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00:00 Okay, gentlemen, we went over the instructions in the dressing room. I expect a clean fight.
00:03 These trunks right there are good. There's a line. These are good. There's a line there.
00:06 Touch gloves now. Go back to your corner.
00:07 That slight resemblance that Alan Garcia's opponent, Gonzalo Fuensalida,
00:13 has to Ruslan Provodnikov has Timothy Bradley's shadowboxing rigged side.
00:18 I'm shook right now, man. When you said that, I looked up at him and said, "Oh my gosh,
00:22 it does look like Ruslan Provodnikov."
00:25 One of the greatest fights ever in the sport. We'll see if Fuensalida can live up to the hype.
00:32 It's a little bit of the haircut, I think, and the facial structure.
00:35 But he don't fight like him, though. I don't think he fights like him.
00:38 I don't think he fights like him. He don't have that power. He only got five, what, five knockouts?
00:42 Three knockouts and twelve yards.
00:44 Three knockouts and twelve yards, yeah.
00:45 You know who does have some power? That young man. Alan Garcia, Kid Kansas.
00:51 He is a fighter to watch out for. Eleven wins, nine by way of knockout.
00:57 Fuensalida, he's a lot smarter than the way he looks.
01:03 I mean, you're always taught as a fighter to never judge a book by its cover.
01:07 You look at his frame, you see you don't see a whole lot of definition on him.
01:11 But when you see him operate inside the ring, you see how he's staying close,
01:15 just close enough, just out of range to make you miss, but then he comes back.
01:19 Anytime you see Garcia, there's any low points in his offense and he doesn't know what to do next.
01:24 That's when you're going to see Fuensalida coming in on the attack.
01:29 Fuensalida told me I need to be smart. I need to work his body, which he's doing so far.
01:33 I just have to watch out for his power in regards to Alan Garcia.
01:37 So he knows what he's up against.
01:38 He knows what he's up against and he'll be durable early on.
01:42 But as Garcia starts to get comfortable and starts to make him pay with his quickness,
01:48 later in the fight, that's when he becomes vulnerable.
01:50 Fuensalida has been stopped. He was stopped in his last fight against Mark Castro,
01:56 who's a talented prospect on the rise.
02:00 Good body work right there.
02:06 Nice shot to the body.
02:09 And right coming back for both, Garcia too.
02:11 Garcia, he's got a little spiciness to him.
02:15 He don't like to get hit and when he gets touched, he wants to get that get back.
02:18 You see the feint from Garcia setting up right to the rib cage of Fuensalida.
02:28 Fuensalida trained by David Figueroa, 20 and 10 in 30 amateur fights.
02:38 The only time he went down was against former world titleist Claudio Marrero
02:42 and it was to a body shot, which is the specialty of Alan Garcia.
02:47 It is a specialty.
02:48 And going down to that body is going to expose the head sooner than later.
02:54 I mean, fighters, we don't like to get hit down to the body.
02:57 And you're already starting to see the reddening in the midsection, right center on Fuensalida.
03:02 Both guys getting their head off the line right there at the same time.
03:09 See, that's experience right there.
03:11 Absolutely.
03:12 You know.
03:12 But he didn't get off the line that time.
03:15 With that right hand.
03:15 We've talked about Gloria Alvarado being in the corner of Alan Garcia, Kid Kansas,
03:24 but there's a lot of women who have made waves and opened doors in the sport.
03:30 Anne Najjar, the Mint Queen, who has worked out of San Diego with Tant Crawford, Johnny Mansoor,
03:35 and even Michael B. Jordan for his role as Adonis Creed in the film Creed.
03:39 Anne Wolfe, who was as tough inside the ring as she was on her fighters.
03:44 Outside the ring, including James Kirkland.
03:48 And then there's Gloria Thornton Peake, a career that spanned more than 40 years.
03:52 She coached Claressa Shields, Andre Ward.
03:55 We're talking about gold medalists in the Olympic Games.
04:00 And now we have the next in line, a woman who has a chance to make history tonight.
04:04 If she can crown Yocasta Valle as the undisputed champion, she'd be the first woman
04:10 to crown an undisputed champion.
04:13 She's known as Coach G, and she was the Boxing Writers Female Trainer of the Year in 2023.
04:19 We'll see a lot of her this evening, and we will hear a lot from her on the mic
04:25 with our very own Timothy Bradley.
04:27 How you doing? Hey, thanks for allowing me to join you, Coach G.
04:30 Welcome to the kitchen.
04:31 To the kitchen? Because why you call it the kitchen?
04:34 It's going to get hot right now.
04:35 Oh, it's hot.
04:37 Really?
04:38 Shoulders side to side.
04:39 There you go.
04:42 Hey, shorten that one up.
04:43 Shorten that up.
04:43 I tell you, when he reaches for the body, shorten it up.
04:46 What are you seeing right now?
04:48 We're just taking our time getting that round in and filling out the opponent.
04:51 You know, he's a tough opponent.
04:53 You know, and he's a--
04:54 What makes him so tough?
04:55 Well, he just wants to come forward.
04:57 He just wants to come forward.
04:58 He's, you know, he's just standing in front of us.
04:59 So we just want to box a little and show this kid all his potential in the ring.
05:04 Watch those left uppercuts.
05:06 Watch the left uppercuts, okay?
05:07 Shoot the upjabs too.
05:08 Give him different jabs.
05:10 He's leaning in with those hooks, kid.
05:12 You got to catch and then shoot.
05:13 Double jab now.
05:14 Don't wait for him to--
05:15 There you go.
05:17 Pick up your elbow a little bit.
05:18 Chop it up a little.
05:19 One, one, and then the six over the top.
05:21 Right there.
05:23 He's moving into your right hook.
05:24 Nah.
05:26 Where's your distance?
05:26 Where's the cutoff punch?
05:27 The right hook.
05:28 He's walking into it.
05:28 There you go.
05:29 There you go.
05:31 Up the middle.
05:32 Up the middle.
05:33 Stay low.
05:33 Don't smile at yourself.
05:34 Here you go.
05:36 Step to him with the double jab now.
05:37 Look at his chin.
05:39 He's up in the air.
05:40 Hit him with the up jab with a five.
05:41 Go.
05:43 Step to him again.
05:43 Everything tight.
05:45 Everything tight.
05:45 How do you get him to do exactly what you want him to do?
05:49 I mean, how do you do that in training?
05:51 He just hears my voice all day long.
05:53 He lives with us.
05:53 You know, he's in camp all the time with me and he hears my voice.
05:56 Hard feint.
05:57 Give a hard feint first.
05:58 Then a double jab.
05:59 Give a hard feint first, then a double jab.
06:01 There you go.
06:01 There you go.
06:03 Oh, good shot.
06:03 There you go.
06:04 Right there.
06:04 Right there.
06:05 Pick him up.
06:06 Pick him up.
06:07 Over the top.
06:08 There you go.
06:10 That's it, baby.
06:12 Hey, hey.
06:13 Over here.
06:13 Double jab.
06:14 Over the top.
06:16 Hey, pick your elbow up a little bit.
06:18 Don't open it up.
06:19 Bring your head over to the left.
06:21 Shoot it right down to the center.
06:24 Wow.
06:24 Excellent.
06:26 Great job.
06:27 Right there.
06:28 Referee Chris Flores was explicit in asking Gonzalo Fuensalida, "Do you want to continue?"
06:36 The answer was even clearer.
06:38 No.
06:39 I'm done.
06:39 Alan Garcia earns his 10th professional knockout in 12 wins, looking better every time out.
06:48 Because Gonzalo Fuensalida was supposed to give Alan Garcia some rounds.
06:55 Even his coach, Laurie Alvarado, said, "We expect this fight to go a few minutes because
07:02 of the fact that Fuensalida is tough and he has a lot of experience."
07:07 And now that Tim Bradley is back ringside, let's take a look at how this fight came to
07:12 an end.
07:13 It was quick and sudden and effective.
07:15 Look.
07:16 Garcia stepped on the gas.
07:21 That's all he needed to do.
07:22 He stepped on the gas.
07:24 You can tell Miss G in the corner when I was having a conversation with her, she said that
07:28 once you stop him from going forward and you start pushing him back, guess what?
07:33 He's going to cough up that victory.
07:35 And that's exactly what you saw right here.
07:37 Alan Garcia forced Gonzalo Fuensalida into submission.
07:42 And it was just the way he turned up the power, Tim, in that second round was by design.
07:48 Well, Fuensalida is the type of fighter that if he stays around long enough, he starts
07:52 believing that he can win.
07:53 He starts landing and starts gaining confidence.
07:56 And you have to shut him down.
07:57 And that's what Garcia did.
07:59 He stepped on the gas.
08:00 He switched southpaw.
08:01 He changed things up a bit.
08:02 And he was digging downstairs to the body.
08:04 You know the history of Fuensalida as well.
08:07 You said the body shots will come into effect.
08:11 And it sure did right there.
08:13 He made him cough it up.
08:14 He made him quit.
08:14 Well, he may look a little bit like Ruzlan Provodnikov, Tim, but he does not fight like
08:19 Ruzlan.
08:20 No, he don't fight like Ruzlan Provodnikov.
08:21 He don't have the heart that Ruzlan Provodnikov has.
08:23 And neither does he have the power that Ruzlan Provodnikov has.
08:26 But, you know, I tip my hat off to any fighter that stepped foot in that ring.
08:30 You know, Garcia looked good tonight.
08:34 He had a little bit of, I would say, a little bit of a puzzle at first in the first round.
08:38 He was getting hit with some shots.
08:39 Got a little bit careless.
08:41 He got to think about defense after offense.
08:43 That's the next phase for him.
08:46 Go back to the drawing board.
08:47 Think about defense after your offense.
08:49 Because as soon as he would see steel and spots, that's when you see my man come forward
08:56 and have some success.
08:57 All right.
08:58 So it's a stoppage win for Alan Garcia in the second round.
09:01 The official time with Mark Chinook.
09:03 Ladies and gentlemen, here inside Desert Diamond Arena, referee Chris Flores stops this
09:08 bout at 1 minute 58 seconds of round number two for your winner by technical knockout,
09:14 Alan "Kid Kansas" Garcia.
09:18 Alan Garcia takes the win at 1 minute 58 seconds of round two.
09:25 And he continues his unbeaten run at 12 and 0 with 10 knockouts.
09:30 And before we go to break, we--