Ryan Garcia is practicing hard for his upcoming fight against Gervonta Davis. But most of the prediction polls for the fight, are against him, making him the underdog of this bout. So, Garcia has been getting ready to prove the world wrong, and lately, he has also been going to a lot of podcasts and has been talking about how he’s ready and dedicated. He has been trying to sell the fight and stating that he is going to give his all on the night of April 22.

Recently, he also made his appearance on Mike Tyson‘s podcast, ‘Hotboxin’ with Mike Tyson. He also revealed who is the fighter from history with whom he’d have loved to train with.

Now, Ryan Garcia has stated that his favorite boxer of all time was Muhammad Ali. But in a recent episode of Tyson’s podcast, he gave an answer that even surprised Mike Tyson. But later Garcia also explained the reason why he chose that particular individual in this context.

Ryan Garcia on his favorite boxer to train with

The conversation took this direction as Mike Tyson was talking about Ryan Garcia’s upcoming fight and refused to talk about his future plans after the Gervonta Davis bout. And then Tyson asked Garcia about his choice, if he could train under any boxer from history, then who would be his first choice?

Garcia thought about it for a second and then replied, “I would wanna train with uh, Sugar Ray Robinson.” Tyson  was a bit surprised by the answer and needed to check a second time, and then Garcia claimed that he was sure about his answer. Tyson said, “Wow.”

But then Garcia gave him the reason why he chose Robinson. He said, “Just because one of my favorite fighters I looked up to was Muhammad Ali and he said, ‘Sugar Ray Robinson was the best fighter ever.’ So I’m thinking I thought you were.”

Tyson saw the reason in Garcia’s statements and agreed with him. And he even talked about Robinson’s commendable record. Moreover, Tyson emphasised the fact that only a flawless record cannot be the judge of ‘greatness’. Garcia also promised his fans to recreate the Muhammad Ali moment while knocking out Gervonta Davis.

Mike Tyson talks about how different today’s times are

Now, Tyson talked about Robinson’s achievements inside the boxing ring but today the definition of being ‘great’ has changed a lot. It is appreciable that Robinson fought so many fights, but in the modern era the standards are different, according to Tyson. As you can easily make 10 million dollars off one fight, and that’s more than what Sugar Ray Robinson made in his entire career.

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He also talked about how inflation blows up many fighters and they can never really overcome it. Tyson revealed that it definitely took a toll on him, as he wasn’t checked by reality and he thought that his hedonistic lifestyle will continue to go on. But then everything had to stop eventually.

So, Ryan Garcia is trying to follow in the footsteps of all the great boxers before him as he’s going to take part in what could be one of the biggest boxing fights of this era. Are you excited about Garcia vs. Tank next week? Let us know in the comments section.

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