Steve
Garcia is doing all the things he can to make sure all of his fights
are appointment viewing.
The
Jackson-Wink MMA product dispatched Seung Woo
Choi through first-round technical knockout within the UFC
on ESPN 60 co-main occasion on the UFC Apex on Saturday nght, his
fourth consecutive triumph through KO or TKO. It’s nothing new for
“Imply Machine,” who has completed 13 of his 16 profession triumphs in
that very same trend.
“It’s simply one other one on my cap. It’s one other [notch],” Garcia
mentioned on the post-fight press convention. “I’m blessed. I’m simply
attempting to get extra. Each single time I are available there, I need you
guys to tune in. I need you guys to see Steve
Garcia and simply be like, ‘This man’s bringing it, so let’s
watch.’”
Garcia entered Saturday’s battle with quite a bit on his thoughts, so it was
one thing of a reduction to carry out the best way he did.
“It’s been an important ending to a protracted camp,” he mentioned. “It’s my
brother’s birthday so I obtained to get a ‘W’ on his birthday. I wish to
want him a cheerful birthday.
“I even have one other buddy, and I type of discovered this out at the moment,
he’s had a battle with most cancers and he’s really dropping it proper
now. He instructed me so long as I’m combating, he’s gonna hold combating.
And so we’re pushing collectively.”
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Garcia revealed that he realized of his buddy’s situation shortly
earlier than he was scheduled to face throughout from Choi within the
Octagon.
“It occurred like two hours earlier than I obtained on the bus. It type of hit
me laborious,” Garcia mentioned. “He’s a police officer in Albuquerque. “He’s
truthfully only a actually good dude. He places his neck on the road
each single time he goes on the market within the area. The face that he
has most cancers and he’s nonetheless doing that, these are the actual heroes.
The law enforcement officials, the firefighters. I get to go dwelling (on the finish
of the day), a few of these guys don’t.”
Whereas he might have been combating with a heavy coronary heart, Garcia was
nonetheless happy to study that his knockout streak is presently
tops throughout the Las Vegas-based promotion.
“It was a shock, however man, that’s superior,” he mentioned. “We’re
setting information. How will you not love that?”
For Garcia, that streak is only a byproduct of his typical strategy
to combating.
“Not the document however I at all times have strain. I at all times need finishes…
That’s how I battle, that’s my type,” he mentioned. “I undoubtedly simply
carry it each single time. It’s laborious to only comply with up each
single time. You wish to win finally, however the way you win additionally
dictates your future too. So I am going on the market and depart it out on the
line.”
With extra success, Garcia will probably get extra of a say in his
future. Throughout his post-fight interview, the New Mexican known as out
Dan
Ige, who has been a preferred goal on the heels of his
short-notice look at UFC 303.
“I feel that might be a enjoyable battle,” Garcia mentioned. “The followers would
love that battle. He brings it, I carry it. That’s fireworks within the
making. I’m simply serving to the matchmaker out.
“I feel all people desires to battle at The Sphere, however I’m lifelike.
I’ll battle wherever.”
Whereas Garcia isn’t choosy on the subject of venue, he does imagine
that he has achieved sufficient to earn a step up in competitors for his
subsequent Octagon look.
“If it was as much as me, it’d be somebody that has a rating. That’s my
subsequent aim, to battle somebody that has a rating subsequent to their identify.
As a result of I desire a rating on my identify,” he mentioned. “I really feel like I’m
placing these guys out, I’m not barely squeaking by. And I do know
everybody within the High 15 is sport. I must be in that blend.”
