Ryan Garcia Opens Up About Split From Eddy Reynoso
Ryan Garcia will no longer be coached by Eddy Reynoso and the undefeated fighter explained why.
Garcia is set to return to the ring against Emmanuel Tagoe but on February 11, Garcia named Joe Goossen his new head trainer and announced his split from Reynoso. Now, 10 days later, the former WBC interim champ revealed Reynoso didn’t have time to train him.
“Eddy didn’t have the time to work 100%. He’s a very busy trainer, and I understand,” Garcia told ESNews (via BoxingScene). “Sometimes you have to make your change for the better. It’s nothing against him. He’s a good trainer. I won five fights with him by knockout, so there’s nothing wrong. I’m going to another level, and I need a full-on, 100% [trainer]. It was never bad blood. It was about dedication and time, you know?”
For Ryan Garcia, at this stage of his career, he says he needs someone who is solely focused on himself. Garcia also had nothing but praise for Goossen after his first week of training with him.
“It’s amazing,” Garcia said. “Joe is a very dedicated trainer 24/7, watching all my mistakes if I make any and correcting them. He’s on top of them at all times. He doesn’t just see my talent because a lot of people would be just like, ‘damn, he’s so quick, he’s so fast.’ But Joe, he has it down to what I need to work on. I’m always open-eared and here to listen. You know me. I’m dedicated and always ready to go. I train from pretty much from six o’clock [a.m.] to nine o’clock at night every day. It’s more than a nine to five. It’s six to nine.”
However, along with those reasons, Ryan Garcia’s father, Henry explained to Boxingscene.com his son wanted to strike out on his own because he wanted independence, his own gym, and to build a better brand.
“I think it’s time. It’s like when you have an apartment – you get tired of renting and you want your own place. It’s almost like that. The main thing is that Ryan did not want to feel that he was, you know, in somebody else’s, you know, he felt that his brand can hold up, just like Floyd Mayweather Jr. when Mayweather decided to move away from Top Rank and start his own thing. It’s almost the same thing. He just didn’t want to feel confined to one area where you have to wait until they decide to work out and this and that. We don’t want that. We want to have our own place, and what’s wrong with that?
“Ryan is becoming a strong man and making his own decisions. That’s the bottom line, and we have to respect that. He’s not a kid anymore. He wants to make his own decisions, and it’s not a bad decision. We’re still in contact with everybody [at Team Canelo].
“We have love for Canelo, Eddy, and the team,” said Henry. “They are beautiful and awesome people. I can’t emphasize that enough. We respect them and there are no hard feelings at all. We thank them for all of their assistance and are appreciative for everything they’ve done, but I guess when you know we have to make some changes, that’s something that’s decided.”
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