“They’re Backing This Guy To Beat Me.” Ryan Garcia Speaks Out Against Oscar De La Hoya and Bernard Hopkins

By: Sean Crose

Things are clearly not going effectively at Golden Boy Promotions. When one among your star fighters may be very publicly confronting your two head honchos at a press convention, there’s motive for concern. And certainly, Ryan Garcia confronted each Oscar De La Hoya and Bernard Hopkins on Thursday on the last press convention for this weekend’s bout between himself and the exhausting hitting Oscar Duarte Jurado in Houston. Things apparently got here to a head earlier this week when co-promoter Hopkins, by way of Fight Hype, acknowledged: “I will see how Ryan looks and then make my personal decision on whether he should fight again.”

“One thing that’s been on my heart,” Garcia mentioned after stepping as much as the rostrum on Thursday, “are the statements that Bernard made, where he’ll decide if I should continue boxing after this fight. He don’t decide that. My coach does. My team does. Everybody that grinds with me day in and day out, that’s who decides, and ultimately God decides, not him. Nobody was telling him when to stop boxing, he stopped boxing at 45. Kudos to him but he don’t determine that.”

The junior welterweight then turned his ire on De La Hoya. “Oscar’s saying we misinterpret what they say,” Garcia acknowledged. “It’s plain English. I didn’t hear anybody speaking any language I don’t know. It’s very clear to me that they’re backing this guy (Jurado) to beat me, just like they thought (Romero) Duro was going to beat me. He was the next Filipino star, (now) they saying he’s (Jurado is) the next Mexican star. I put everything into this fight. For the first time I’m extremely committed in a long time.” Garcia then centered as soon as extra on Hopkins.

“Bernard said he’d never lose to a white boy,” he mentioned, “then Joe Smith Jr knocked him out of the ring. Last time I checked, Joe Smith Junior is white.”

De La Hoya later indicated to Fight Hub that he discovered Garcia’s conduct infantile. “When you’re dealing with kids,” he mentioned, “it’s really hard to get across that message, and then you have Ryan saying this and that. It’s all B.S.” Garcia, some of the common fighters on this planet, was defeated by Gervonta Davis his final time within the ring. Still, the loss to Davis is the one loss to be discovered on the exhausting hitting Californian’s resume. His battle with Jurado can be broadcast stay Saturday evening on the DAZN streaming service.