Emiliano Vargas pulls up on RING CHAMPS just days after his statement win at a sold-out Barclays Center, and the fastest-rising name in the Vargas dynasty holds nothing back. The undefeated 22-year-old gets real about answering Ryan Garcia’s verbal jab, why he believes Vargas vs. Garcia sells out a stadium. Plus, sparring Shakur Stevenson as a 17-year-old, and the only fighter who ever hurt him in the ring.

He also takes us inside the most surreal stretch of his young career: the locker room during Xander Zayas’ loss to Boots Ennis, the phone call telling him Bad Bunny personally picked him for the Super Bowl halftime show, and the casino run that cost him $16,000 in an hour. Plus his brothers’ bare-knuckle debut in London, the lessons pulled from his father, Fernando’s, career, and the untold story of the pro fight he took with no team and his barber working the mitts.

0:00 Intro
0:47 Vargas Brothers in boxing & family competition
3:18 Staying focused despite money & fame
7:22 Learning from his brothers’ mistakes
11:08 AD BREAK
13:28 Falling in love with boxing as a kid
15:13 Amateur career & traveling the world
17:52 Sparring wars with his brothers growing up
21:33 Ryan Garcia
23:24 His father’s legacy: Tito Trinidad and beyond
27:28 Breaking down the Xander Zayas vs. Boots Ennis fight
32:58 Super Bowl halftime show & meeting Bad Bunny
36:41 Sparring Shakur Stevenson & Jorge Linares
43:17 Dream fight: Ryan Garcia & next opponents
47:42 Untold Stories
58:19 Rapid-fire Qs, dad’s best advice & money stories

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