Danny Garcia says his body feels refreshed after taking an unexpectedly long hiatus.
Danny Garcia speaks to boxing media about his September 14 fight with Erislandy Lara at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena — a fight that’s been a long time coming. Here, in some excerpts from Garcia, he speaks about feeling fresh after an extended hiatus and believing he’ll be in great condition to put on a great performance come fight night.
“You can expect to see the same Danny Garcia. I feel good, I been feeling good sparring, been feeling good training. I really feel like nothing’s really changed, if anything the two-year layoff helped me. You know, my body feels recovered, I have no injuries, my mind feels good, my body feels good so I feel like we’re going to see a great Danny Garcia that night.”
“He’s definitely a tricky fighter, he’s one of the best boxers you can get in the ring with, skill wise. I got my work cut out for me but we’re training, I got the right game plan, we’re going to go in there and execute.”
“Going into that Benavidez fight, actually before that fight I think Lara came up in the conversation when I was speaking to my team and I said ‘look, let me get this Benavidez fight to test the water at 154’ and then I think Lara agreed to fight me at 155 but two years went past and — the fight was always agreed to it just took time because, I guess, the Showtime thing...”
“Yeah, definitely. I know if I feel the pain — I know I’m 36 — he definitely got to feel the pain at 41, waking up all sore. But I feel good. I feel rejuvenated, I feel like I haven’t lost a step really. I’m in here sparring with the young guys, veterans, everyone.”
