesn't bother me. I'm gonna keep popping
out and who my wife going to these fights. And
you know, I can't control how other people act. I
(08:49):
can just control how I act. And that's all I
got to say about that, really.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, and then so you're fighting Trevor McCombe undefeated. He
wants to be taking seriously. Hasn't really for anybody on
your level? Is it hard for you to get up
for a fighter like that since his resume isn't as
good as yours.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
No, nope, no, because that would be me focusing on
him and what he has going on. And you know
I'm focused on me and what I have going on.
And you know, this is a big fight. WBN WBA
Interim title is on the line. He's undefeated, a fighter
who's undefeated and wants to stay that way. Like you said,
he wants to be taken seriously, and this is his
(09:31):
big moment. And now remember what it felt like for
me in my first big moment against Jsei Uskotsiki, in
the amount of.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Motivation. I had the pressure and the weight on my
shoulders of wanting to perform well and prove myself.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
So I'd be a fool to make a mistake by
underestimating him and focusing on who I want to fight
next and what I want to do next. You know
a million fighters have done that, and you know I
say this all the time, but it's happened a million
times in boxing. You know, I don't want to be
a million to one, So I'm focused on them. I'm
taking them serious, all right.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
And then at the end of the night, what do
you want fans to leave with in regard to your
performance on September.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Fourteenth, just and the new and the new WBA Interm
champion and looking to put on a you know.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Handle business in fashion.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Whether that's just a vicious ass whooping over twelve rounds
or whether that's you know, a knockout or stoppage. Either way,
I just want people, you know, I don't want but
people will be walking away saying that's a bad word there.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, all right, listen, Kleive. I appreciate your time and
I wish you the best of luck on September fourteenth.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Oh man, thank you.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Okay, Danny, what's up man?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
How you doing?
Speaker 5 (10:53):
I'm doing good.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Hey. Listen.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
First, you know I've seen you in Beverly Hills, but
I want to applaud you for for that moment you
had in the ring after the Benavidez fight, because that
was that took a lot of guts and there's a
ton of people that will be better for it because
you did that in person.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
So I just want to tell you that, Oh, thank you.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Hey listen, So from twenty twenty to now you only
fort once, what was life like during that time outside
of the ring, and did you accomplish the things that
you wanted to accomplish during that period?
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Absolutely? I had two more kids, so nothing better than that,
you know. I had my daughter Palace and my boy
Danny first. Yea, so I had two kids. You know,
I started my own boxing promotion, you know, always looking
for new business ventures, meeting new people, traveling the world.
(11:53):
So I definitely, you know, still busy and just waiting
for me to get my time to fight again.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
But was definitely busy. I just wasn't sitting around for sure.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
The Laura fight seemed like this was the fight that
kept on being quote unquote made, and then it just
never happened for one reason or the other. Was there
a point where you said, in your mind, if it
doesn't happen by X date, that's it, I'm moving on
to something else.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
You know, I actually felt like if I didn't fight
this year, I was maybe I just probably wasn't gonna
fight no no more, you know, because I didn't want
to come off like more than two years and fight.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
So that was my mindset.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
I said, look, if I don't fight this year, then
maybe I just knocked home, probably just think about retiring.
But you know, but I still had to fight in me.
I still want to fight a lot, but I just
didn't want to keep waiting.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yeah, yeah, no doubt. Out of all the businesses that
you're in, I know, I've seen the gym, the barbershops,
the apartments and all that for the now the promotion,
which one has has your attention to most before eventually
transitioning into a full promoter mode later on.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
I like all of them. You know, they all have
the good and bad to it.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
You know, like the real estate is good because you
know they steady income, but you got to keep up
with it. You know, you got upkeeping, you gotta wearing tear.
Some tennis don't pay. So it's definitely a lot. It's
not really easy. People think like real estate is easy,
but it's really not like you have to be on
top of it because if you're not, then it'll just
fall on top of you. Basically, so that you know,
(13:31):
real estate is a tough business. Is not like people think.
It's just go by our real estate and it's good.
You have to keep up with it. And then the
boxing know is different because it's the business. It's hard
negotiating with fighters and dealing with family members and trainers
and people who.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Think they know it all. So it's definitely good and bad.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
But the good part is you know, you giving the
young guys a platform, you're motivating them, and you're building careers.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
So it's definitely good and bad to everything.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Yeah, no doubt. Now, listen, you're thirty six. I know
a lot has been made of of that. Been in
the game for a while, seventeen years now, the physical part.
So look, I just finished doing twenty five years in
the Marine Corps. I know that there's times where you
get to that fifteen sixteen year part and you're like,
it gets harder to wake up in the morning and
(14:22):
do things and do it to the extent that you
want to. When you started your camp early early on,
were there moments that you caught yourself like maybe shortening
a workout or something and not going as hard than
realizing after oh shit, like I need to I need
to step it up a little more.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Yeah, definitely, you definitely got to ease your way into it.
I would say, definitely, recovery takes longer. Like before, I
just work out hard and spar ten rounds. The next
day I feel I could do another ten, So definitely.
Now you gotta take your ice baths, you gotta do
your stretches, you gotta eat the right food to make
sure that you recovering, because that's the most important thing.
(15:01):
But everything else is still the same, you know, like
the skills, the speed, the power, everything's still there. I
would say the only thing that really changes just the recovery.
It takes a little bit longer to be carever, so
you got to make sure that you do that extra.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
So you can recover and perform at perform at a
high level.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
All right, And then you know, there's a there's a
lot of people that are still heavily interested in Danny Garcia.
Within the Latin community. People were still excited to see
you fight and be out there. When you hear stuff
like that, what's your immediate reaction to to that? When
that people even at this point twenty twenty four, they're
(15:40):
still wanting to tune into Danny Garcia.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
You know, it's a blessing.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
A lot of my fans have real fans I would say,
like my fans are hard for boxing fans, They're just
not people who just following you because you're somebody. Like
my fans really love boxing, they really love They're really
Danny Garcia fan. And you know I didn't they was
blessed them for the last ten years or twelve years
(16:06):
in championship fights. So I mean, I give them all
I had and they want some more. So it's like
a drug, you can't get enough of it.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah, and when September fourteen.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Comes comes and goes, what's the lasting impression you want
to leave on that night?
Speaker 6 (16:25):
You know, I want to give them a all. Make
sure that I'll I have no regrets. You know, I
want to win. I want to win the middleweight championship,
but most important to come my health.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Bet and gave them all. I gave the fans a
great fight.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
And then lastly, you know, and I have to ask this,
w lose a draw, is this your last fight?
Speaker 5 (16:48):
I would say every fight is my last fight. That's
how I'm looking at right now.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
You know, every fight I look at it is like
my last fight, and that's to motivate me. Just like
you can't look at tomorrow because tomorrow is not prominent.
So that's how I'm looking at this. I'm just taking
a one month friend at the town, one day at
the time.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I can respect that. Hey, listen, Danny, I appreciate your time.
Thank you so much, and I wish you the best
of luck in September.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Thank you, I appreciate it all right.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
And salad.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
It's the box of my salvage soon now
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