{"id":329504,"date":"2025-08-09T03:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T03:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/329504\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T03:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T03:07:12","slug":"ryan-garcia-reflects-on-loss-to-rolando-romero-as-he-seeks-out-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/329504\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia reflects on loss to Rolando Romero as he seeks out rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Garcia was recently on social media<\/a> talking to his fans about his upcoming plans for his boxing career. Garcia, who\u2019s had another fallout with his promoter Oscar De La Hoya over wanting a rematch with Rolly Romero, says he still intends to pursue that fight so he can avenge his loss.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really want that Rolly rematch, I can\u2019t let that be what it is,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cI want to get that back. He had the title so right now he got elevated so why not go for the world championship and get my lick back and be at my best. I just want to fight him when I\u2019m at my best, that\u2019s it. That\u2019s all I care about.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want somebody to beat me when I\u2019m at my absolute best and if you do, great\u2026I want that rematch, there was a rematch clause, so let\u2019s get it.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Garcia was then asked about how he\u2019s healing up from his recent hand surgery, he had this to say.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s recovering much faster than my first surgery, which is surprising because I got more stuff done on this one,\u201d said Garcia. \u201cSo my hand\u2019s been doing a little bit better. I think I\u2019m going to start hitting the mitts and bag work just a little tiny bit, nothing heavy. Just starting off touching the bag, touching the mitts. I\u2019m already hitting the gym\u2026I been training almost everyday and just trying to get my body prepared so when I start boxing training, which is a lot more intense, that I\u2019m kind of ready to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garcia would then be asked about how his injured hand affected his performance against Romero, which he admitted it did.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly my right hand was having problems the whole time,\u201d Garcia responded. \u201cMe and Derrick had to make a lot of adjustments the whole camp because of my hand. And then sadly, like really sadly, a week and a half before the fight, my last sparring, I cracked this dude with a left hook, wobbled him, but I check my hand because I knew something happened, I checked my left hand after \u2013 my whole knuckle was swelled up and it never really came back down. Anything that touched it kind of just flared it up so it was kind of like \u2018damn bro, this is just my luck.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it was just something you have to go through as a fighter, bro. There\u2019s nothing you can really do at a certain point because I\u2019m not trying to pull out of a fight a week and a half [before]. But I still believed in myself, I still believed maybe I can find a victory here in this circumstance, but it was kind of hard because not only does Rolly hit hard, he didn\u2019t really give me chances to hit him. He really fought unlike he\u2019s ever fought before.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s awkward but he also didn\u2019t want to throw no punches. He didn\u2019t jump in at me, he didn\u2019t fight like he fought other people. He didn\u2019t do none of that \u2018cause he know that there was a threat there, too. So it was just a weird fight, the circumstances I was in, it was just hard for me to get the job done.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I\u2019m not going to let that put me down and everybody say I\u2019m not good or I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m doing because I lost to Rolly. Like ya\u2019ll can make fun of Rolly all you want but Rolly is not the worst fighter. He\u2019s very awkward. Does he make mistakes? Yes. But this time he didn\u2019t want to make a mistake and he fought relatively safe and that\u2019s just what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Garcia was recently on social media talking to his fans about his upcoming plans for his boxing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,118593,4496,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-329504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-interviews-quotes","10":"tag-boxing-news","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114996605390971436","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}