https://www.boxingscene.com/cancio-on-being-cut-by-golden-boy-whole-situation-f-ed-up--144608
Andrew Cancio lost his WBA junior lightweight title via TKO to Renee Alvarado on Saturday night. By Monday morning, he lost his promotional deal with Golden Boy as well when the company released the fighter from his contract.
Immediately before his fight against Alvarado, Cancio (21-5-2, 16 KOs) made disparaging remarks about Golden Boy to the Los Angeles Times about how his career and promotion was being handled by Oscar De La Hoya and company following his Cinderella story of winning the title against heavy favorite Alberto Machado in February, and defending it successfully again against Machado in June.
Cancio felt that his blue-collared image of balancing a backbreaking, full-time job as a construction technician at the Southern California Gas Co. — as well as being a champion — should have been promoted better in bigger venues, while making him more money along the way.
Instead, Golden Boy opted to further take no part in that narrative and released Cancio three days before Thanksgiving.
“The whole situation is f---ed up. I’m already down on myself for the way I lost my belt, and now, it’s like ‘let’s just put this on you,’” Cancio told BoxingScene.com in an interview Tuesday. “It’s unfortunate how it all happened. I wanted a rematch with Alvarado, and they didn’t want to give me one.
“My whole career I’ve been at Fantasy Springs [in Indio, Calif.]. Don’t get me wrong, I love it there, but I wanted to move around and get promoted better to build up my fan base and build more exposure. That’s how I felt, and I still feel that way. Ryan Garcia beat Golden Boy up a lot worse than what I did. I just said the truth, but they signed Ryan to a big contract, and paid him more money than they paid me.”
Andrew Cancio lost his WBA junior lightweight title via TKO to Renee Alvarado on Saturday night. By Monday morning, he lost his promotional deal with Golden Boy as well when the company released the fighter from his contract.
Immediately before his fight against Alvarado, Cancio (21-5-2, 16 KOs) made disparaging remarks about Golden Boy to the Los Angeles Times about how his career and promotion was being handled by Oscar De La Hoya and company following his Cinderella story of winning the title against heavy favorite Alberto Machado in February, and defending it successfully again against Machado in June.
Cancio felt that his blue-collared image of balancing a backbreaking, full-time job as a construction technician at the Southern California Gas Co. — as well as being a champion — should have been promoted better in bigger venues, while making him more money along the way.
Instead, Golden Boy opted to further take no part in that narrative and released Cancio three days before Thanksgiving.
“The whole situation is f---ed up. I’m already down on myself for the way I lost my belt, and now, it’s like ‘let’s just put this on you,’” Cancio told BoxingScene.com in an interview Tuesday. “It’s unfortunate how it all happened. I wanted a rematch with Alvarado, and they didn’t want to give me one.
“My whole career I’ve been at Fantasy Springs [in Indio, Calif.]. Don’t get me wrong, I love it there, but I wanted to move around and get promoted better to build up my fan base and build more exposure. That’s how I felt, and I still feel that way. Ryan Garcia beat Golden Boy up a lot worse than what I did. I just said the truth, but they signed Ryan to a big contract, and paid him more money than they paid me.”
