George Kambosos Jr. decided to give Ryan Garcia some life advice. After reading Garcia's social media comments that the undefeated lightweight made about him on Chris Mannix's latest boxing podcast, Kambosos warned Garcia to focus on his upcoming opponent. Emmanuel Tago. Garcia (21-0, 18 KOs) and Tago (32-1, 15 KOs) are due to meet on April 9 in the main event of the evening of boxing on DAZN, which will be held in San Antonio, USA.
“Winners focus on winning, losers focus on winners,” Kambosos wrote in a tweet. "You've done nothing in the sport besides creating a massive social media presence so just keep working hard kid and focus on your boy Tago because he's coming for the win you better be sure of that." .
Australian Kambosos, the undefeated unified lightweight champion, and Tago have sparred a lot in recent years as they both train under the same mentor Peter Kahn.
Lou DiBella, Kambosos' promoter, is in talks with DAZN for Kambosos (20-0, 10 KOs) to fight the undefeated WBC lightweight champion Devin Haney (27-0, 15 KOs) June 5 at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne, Australia. The original opponent of Kambosos, the champion in three divisions is Ukrainian Vasily Lomachenko, withdrew from the fight last weekend due to the ongoing Russian military incursion into his home country.
Kambosos, 28, defeated Teofimo Lopez (16-1, 12 KOs) in his last fight for the IBF, WBA, WBC and WBO lightweight titles. Kambosos was able to send Lopez to the floor of the ring in the first round. He rose from a 10th round knockdown and defeated Lopez by split decision on November 27 in New York.
“It was a very strange fight,” Garcia said earlier. "Don't get me wrong, Kambosos is great, he won. But I don't think he is as skilled as Teofimo. I still think that he is worse than him. I think he just caught Teofimo at the right moment, that's all. I really believe in it."
Garcia, 23, praised Cambosos, but Kambosos apparently regarded his comments as an ambiguous compliment.
“What I like about Cambosos is that he may not be the most talented, but he probably works very hard,” said Garcia. — He defeated talent when talent wasn't working hard. I wish him to earn a lot of money in sports so that he can always take care of his family.”
