Steve Garcia reveals heartbreaking conversation with his son after recent loss
UFC fighter Steve Garcia has revealed the conversation he had with his son after his recent defeat to Diego Lopes.
For the longest time, Steve Garcia was one of the most confident, outspoken featherweights on the UFC roster. He made it known that he believed he was on a one-way train to a title shot, but at UFC Freedom 250, he ran into an incredibly impressive Diego Lopes.
Lopes managed to knock him out in the second round of their showdown, and since then, Garcia has spent some time reflecting on what went wrong and what he wants to do next in the UFC.
In a recent interview with MMA Fighting, Garcia had the following to say about a heartbreaking conversation he had with his son after the loss.
Garcia looks back at Lopes defeat
“When I got home, my son asked me ‘Daddy, did you win?’” Garcia revealed. “I hadn’t lost in four years so he doesn’t know what it’s like for dad to lose. I was like no, dad didn’t win. He started crying. It broke me. It hurt me.
“I was like look when we play video games or something like that, I’ll tell him if you lose — because sometimes I’ll go in on him, I’m like you need to lose — if you lose, what does daddy always tell you? He said ‘try again.’ Exactly so daddy has to try again.”
“You’re going to see a whole new Steve Garcia that you haven’t seen before,” Garcia said. That’s me breaking it down.
“At the end of the day, everybody has it coming. I was telling people and excuse my language but everybody’s f*cked. Everybody’s getting it. That’s fine. I don’t know who else they want to give me but I tasted what it’s like to be at the very top and I want more of it.”
Quotes via MMA Fighting
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