I fought to be the best in six weight classes. I fight to be the best promoter the sport has ever seen. The ring teaches you that the only thing that matters is showing up better prepared than the other person.
Losing Canelo hurt. It was the right business decision for him and the wrong outcome for us. I respect it. I had to learn from it and rebuild.
East LA made me tough. It also made me grateful. I grew up fighting for everything. I want kids from East LA to know that coming from nothing is not a limitation — it is a fuel source.
The promoter's job is to make the fighter look like the biggest star in the world. When you do that job well, everyone makes money. When you forget whose name is on the marquee, you lose the fighter.
I was open about my struggles because I know someone out there is going through the same thing and thinking they are alone. No recovery is linear. No success story is clean.