Jose Rivera Retires Before Santos Bout

[ferocity]

To tell u the truth, Jose works full time on his feet all day and just goes to the gym afterwards. Then goes home and eats......then does it again the next day. Been doing that for a while. Not telling you as an excuse...just saying it is what it is. A lot of fighters have the true luxury of going totraining camp, etc etc....but Clay-Bey and Jose are two examples of guys who have had to work full time (Clay works third shift and was doing so when I trained him) and then go train afterwards. Run in the morning before work, etc etc. THAT is a tough, tough life, especially at that level, u know?

Damn, that is tough. I have no doubt that Jose would have been a better fighter if he only had to train, and that goes for Clay too. But i know they have family to support.

I used to have a boxing trainer (still talk to him to this day, great person) who used to say that to truly advance in boxing "a boxer can't have a job and box. Boxing is his job." But i understand Rivera had a family.

Tell Rivera i said hi, and i wish him the best in life. He should be proud to go as far as he did in boxing, the guy is a two division Champion can't nobody take that away from him.