AFTER successive defeats, how do you reflect on your victory last month, against Isaac Munoz Gutierrez?
I had a good fight. A good performance. I could’ve did a little more. But I did what I could in the time I had to get ready and prepare for the fight, so, overall, I had a good performance. But, you know, I’m just a huge critic of myself so I feel like I could’ve did a little better, but I was trying a new style, trying some new things, and, you know, just back to the drawing board.
[My new style involved] just trying to be more aggressive, come forward more. I fight better off the back leg, so my coach has been wanting me to come forward instead of moving back so much. Som just trying to be the aggressor more.
In a sense [that’s a response to my defeats], because I feel like I could have been more aggressive in those fights. So, yeah, that’s a part of it.
It’s always a huge relief to win, but you can’t beat yourself up too much, you know? Boxing is a very hard sport – we put our lives on the line, we train very hard, so a loss can be very depressing for people. But I go back to the gym, we watch film, I see what mistakes I made, what I could have perfected or what I could have
