Ryan Garcia Drools Over Alex Pereira’s Amateur Record, Says ‘Would Love to Train’ With the UFC Champ

Allan Binoy | 12/09/2024
Ryan Garcia Drools Over Alex Pereira’s Amateur Record, Says ‘Would Love to Train’ With the UFC Champ

Ryan Garcia was watching Alex Pereira’s amateur boxing highlights and has seemingly been mesmerized by the UFC light heavyweight champion’s prowess. In the amateurs, the boxers have to wear bigger gloves and head guards which makes it hard to hurt the opponent. However, ‘Poatan’ was knocking out with such vigor that even Garcia seemed impressed by his power.

Instead, he responded to the video of Pereira on X and even had a request of the Brazilian maverick.

“People don’t understand how hard it is to knock out people cold in the amatuers I would love to train with Alex Let’s make it happen”

 

Garcia is currently serving a one-year ban from boxing for having tested positive for performance enhancing drugs for his fight against Devin Haney. So, after USADA found traces of Ostarine in his blood sample, they decided to ban him from competing.

Since that time, Garcia has hinted at wanting to fight in the UFC since he can’t be boxing competitively. And if he wanted to, Pereira would be the perfect person to train him for it.

That said, Garcia  still hasn’t given up on his boxing career. He is still actively looking to set up big fights when he returns.

Garcia vows to ‘Make Boxing Great Again’

KingRy is just counting down the time till he can return to the ring again. He has to serve the entire year’s ban and there is no way around it.

As Garcia waits for him to become eligible to fight again, he believes his return will revive boxing and make it exciting again.

“I can’t wait to fight I miss being in the ring 7 months till I bring excitement back to boxing I made boxing great again!”

 

‘KingRy’ will be allowed to fight again in April 2025. Till then, he can only look on as the likes of Devin Haney and Gervonta Davis set up their next fights. When he eventually returns, the boxer will want his rematch against Devin Haney as well as one with ‘Tank’ Davis. He does want all the smoke but as he serves the ban, it would be better if he lay off it.

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Allan Binoy

Allan Binoy is a MMA journalist at The SportsRush. Taken to the sport in 2015, thanks to a certain Conor McGregor, Allan has himself dabbled in the martial arts. And having graduated from Loyola College, Chennai, with a degree in English Literature, he has learnt to use his love for language to have a voice in the MMA community. Allan has been writing about the gladiatorial stories for more than three years now and has pursued excellence at a number of reputable media organizations, covering every UFC PPV in the last couple of years. In addition to this, the southpaw is also a semi-professional soccer player for Diego Juniors FC in Pune, playing in the Pune Super Division League.

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