1. Mikey Garcia held multiple world championships in four weight classes from featherweight to light welterweight, and challenged once for the IBF welterweight title.
78 Facts About Mikey Garcia
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Mikey Garcia's older brother, Roberto was a professional boxer and a former IBF Super Featherweight Champion who lost his belt to the late Diego Corrales.
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Mikey Garcia's oldest brother, Daniel, was a boxer and trainer.
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Mikey Garcia has been featured on ABC's show American Latino TV and he talked about balancing studies with the demands of boxing.
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Mikey Garcia started his amateur career at the age of fourteen.
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Mikey Garcia is known as a patient fighter with good punching power, a natural right-hander who likes to switch to southpaw during some of his fights.
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Mikey Garcia turned pro in 2006 and signed with Bob Arum's Top Rank.
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Mikey Garcia was undefeated in his first 20 professional fights with 17 of them coming by way of knockout.
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Mikey Garcia then beat Matt Remillard to win the WBO NABO Featherweight Championship.
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Mikey Garcia's fight with Salido was originally supposed to happen on November 10,2012 at Wynn Las Vegas but Salido broke his finger and had to pull out of the fight with Garcia fighting Jonathan Victor Barros as a late replacement.
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Mikey Garcia would get his chance again In front of a near sell out crowd of 4,850 at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City, Mikey Garcia dominated the bout from the very beginning, keeping Salido at range with the jab.
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Mikey Garcia knocked Salido down four times early on in the fight, building up a large lead on the scorecards.
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Mikey Garcia was scheduled to make his first title defense against Juan Manuel Lopez in Dallas on June 15,2013.
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Mikey Garcia claimed the reason for not making weight was due to missing several days of training.
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On fight night, Mikey Garcia re-hydrated to 142 pounds, whilst Lopez weighed 137.5 pounds on the HBO scales.
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In front of a crowd of 5,605 at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, Mikey Garcia dominated the fight from the opening bell, dropping Lopez in round 2 following a right straight hand.
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In round 4, Mikey Garcia landed a left hook to Lopez, knocking him down again.
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Mikey Garcia went down in the second round from a Martinez counter right hand.
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Mikey Garcia recovered and dominated the rest of the fight before knocking out Martinez with a left hook to the body in the eighth round.
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The victory meant Mikey Garcia became a two weight world champion.
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On December 14,2013 it was announced that Mikey Garcia would make his first title defense against mandatory challenger, 25 year old Mexican boxer Juan Carlos Burgos.
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Mikey Garcia went into the fight with a 11-fight knockout streak.
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Mikey Garcia landed 163 of 567 punches thrown and Burgos landed 89 of his 564 thrown.
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Mikey Garcia had been unhappy over his purses, which had been increasing to career-high six-figure levels fight after fight, sued Top Rank in April 2014 to get out of the agreement.
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Mikey Garcia was due to make a mandatory defence against Interim champion Orlando Salido.
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Mikey Garcia cited difficulty in making the 130 pound limit, the main reason he vacated.
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Top Rank announced on June 28,2016, after 2 and a half years off, Mikey Garcia would be returning to the boxing ring against former world featherweight titleholder Elio Rojas on July 30 on Showtime in a 10-round bout at Barclays Center in Brooklyn on the undercard of Santa-Cruz-Frampton.
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The weight had not been contractually hashed out, however Mikey Garcia planned to move down with the hopes of challenging for a world title in the 135-pound lightweight division.
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Mikey Garcia scored four knockdowns, before finishing Rojas in the 5th round via knockout.
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Mikey Garcia hit Rojas face-first with a left hand and dropping him with a right uppercut-left hook combination.
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Mikey Garcia stopped Zlaticanin in round three to win the title and give Zlaticanin his first professional defeat.
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The end came after Mikey Garcia hit a two punch combination starting with an uppercut which led Zlaticanin open for a final right hook which dropped him backwards on the floor, a knockout of the year candidate.
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Mikey Garcia became a three-weight world champion with this knockout win.
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Mikey Garcia landed 50 punches of 176 thrown, whilst Zlaticanin landed only 16 of 60.
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Mikey Garcia said he would be returning to lightweight after the fight, adding that the Broner fight was 'too good and too lucrative' to pass up.
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Mikey Garcia said he would be more disciplined because he won't give up half a million dollars and claimed he had a reason to not miss weight.
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Mikey Garcia weighed in a career high 139.5 pounds and more than Broner, who weighed 138.7 pounds.
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CompuBox statistics showed that Mikey Garcia was the more active boxer, landing 244 of 783 punches, Broner landed only 125 of 400 thrown.
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Mikey Garcia threw over 200 punches in the last four rounds alone, trying to get the stoppage win.
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Mikey Garcia said he was open to any boxer coming over to showtime, whether that be at 135,140 or even 147 pounds.
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In early September 2017, Mikey Garcia took to social media and called out four-weight world champion Miguel Cotto for a fight in December, possibly being Cotto's final fight.
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Robert Garcia said if Mikey is unable to land a fight with Cotto, he could potentially fight Robert Easter Jr.
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Mikey Garcia commented on Twitter that the Cotto fight couldn't happen as Golden Boy Promotions required him signing an exclusive long-term contract with them in order to make the fight.
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Eric Gomez, president of Golden Boy sent out a message to Mikey Garcia stating if he wanted the fight with Linares, it could be made, without any add-ons to the contract.
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WBC president Sulaiman announced that Mikey Garcia would keep his lightweight title regardless of the result.
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Mikey Garcia dropped Lipinets in round 7, en route to becoming a four-weight world champion via unanimous decision after 12 rounds.
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Many of the rounds were close with Mikey Garcia doing more to win each round.
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Mikey Garcia came in to the fight with a gameplan knowing Lipinets was the bigger man, he used different angles behind his jab and remained patient.
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CompuBox Stats showed that Mikey Garcia landed 169 of 679 total punches and Lipinets landed 144 of his 509 thrown.
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On March 12,2018, the IBF wrote to Mikey Garcia, giving him until March 22 to decide whether he wants to keep his IBF title at light welterweight as they had a mandatory challenger, Ivan Baranchyk lined up next.
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In round 3, Mikey Garcia knocked Easter down with a left hook to the head.
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Mikey Garcia did not seem to struggle to get close as Easter, who was using his long jab effectively as Mikey Garcia himself was managing to land his jab, despite the reach disadvantage.
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Mikey Garcia gave a great fight, but I was the better fighter.
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On July 31,2018, the IBF ordered Mikey Garcia to defend his newly-won title against mandatory challenger Richard Commey, with a deal to be reached by August 30.
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On October 30,2018, Mikey Garcia vacated his IBF lightweight title and the purse bid for the potential Commey fight was cancelled.
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Some welcomed the fight and praised Mikey Garcia for 'daring to be great' and some fans believed the size difference would be too much as Spence is considered a big welterweight.
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Mikey Garcia tried to close the distance, but with Spence's weight and height advantage, he was able to completely dominate Mikey Garcia even in the pocket.
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Mikey Garcia was unable to land double-digit punches in any of the twelve rounds.
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Mikey Garcia believed their different styles would make for a good fight.
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Mikey Garcia said the contract he signed was the "right deal and the right agreement".
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Mikey Garcia agreed to sign on a fight-by-fight basis, so he could avoid being tied down into a contract and have more freedom.
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Mikey Garcia explained he originally wished to return to super lightweight, but wanted a top contender following his professional loss, however there was no boxers available who fit this criteria, so he instead opted to stay at welterweight.
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Mikey Garcia began slow, allowing Vargas to out-box him in the opening rounds.
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The turning point was in round 5 after Mikey Garcia landed a right hand, which dropped Vargas.
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Mikey Garcia barely beat the count and was again staggered by another right hand.
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Mikey Garcia told reporters, the date and venue would depend on when and where Saul Alvarez had his next fight.
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Eddie Hearn who had promoted Mikey Garcia's last fight, was excited about the possibilities of the match up, as it would add his DAZN schedule.
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An example of this was Mikey Garcia earning a guaranteed $7 million base purse against Vargas, which was a one-fight deal.
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Mikey Garcia did not claim Garcia was avoiding him and hoped the fight could take place in the future.
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The idea was for Mikey Garcia to shake off some ring rust and then move on to fight Regis Prograis in 2022.
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Mikey Garcia weighed 143.6 pounds and Martin, who was fighting in the United States for the first time as a professional, weighed 144 pounds.
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Mikey Garcia was the one moving, running around a lot.
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Mikey Garcia countered me a few times, but I was the one actively looking for the fight; I thought I was ahead on the cards.
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Mikey Garcia, who intended to gain rounds in the fight and shake off any ring rust, failed to do so as he looked slow.
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Mikey Garcia didn't make any excuses following the loss and despite not having a rematch clause in the contract, both were open to having one.
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Mikey Garcia ensured the loss would not define his career and he would continue fighting.
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For now, Mikey Garcia said he would campaign in the super lightweight division.
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Mikey Garcia did not make a post himself, however his older brother and trainer Robert Garcia confirmed the news.