"They Wanted A Bad Guy, So I Became One" - Ryan Garcia - #1097

0:00I'm fascinated by you saying that you don't think when you're in the ring.

0:04What's happening?

0:05I'm just picking up on cues, really.

0:08And then, kind of like there's these instincts and intuition that are just kind of there, you know, like, oh, maybe like you kind of get a feeling where, okay, I need to start putting pressure on this man, or I need to, you know, move a little bit.

0:21It's just like kind of momentum shifts that you're kind of noticing little by little.

0:24And then there's obviously times where I'm thinking, like, sometimes I'll just have like mantras in my head, like that I've done in camp, you know, stay focused.

0:32Like the last fight the whole time when I was fighting him, I would just say, like, stay focused, stay focused, stay focused.

0:37You know, so it was just like little things that I would say in my mind, but I'm not really necessarily thinking.

0:43Not thinking.

0:46But thinking.

0:46But yeah, of course.

0:48Does that mean when you look back on a fight, how much of it can you remember?

0:54The pivotable moments.

0:55Like my last fight, I remember I started getting comfortable in like the 11th round, just messing with the guy, smacking him, looking at the trainer, and then lowering my hand a little bit and then, you know, tasting her right hand.