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betii · 11-12-2008, 11:25 AM

Leonard Garcia talks about his impressive win over Jens Pulver, his future plans and more.

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On his future plans...

"I actually asked to fight in December, but they’re having some issues with the way things ended up. The champ’s hurt right now. I believe I’m the #1 contender right now and there are a lot of different options man. Who knows man? Me and one of the top 10 guys might be locking horns here pretty soon, even if it’s not for the title."

"We get paid to fight and I think people are going to want to see me fight anybody. It’s not an issue with me of picking opponents or I’m afraid of this guy. I’ll fight anybody they put in front of me and if they’re willing to make the numbers right, I’m willing to take the fight."

"I’m still hungry as hell man. I want the title, but like I said, I’m willing to fight whoever."

On his performance against Pulver...

"I was going to come out and exchange with him and see how that went and then in the 2nd or 3rd round, if he started to get tired or I started to get tired, just take him down, grind on him and wear him out. It worked out in my favor."

"The thing is, and the thing I want people to understand is, I trained for a 25-minute fight. I’m ready to go at that pace for 25 minutes. I know it’s just a 15-minute fight, but I believe in my heart that I’m going to be fighting for that championship pretty soon, so I train to fight for 5 rounds."

"I’ve never hurt somebody and have them come back. I think that’s part of my Hispanic heritage man; that hot blood. I have that killer instinct."

"I had to check his eyes for a second before I jumped on him because he wasn’t all the way down."

"I tried to make sure that he didn’t have a clear head when I went in for it, but I seen his eyes man and they were rolling pretty good. He was kind of lost and didn’t know what was going on."

On Mike Brown's win over Faber...

"To be honest man, you could see it in Urijah that he didn’t seem as confident as he normally does. He just didn’t look the same to me man. I think he was beat before he went in. Not because he was scared of Mike or anything like that because I don’t think he’s afraid of anything, but the thing was, Mike Brown is a man. That boy can wrestle and he can box. I think Urijah may have felt outgunned in this fight. He didn’t lay down by any means, but he went down pretty quick and pretty early. He really didn’t try to do anything."

More in the full interview:

LEONARD GARCIA: "I'M WILLING TO FIGHT WHOEVER!"
http://www.fighthype.com/pages/content3782.html