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00:00This is a good, clean, professional fight.
00:12Obey my command to protect yourself at all times. Touch books.
00:19Alan Garcia, he came back last February 21st to get a decision win in six rounds over Juan Centeno.
00:26And he says, look, I had to deal with the situation of being knocked out.
00:31He said, while everyone was trying to skirt the question and the conversation about boxing, I had to go head on.
00:38And while everybody said, stay away from social media, Tim, he says, I dove head first into it because I wanted to know who was on my side.
00:45What were people saying?
00:46And he says, the hardest thing, though, was seeing myself turned into a meme with a parachute falling into the canvas.
00:53And he says, but all that motivated me.
00:56To be where I am today.
00:58The internet always say, the internet is undefeated.
01:01There's no doubt about it.
01:03And there's no need to be, you know, digesting all of that stuff on the internet.
01:08There's no need to be reading all that negativity.
01:11Although he did it, he said it made him stronger.
01:13He went back to the drawing board.
01:14But what I really like about it is, is he said that he tested himself inside the gym before coming out.
01:20And I remember back when I was, when I fought with Ruslan Pavonikov and I came to the gym.
01:27It was a surprise.
01:28You had Joel waiting on me.
01:32And he said, guess who's here?
01:35Matisse.
01:36Oh, that was your first one back, Tim?
01:39That was my first day back in the gym.
01:41Crazy.
01:41Training camp.
01:42Joel put Matisse in the ring with me, man.
01:44I got hit on the chin with a left hook.
01:47I flew about three or four feet to the right, to the left.
01:51And it was then when he realized, you know what?
01:53I got what it takes.
01:55I'm all right.
01:56Yep.
01:57Because I wasn't afraid.
01:58Yeah, he turned that into a Hall of Fame career.
01:59Absolutely.
01:59I wasn't afraid.
02:00Absolutely.
02:02And, you know, that's the thing.
02:03How are you going to react after you get knocked out?
02:05Are you going to be gun shy?
02:06Are you going to be, you know, thinking before you throw?
02:09And that nanosecond, Tim, could be the difference between landing or getting clipped.
02:14Oh, absolutely.
02:14That hesitation, that moment of hesitation makes all the difference.
02:19And Garcia right now is just laying it along those ropes.
02:23As you can see, that's where the knockout actually occurred,
02:25along those ropes that he was just on.
02:29Garcia, good speed, hand speed.
02:31I would think of him as a boxer puncher.
02:34Very innovative inside the ring, defensively responsible.
02:37Good counterpunching off the back foot as well.
02:40Likes to come forward as well and land combinations.
02:43He says he's going to slow down with the combinations.
02:46Maybe it might do one or two, maybe three punches.
02:50But he was used to doing four, five, six, getting a little bit too greedy.
02:56And he said, I left myself open the last time inside the ring.
02:58So I definitely corrected that.
03:00I'm going to be more selective with my punches.
03:03Punch your head.
03:03Punch your head.
03:04Punch your head.
03:04Punch your head.
03:05Punch your head.
03:05Punch your head.
03:06As you can see here.
03:07The referee, Edward Coyante, says, hey, you guys punch out of that hole.
03:12Get yourself out of it.
03:13I like that.
03:15Nice jab from Alan Garcia taking his time here in the early rounds.
03:20See him using angles right there.
03:21It's a nice little step around to get outside that strong side of Medina.
03:26See Medina already.
03:27He's just looking to close the distance, come behind his jab,
03:30and he's looking for that right hand.
03:34You can tell Medina, he's a pretty good athlete, man,
03:37the way he's moving away from some of these punches.
03:39Time!
03:42Last September 2024,
03:45Gloria Alvarado was wearing a microphone
03:46as part of our ESPN Plus coverage,
03:49and this was her reaction to Alan Garcia getting knocked out,
03:52as surprised as the entire boxing world was.
03:55I need you to be sharp.
03:57He's got to walk into it.
03:59There you go.
04:00Oh!
04:00Two!
04:01Yes!
04:03No!
04:04Four!
04:05Five!
04:06Six!
04:07Seven!
04:09Eight!
04:11Nine!
04:12Ten!
04:20Tim,
04:21Gloria Alvarado took this young man into her home as a teenager,
04:25so she said,
04:27it's like my son,
04:28her daughter, right-hooked Roxy, is a fighter as well,
04:31but for her, it was like her son was getting knocked out.
04:34Yeah, absolutely.
04:35I mean, she had to remain professional at that moment, man.
04:38Sometimes it's hard, man, not to be emotional,
04:40because you fall in love with these fighters in a sense to where you see them every single day.
04:45You spend more time with the fighter than you do your actual family.
04:48The dedication, everything that they've gone through,
04:50you know his deepest thoughts and dreams,
04:52and now you see him almost like get crushed, right?
04:55He's back in the ring now.
04:57He has another opportunity.
04:58And, you know, kudos to top right for not releasing him,
05:01because usually what happens is the promoter will see that and say,
05:04look, that's damaged goods.
05:05We don't want any part of that.
05:06So, kudos to them for actually keeping him.
05:10Nice body work here in the second round from Alan Garcia on the other side,
05:14Cristian Medina Garcia.
05:16Well, he made his pro debut at age 21 under the watchful eye of Rigoberto Alvarez,
05:23the brother of Saul Canelo Alvarez.
05:25So, he has a high pedigree of training and the same style.
05:30He's a counterpuncher.
05:31That's what they teach in that gym.
05:33It's to counterpunch, to make your opponent make mistakes and then make him pay.
05:37So, he's waiting on Garcia to get a little too greedy
05:40and then to come back with a shot of his own.
05:43He's coming forward.
05:44He's trying to force a mistake.
05:46I can tell Medina, he's looking for that big shot as well.
05:49You know he's watched that video that we just got done watching, I'm sure,
05:52a hundred times.
05:53And, like, man, if I land with something he doesn't see, I think I can stop him.
05:58So, you can see him trying to hunt him down, cutting the ring off,
06:01trying to get close.
06:03I wish he would have come behind the jab and kind of disguise his offense.
06:07However, he's looking for that big right hand or an uppercut.
06:12Look at the body of Medina.
06:14You see all that redness because Garcia's trying to set up his shots.
06:19Good defense, though, for Medina so far.
06:22Yeah, you can tell.
06:23I mean, look, again, how you move to your left, how you move to your right,
06:26how you're avoiding shots.
06:27That tells me a lot about your athleticism and, one, your awareness inside the ring.
06:32You know, Medina, he's not bad.
06:33He's taking some shots to the body.
06:35However, he's doing a good job of avoiding big shots upstairs.
06:38Garcia talked to us about how, you know, he works so fast
06:46that he never thought that would be the downfall for him.
06:49You see him get kicked with a nice right uppercut.
06:51He's hurt here early in round number two.
06:54And he gets tackled, but he was holding on for dear life.
06:57And he was doing the right thing when holding on for dear life.
07:00And he's going to have to hold on some more because, trust me,
07:02I'm telling you, Medina, that's what he's looking for, that knockout.
07:06That uppercut taught him, right?
07:07That it sure did.
07:08And now a left hook catches him.
07:10And he's got 35 seconds to finish the job here in the second round.
07:15And Garcia is still hurt.
07:18But he's doing what he needs to do to stay in this fight.
07:22Tim, and that's hold.
07:23Absolutely.
07:24Utilize survival tools, man.
07:27Tie up, step in, smother, punch every now and then, be defensive-minded.
07:32Right now, and that's what you're seeing from Garcia.
07:35Okay, stop, stop.
07:36Talk about Medina waiting for his opportunity.
07:39Now you see Garcia in the southpaw stance,
07:41but he just barely held on here in round number two
07:46as he got clipped by a right uppercut on the inside.
07:49And let's listen in to Glory Alvarado.
07:52For you, that guy, right?
07:53Hey, look, you've got to work out those inches, man.
07:56But you've got to keep that hand right back in a minute, all right?
07:58Don't worry about that.
07:59Go get your shit back, but don't lose it.
08:01Don't lose it, all right?
08:03I told you on the inside, Medina was looking for two punches.
08:07Looking for the overhand right
08:08and also looking for the uppercut on the inside.
08:11Let's see what punch lands here.
08:12Little hook there.
08:14Oh, nice little hook on the inside.
08:16He just shortened his shot up.
08:17He's along the ropes.
08:19You saw Garcia squared up with him, left himself exposed.
08:23Boom, nice little, it might be like a 45 almost with the right hand.
08:26Half hook, half uppercut.
08:30Split nose guards.
08:31He never saw it.
08:32Man, just bouncing off the ropes right there.
08:34That was beautiful work right there from Medina.
08:38He knew he had his man hurt.
08:39However, you saw the survival tactics of Garcia trying to hold out, hold, do whatever he can to survive that last round.
08:48But dang, what a shot.
08:50Hardo, team Alvarez over there in Guadalajara, Jalisco, El Vikingo, the Viking.
08:58They call him that because he's afraid of nothing.
09:01And that's a nice tattoo on his chest that says Vikingo.
09:04Look, Garcia now coming out in the softball stands thinking that that's the right thing to do,
09:09to try to punch him a different angle or give a different look.
09:12However, I don't think it's smart because that right hand of Medina ain't no joke.
09:17Puts you in a closer to that range, right?
09:20Or does it get you further away?
09:22Well, it's southpaw versus orthodoxy.
09:23If you really think about it, you're looking to land that particular punch.
09:28You beat a southpaw with the right.
09:29Absolutely.
09:31Nice flurries there from Garcia.
09:33Now Alain lands a nice right.
09:38See, it's these moments.
09:39I mean, Garcia wants him to get back.
09:40He showed that she's showing his heart right now, but I don't know if that's smart.
09:43I mean, look, that will be me inside the ring.
09:46I'm not going to lie, but look.
09:48Because I'm going to be pissed off because you just hurt me,
09:53and I want to get some get back.
09:54But, look, those combinations by Garcia is great, but you've got to be careful.
09:59He can get caught in between.
10:01Medina is looking for one shot in between one of those punches.
10:04Maybe something wide.
10:06We talked about Medina coming from that Alvarez camp
10:09where, you know, Eddie Reynoso, Canelo,
10:13their philosophy as well as Rigoberto, his trainer,
10:16is you counterpunching.
10:18You either wait for a mistake or you make your opponent make a mistake.
10:21Nice left.
10:22The same exact place he was at.
10:24Get off them ropes.
10:26You got Garcia standing along those ropes.
10:27He was along the ropes when he got knocked out last time.
10:30Right there.
10:30Yeah, I mean, come on.
10:32And from the southpaw stands.
10:35Nice deep left.
10:36I like Garcia.
10:38Yeah, he playing Russian roulette, man.
10:45Being along those ropes.
10:47See, you know, along those ropes, you only have two ways to go.
10:50I mean, look, if you step in and tie up, you can go left and go right,
10:54but you can't go back.
10:55Your first line of defense is gone,
10:58which is your feet to be able to maintain distance
11:01or get out of range of a shot.
11:03Good defense there from Garcia.
11:04He's popping and exiting.
11:06Yeah, but look at that.
11:06He's desperate.
11:07I'm telling you, he's desperate, man.
11:09You can't lunge against a counterpuncher like Medina.
11:11Absolutely not.
11:12And the guy that's there, he's calculating.
11:14He's waiting on the right shot to line up that right shot down the middle
11:18when he least suspected.
11:20Again, it's the punches you don't see is the ones that hurt you.
11:24And Garcia told us as much.
11:26He's like, look, I thought I saw it coming,
11:29and then boom, next thing you know, I'm seeing white.
11:35Two-one combination there from Garcia.
11:38If nothing else, he's switching things up here in the third round.
11:41Yeah, but I will tell you, I'm impressed with the fact that he's still poised
11:46in the sense to where he's not fearful.
11:50You know what I'm saying?
11:50Some guys, they get in there, and they become so timid
11:53and start running around the ring and scared to get a hit.
11:56I mean, come on, man.
11:57I like the fact that he's actually here to fight.
12:00Your body's not supposed to pass your legs, okay?
12:02You stay uniform, brah.
12:04Uniform.
12:05Don't jump into anything.
12:06All right?
12:07I didn't like that shot, the last one.
12:08How you feeling?
12:10All right?
12:11Good.
12:11You're doing beautiful boxing, okay?
12:13But your fucking hands, well, they got to be up, all right?
12:17You cannot drop them after you land the shot and drop your hands.
12:20Okay.
12:20Stay to the center.
12:21I keep telling you, stay to the center.
12:22Okay?
12:23It can't be hard to stay to the center.
12:24What?
12:25You got to control the center, right?
12:27All right.
12:27Touch them and move to the side.
12:29Not bad.
12:29Right?
12:29Nice little forward shift right there into the orthodox stance from Garcia,
12:36getting his head on the outside right here, going down with a body shot.
12:40See what else he got going on here.
12:46Whoa, nice angle change right there from Medina.
12:49Pretty nice uppercut.
12:51That's a beautiful move right there.
12:52Just catching Garcia, leaning forward, out of position,
12:55just with that small, little minor angle change right there.
12:59He was able to place that uppercut beautifully on the chin of Garcia.
13:03Gloves that Alain Garcia's wearing, Jackson's pre-model logo.
13:07What is that?
13:08That's, that's, is that?
13:09Oh, punch out.
13:10Is that Canelo's gloves?
13:12No.
13:12What is that?
13:13No, Canelo's gloves are no boxing in the life.
13:16Hey, I don't know what, I ain't never seen those gloves before.
13:19You got a story on those?
13:20Oh, nice body shot.
13:20Body shot.
13:22Nope.
13:22Nice combination.
13:28And then Medina lands a nice counter uppercut.
13:32Medina, he wants, he wants Garcia to do some of the work for him.
13:36Again, Medina just conserving, conserving.
13:38He's taking a lot of punches.
13:39You know, every now and then he'll place a shot.
13:41Let's go, keep work.
13:42Let's work there.
13:43Let's work there.
13:43Pull your arm out.
13:44Pull your arm out.
13:45He's dependent right now on his toughness.
13:47Step back, step back.
13:47Just getting close.
13:48Keep putting pressure.
13:49He's trying to create an opening just with his presence.
13:52Get that arm out from his back.
13:54Pull it out.
13:54Pull his arm out.
13:55Pull his arm out, pull his arm out, pull his arm out, pull his arm out, pull his arm out.
13:59Body shot.
13:59Good body work from both hands.
14:01Exchange body shots.
14:03Good body work from Garcia in the inside.
14:10Good jab on the way out as well.
14:12That sets up the body shot from Garcia.
14:15See the defensive responsibility right there from Garcia.
14:17Again, I don't like him along those ropes.
14:19He needs to keep the fight in the center of the ring.
14:21Stop, step back.
14:22No more press address.
14:23Dr. Champ, Michaela Mayer, sitting next to Bob Arum.
14:28Who, as always, was here for the first fight of the night.
14:31Get that arm out of there.
14:32Get that arm out of there.
14:38Good inside fighting from Garcia here, but he stayed too long.
14:42Boy, he's mothering his shots right now.
14:46Again, and his feet are all over the place.
14:49He's squared up right now as well.
14:51All right, now he's giving that a little shoulder.
14:53There we go.
14:53And his hands were down.
14:55Stop, step back, step back, step back.
14:57And he's in the southpaw position.
14:58Let's see.
14:59Let's see what Medina does.
15:00I mean, look, very low output this round.
15:04He needs to get on some offense.
15:11Man, Medina just missed with that uppercut.
15:13Hold your arm out of there.
15:13Hold your arm out of there.
15:13You can tell Medina's in tip-top shape, too.
15:16Step back.
15:17I mean, he's not even breathing.
15:18And you can tell his game.
15:20He's just like, hey, I'm coming.
15:21I'm going to make you fight.
15:22I'm going to make you fight.
15:23I'm going to try to tire you out.
15:25It's been 11 months or so since you've been in the ring.
15:28And that's what he's hoping.
15:29He's hoping that Garcia tires.
15:35Fight in February and his comeback fight, Tim.
15:37But since the knockout has been that long.
15:40Yeah.
15:42And look, you've got to give Garcia credit coming back from that second round where he was hurt so badly.
15:48Yeah, he's taking the shots a lot more easier right now.
15:56And he feels like he's a boss right now as well.
15:58I mean, he swept the last two rounds.
16:00Pretty simple.
16:02Alan Garcia doing a lot of good work on the inside, Tim.
16:06Let's take a look at some of the body work that's been so effective for the fighter out of L.A.
16:11Yeah, you got Garcia putting some barbecue sauce on these ribs, baby.
16:14You know, straight right hands downstairs.
16:17Any opening, it'll tuck up in the high guard.
16:19What do you do?
16:20Come around it.
16:21There he is trying to tuck up in the high guard, leaving his body open.
16:25Oh, yeah.
16:27Double-fisted body attack.
16:29Hey, that's the way you slow down your opposition right there.
16:32That's the way you take some steam away from him.
16:34And also, you take some of that power away from his punches.
16:38This is five.
16:38This is five.
16:39All right, you've got the conditioning for 10 more, right?
16:42You've got this.
16:43It's here, too.
16:44Strong.
16:45Okay?
16:45Here.
16:46Here.
16:47Defense.
16:47Touch him, move.
16:48Touch him, move.
16:48All right?
16:50Touch him, move.
16:51Touch him, move.
16:52Got it?
16:52Touch him.
16:54He's desperate.
16:55He's going to come out with everything, okay?
16:57You've got to stay sharp.
16:57All right?
17:01I like that.
17:02Strong mentally.
17:03That's what boxing's about.
17:06Yeah, it's about throwing punches.
17:07You know, I mean, X's and O's, all the above.
17:10But, man, the mental got to be right.
17:13She told him right.
17:14Stay disciplined.
17:14Stay focused all the way through.
17:16Do not fall asleep for one second because he's looking for one punch.
17:19He already was rocked in the second round, held on for dear life.
17:24Alan Garcia was able to survive the second round and then found his legs under him and
17:29has been able to outbox Medina in rounds three and four.
17:33Yeah, but, yeah, have you noticed that none of those hard shots are really phasing Medina?
17:42Medina got a beard on him.
17:44Yeah, and then Garcia just went six rounds in a unanimous decision win against Juan Centeno,
17:50who's eight, 18, and four, which was a get-well fight.
17:54But, so he might not be popping like that.
17:57I mean, is it that you have to be set?
17:59What is it in terms of technique that you're seeing?
18:01Your feet, your feet, your feet.
18:01Your feet got to be right.
18:03That's what starts with the foundation, baby.
18:05I mean, he looked like he's digging into those punches and sitting down in those shots.
18:11Again, got to bring those knuckles down, man.
18:16Big slapping shots to the body.
18:18That's a nice left hook there from Garcia.
18:20He started turning those left hooks over.
18:24Knuckles down, man down.
18:27Good blocking.
18:29Oh, that body shot from Medina with the forearm.
18:32Yeah, but Medina, I mean, look, Medina's getting outworked, not working enough at all.
18:37Let's go. Step back. Stop. Stop.
18:38You know, when you're just looking for one shot and you think you're going to hit the man
18:41and he's going to fall and it doesn't go that way, what else can you do, Medina?
18:45What else can you do?
18:47He's got to be funky, cold, medina.
18:49He's going to have to do something.
18:51He's going to have to do something other than just walking forward and just taking a beat.
18:56It's like, let your hands go.
19:00Pull that arm out.
19:01Go. Pull that arm out.
19:06You see, he was bringing back old demons, right?
19:08And then he let off the gas and he allowed Garcia to have success.
19:12And now Garcia believes.
19:15He's like, I'm good.
19:17He's going down.
19:18Yeah.
19:18I got through this.
19:19Oh, no problem.
19:20Now, I got you.
19:22Let's work.
19:22Let's work.
19:23See, it's your job being Medina to make sure he don't believe that he can believe that he can win.
19:30He's got a lot more of those left hooks, does Medina, because Garcia has just been mowing him down the last few rounds.
19:38That body shot again.
19:39Dude, look at the red mark on there on that right side.
19:47That's a counter right from Medina.
19:51That was a nice shot right there.
19:53And you saw Garcia lean too far forward, and Medina makes him pay, and he's hurt for the second time in this fight.
20:01The best part for Garcia, it happened with eight seconds left.
20:06Tim, you took risks, and he paid the price for it.
20:09It's about time.
20:10I mean, if he let his hands go a little bit more, he'd be able to have more of those moments.
20:15All of the things you're doing with your hands tight, okay?
20:18That's what you're supposed to be doing.
20:19We're asking you to angle out with your hands tight.
20:22All right?
20:23You've got to pay attention.
20:25You've got one more round.
20:26Six rounds here.
20:27Six.
20:27So six.
20:29Is the six coming in?
20:30Six coming in right here.
20:32I need you to fucking box it in.
20:35You've got legs to move.
20:36Remember those mountains?
20:38Get the jitters out.
20:38You're good.
20:39Yeah.
20:39You've got legs now, okay?
20:41Just try to sit there and knock them out.
20:42Okay.
20:45Leaning forward, swinging wild, forward shift, boom.
20:48Gets clipped with an uppercut while he's leaning forward.
20:52See Medina plant that back foot.
20:54Ooh, lift him up with the uppercut.
20:55He was actually throwing a left hook at the same time.
20:58Look how far that left hook hand is down.
21:00My gosh.
21:03Again, getting a bit desperate.
21:06He's not being disciplined.
21:08You know, that's the problem.
21:09Garcia's rushing.
21:10He's trying to knock him out with one shot.
21:12You know, he's putting too much weight on the shot.
21:15He misses the big shot, and then he goes his body.
21:18Inertia takes him to a different way, you know, the same way,
21:21and then he gets clipped with an uppercut.
21:22It's ridiculous.
21:24Tim, what worries me in that round is the impression that Laura Burrell
21:28thought it might be the sixth and final round when it's an eight-round fight.
21:31We'll see if they figured that out.
21:35Yeah.
21:35But if she sends him out to be giving what you got,
21:38and all of a sudden you got six more minutes to fight.
21:42Well, that's why you got other cornermen in there to let you know,
21:44hey, we got two more, baby.
21:46We got two more.
21:47Let our amount work.
21:49You got nine minutes of action left.
21:51Yeah, but he looks fine.
21:52I mean, he looks fine.
21:53Even after that.
21:55Uh-oh.
21:55That's here in the left.
21:56There's a left hook and then a right uppercut from Medina.
22:00If Medina lets his hands go, this fight changes completely.
22:04Absolutely.
22:05Got it?
22:05Let's go.
22:08What else is he going to do if he's hurt?
22:11That's all I'm going to ask.
22:13What else is he going to do?
22:19I think Garcia feels safe being close.
22:23Being close to Medina.
22:27Because Medina hasn't made a pain.
22:29Yeah, the closer you are to your opposition, the safer you are, to be honest.
22:32It'd make it difficult for them to be able to create space to punch.
22:35But when you're sitting mid-range like that, you can get hit with those uppercuts.
22:40And Medina right there just missed off the mark with another right uppercut attempt.
22:46I only that six-foot-one, Rafael Espinoza, loves to be at this range.
22:50Yeah.
22:50And he's dangerous at that range.
22:53Absolutely.
22:54Nice left hook there from Garcia.
22:57Short shots on the inside.
22:58See, he'll get off and then he'll smother.
23:00Get off and then he'll smother.
23:01Good tactics right here from Garcia.
23:04Again, you see Medina trying to create some space for himself to be able to let his hands go off the ropes.
23:09See that mouth open of Garcia now.
23:19He's starting to use those legs, too.
23:25Good defense after that.
23:27Nice roll with the shot as well.
23:28That's a dangerous shot.
23:32If he misses it, but so far he's been able to connect both leaping left hooks.
23:38Oh.
23:38A war of attrition.
23:45Garcia coming in with his head.
23:47Making Tim Bradley proud.
23:49How you know?
23:51Good job, kid.
23:54He's just leaning forward, trying to keep some space.
23:58You can use your head to be able to justify.
24:00Oh, you can.
24:00If you put your head on his chest, you're able to keep a little bit of space for yourself.
24:04You leave yourself open for an uppercut.
24:06However, you can create space.
24:08Chavez used to do that a lot.
24:09Bring it to that little stroke.
24:20Take a deep breath.
24:21Hold it in.
24:26Just like that, but staying sharp after you punch.
24:29Watch his counters, huh?
24:30Yeah.
24:31He hit you in the back of the head, huh?
24:32Yeah.
24:32Okay.
24:33I need you to stay sharp, kid.
24:36All right?
24:37You're up.
24:37You're up.
24:38You're doing beautiful.
24:39He's winging him.
24:40He's winging him.
24:41I know, but you've got to stay sharp.
24:42You've got your timing's got to be there.
24:44You've got to catch him, okay?
24:45But your chin is up when you're fucking low.
24:47You need to stay sharp.
24:49All right?
24:51Garcia loved to hang around those ropes.
24:54You know, I don't understand why.
24:55And that softball position again off the ropes.
24:58But good defense for him.
25:04Great getting underneath those shots.
25:05Here he is.
25:06Roots his shot.
25:07Understands another shot is coming.
25:09It's good transitional work right here from Garcia.
25:14From offense to defense, back to offense.
25:18Right.
25:19Round seven of a scheduled eight-round fight.
25:23Bernardo Osuna alongside the International Boxing Hall of Famer,
25:26Timothy Bradley.
25:28Continuing great action.
25:30Nice left hand.
25:31He rolled a little bit with it.
25:33Medina did.
25:35Nice flush shot, though.
25:37That's a lead right now from Garcia.
25:39And he's putting his hands back up.
25:43He's going to have to.
25:44Body work from Alain Garcia.
25:48Now it's Medina putting in work.
25:50Hey, look.
25:52Medina tough.
25:54He coming to fight.
25:56Give me your gloves.
25:57Give me your gloves.
25:58He coming to fight, man.
25:59He's looking to land that shot, man.
26:02He knows he's getting out skilled.
26:06There's no doubt about it.
26:08He didn't want a box.
26:09He was like, no, I want to make it rough and tough.
26:11Oh, that's a right uppercut from Medina.
26:14And now Garcia enters on the right of his own.
26:16Man, Garcia would just be, I'm telling you, man.
26:18Hey, stop.
26:19Step back.
26:19He'd be playing Russian roulette, man.
26:21A lot of this stuff he ain't got to be doing.
26:24He's taking chances.
26:25Left and right.
26:25Look, he's throwing the right hand,
26:27and he's dropping the left hand.
26:29Head directly on the line.
26:31It's ridiculous.
26:31His nose is bleeding as he has a nice body shot.
26:34But, oh, he was blowing his nose.
26:37Now it's profusely bleeding.
26:39I don't know if that's blood from the nose of Medina,
26:41of Garcia on the forehead of Medina,
26:45or if it's a cut.
26:47It's from those exchanges where he's rubbing his face
26:52on the head of Medina.
26:55We saw him having trouble, Tim,
26:57blowing his nose between rounds,
26:59and now this is going to exacerbate that situation.
27:01Don't be blowing your nose in between rounds.
27:03Again, your eyes are starting to swell up,
27:05and I know it's a few more rounds ago,
27:07but, man, you're not supposed to blow your nose.
27:10Let it run out.
27:11Let the cut man do his job.
27:15And this is a situation where you see an energized Medina
27:19now that he sees the blood on the face of Garcia.
27:24And he can feel Garcia actually weakening because he's starting to tire.
27:37Hear that crowd, baby?
27:39Absolutely.
27:39They're into this now.
27:42Oh, that's a good right from Garcia.
27:44He sure was.
27:47Garcia got to stay tight, man.
27:49He got to stay disciplined.
27:50He can't get drugged into a firefight with his man.
27:53He got to keep boxing.
27:55Keep boxing.
27:56Using his legs, creating space for himself.
27:59Again, he can get caught getting wide.
28:01Getting a little bit too greedy.
28:03Pick his spots.
28:05You can see the blood of Garcia dripping on the body of Medina.
28:12Medina got to turn himself off the ropes.
28:14Turned himself off the ropes.
28:18That's it.
28:18Yep.
28:22See just how bad this nosebleed is.
28:28All right.
28:29Look at that double jab.
28:30That double jab and the fact that the two is landing, okay?
28:33You started off good.
28:34You left the jab back.
28:36You left the jab behind again.
28:37I need you to fucking jab.
28:39Sharp jab like you just threw.
28:40He's got me.
28:42He's going to come out with everything.
28:43You have to stay sharp.
28:45You didn't work this hard to finish last.
28:47You've got to stay sharp.
28:48Double jab left.
28:49Double jab right.
28:49Whatever it is.
28:50You stay right-handed.
28:52Do not fucking switch up on him.
28:53You understand me?
28:54Stay right-handed.
28:55Stay low when you're on.
28:56I don't even want you to chest to chest.
28:58I want you to chest.
29:00It's been the highlight of Medina.
29:02That uppercut.
29:04You see Garcia leaning forward over that front knee.
29:09Right in the lane for the uppercut.
29:11And Medina, understanding that.
29:14You see that blood just started dripping on that nose.
29:17He did some damage to that nose.
29:18Warriors, this is the eighth and final round.
29:24Ralph Villas, here announcing to the crowd that this is the eighth and final round.
29:29These two warriors have put it all on the line.
29:31Will Medina have something left to get to the finish line?
29:34And will Garcia be able to withstand those crazy right uppercuts of the fighter out of Guadalajara?
29:45The undefeated fighter Albert Chop Chop Gonzalez holding his baby there in the crowd.
29:50He was supposed to fight on this guard.
29:51But his opponent had medical issues earlier this week.
29:56And that fight was called off.
29:57We hope to see Chop Chop soon.
29:59And Garcia continues to chop, chop at the body of Medina.
30:08Again, he feels safer being close instead of being at that mid-range.
30:12You either got to be all the way in, all the way out.
30:14I like the fact that he wants to go all the way in, pause, into the chest of Medina
30:21to be able to take that space away from that uppercut, for that uppercut.
30:25So he lands a short little uppercut on the inside of himself, Garcia.
30:31But Medina can't allow him to do that, man.
30:34Medina's got to let his hands go before he gets there.
30:36He knows he's going to close the gap.
30:38Oh, he hurt him with that body chop.
30:40He kind of bent over after he got hit with that body shot to the solar plex by Medina.
30:46There's just not enough offense from Christian Medina in this fight.
30:50Not enough at all.
30:52And when he did throw, he landed and hurt Garcia twice in the second round
30:57with an uppercut.
30:59And then, again, the seven.
31:03The recuperative powers of Garcia shows you that he's up to tremendous shape.
31:08And two, mentally, he's in games.
31:11He's great.
31:13Yes, he's all right.
31:15She knows how to get his attention immediately.
31:17Yes.
31:18And how to get him back on track.
31:19Absolutely.
31:20And that's what a coach's supposed to be able to do.
31:24This is a loaded weight class at 135.
31:26A great flurry of punches there from Alain Garcia.
31:30And nothing coming back from the deep.
31:35That's where it's dangerous, though, Tim.
31:37He exposed himself.
31:38Yeah, when he's leaping out with shots and stuff.
31:40I mean, all he has to do is stay tight.
31:42Good uppercut on the inside.
31:45Body shot again from Garcia.
31:47Digging deep.
31:49Look at the heart.
31:50Look at the heart.
31:51Look at the heart of Garcia.
31:54Oh, yeah.
31:56Look, say whatever you want to say.
31:58This kid's a real fighter, man.
31:59He just hurt him with that body shot, too.
32:01Shot to the solar plexus.
32:03Man.
32:04That heart.
32:09He said, you might turn me into a meme, but I'm going to turn you into a fan tonight in this round.
32:15And you see that cut over the left eye of Christian Medina.
32:18It happens late in the fight.
32:21It will be inconsequential, but just not enough for Medina.
32:24And Alain Garcia, Tim, tonight he had great technique early.
32:29Then he got sloppy.
32:31He got clipped.
32:32He showed heart.
32:33That bloody nose that he had to deal with.
32:36So all the adversity inside, outside the ring, you see the character of this young man.
32:42He's back.
32:43He wants it.
32:44You can tell.
32:46You know, say whatever you want to say.
32:48Yeah, he got hit.
32:49He got rocked.
32:50But he was able to overcome.
32:51That's the important part.
32:53And moving forward, that's going to do something to his psyche.
32:55That's going to help him moving forward.
32:57He's going to believe a little bit more in himself each time he steps foot in this ring.
33:03But he overcame a lot of demons tonight because even though he had fought beforehand, he fought on the card with his bright lights now.
33:11He's back on the big scene.
33:13He's back on ESPN+.
33:14And he was able to come out here and put on this type of performance.
33:18Yeah, a lot of growth still needs to be done.
33:21I'm sure Gloria's trainer is going to go back, watch the film, and say,
33:24Yeah, you know what, you rushed here, you did this, you did that, you did this wrong.
33:28However, she's going to be happy the fact that he got through and he was able to finish strong the way he did.
33:34I like it.
33:35I like this performance tonight.
33:38Yes, he took some shots he shouldn't have.
33:40However, great performance back for the first time.
33:43A lot to like.
33:44Plenty of holes that you have to patch up.
33:46Yeah.
33:46But that's why he and Gloria Alvarado are such a great duo.
33:50Let's set it up to Ralph Velez Jr. with the decision.
33:54Ladies and gentlemen, after eight rounds of action, we go to the judges' scorecards.
34:03All three judges, Rudy Barragan, Jack Rees, and Joel Farnstein scored the contest 79-73.
34:13All for your winner by unanimous decision.
34:18All for your winner, Alain Garcia.
34:27That million-dollar smile is back on the face of Alain Garcia, the charismatic young fighter out of Kansas City.
34:33Love it.
34:34Glad he's back.
34:35Absolutely.
34:35Oh, another victory.
34:38Make it 16 in his professional career.
34:41And this one was hard fought here in San Diego, California.
34:44We'll get our first look at Perla Basel.
34:47Hello.
34:48Let's do it.
34:50I want to get 10 minutes.
34:51Let's start now.
34:53All for your winner by estar here in San Diego at sea.
34:55I want to get one last until I wait to see you.
34:57YouTuber right now who can use tobacco?
34:57He's for you."
34:58I want to hear you.
35:00I want to hear you.
35:00You can have a fantastic way.
35:00You can have a great deal.
35:02You can do it.
35:03You can talk to me too.
35:06Wait.
35:07Wait.
35:08I want to hear you.
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