Miguel Angel Garcia ( Miguel Angel Garcia , better known as: Mikey Garcia ); born December 15, 1987 , Ventura , California , USA ) is an American professional boxer who performs in five: ranging from lightweight (to 57.15 kg), lightweight (up to 61.235 kg) and welterweight (up to 66.68 kg) weight categories . IBF World Champion (2018) and WBC Diamond Champion (2017–2018) 1st Welterweight. World champion in WBC (2017–2019) and IBF (2018) lightweight versions. WBO World Champion (2013–2014) in the 2nd featherweight. World champion in WBO and The Ring (2013) featherweight versions.
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| Full name | Miguel Angel Garcia |
| Nickname | Mikey Garcia |
| Citizenship |  USA |
| Date of Birth | December 15, 1987 ( 31) |
| Place of Birth | Ventura , California , USA |
| Accommodation | Oxnard , California , USA |
| Weight category | featherweight (up to 57.15 kg) , 2nd lightweight (up to 58.97 kg) , light (up to 61.235 kg) , 1st welterweight (up to 63.5 kg) , welterweight (up to 66.68 kg) |
| Rack | Righty |
| Growth | 168 cm |
| Arm span | 173 cm |
| Ratings | |
| BoxRec Rating Position | 2 (639.1 points) |
| Best BoxRec Rating Position | 1 (694 points) |
| Professional career | |
| First fight | July 14, 2006 |
| The last battle | March 16, 2019 |
| Number of battles | 40 |
| Number of victories | 39 |
| KOs | thirty |
| Defeat | one |
| No one's | 0 |
World champion in 4 weight categories, taking away titles from 4 reigning world champions: featherweight (defeated Orlando Salido in 2013 ); in the 2nd featherweight (defeated Roman Martinez in November 2013 ); lightweight (defeated Dejan Zlatichanin in 2017 ); and in the 1st welterweight (in 2018, he defeated Sergey Lipinets ).
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Biography
The Garcia family come from Paninducaero, ( Michoacan , Mexico ). His father Eduardo Garcia was an amateur boxer and coach of world champion boxer Fernando Vargas . His older brother Roberto Garcia was a professional boxer and former IBF world champion in the first lightweight who lost his belt in a fight with Diego Corrales . His older brother Daniel, also a former boxer and former boxer coach of Victor Ortiz . Miguel Angel is a graduate of the Ventura County Police Academy.
Miguel began his amateur career at the age of fourteen and defeated current champion Ring , WBC and WBA (Super) welterweight, Danny Garcia .
In 2004, he won the Golden Gloves national junior tournament. In 2005, he won the championship of the sports league.
Professional career
Featherweight
Garcia made his debut in the professional ring in July 2006
In October 2008, he won on points the first serious rival, Colombian Walter Estrada (34-6).
On April 3, 2010 , Mikey Garcia knocked out Mexican Thomas Willie in the first round and won the USBA title. On August 14, 2010, Garcia knocked out American Cornelius Luke in the IBF eliminator.
On March 26, 2011, Miguel Angel, in a fight for the NABF and WBO NABO titles, knocked out the undefeated American Matt Remiland (23-0). In June, Garcia defended his titles by knockout in a fight with Mexican Rafael Guzman (28-2).
In September 2012 , Garcia knocked out in the second round of the former world champion, Colombian Mauricio Pastrana [2] .
On November 10, 2012, Mikey knocked out Argentinean Jonathan Victor Barros (34-3-1) [3] .
On January 19, 2013 , Mikey Garcia entered the ring with WBO World Champion Orlando Salido . Salido and Garcia were at the top of the Ring magazine ranking, and in the first two games since 2004, the vacant The Ring featherweight title was played.
Garcia acted in a duel very experienced and four times sent Salido to canvas. By the end of the fifth round, Orlando had a strong edema over his right eye. In the eighth round, after an accidental head-on collision, Salido broke Garcia’s nose and the fight was stopped on the recommendation of a doctor. Mikey Garcia won the technical decision of the judges, and became the new world champion in versions of WBO and The Ring featherweight [4] .
On June 15, 2013, Mike Garcia fought against Puerto Rican Juan Manuel Lopez . Garcia won the match by TKO in round 4.
Second featherweight
After this fight, Garcia climbed a category higher, and on November 9, 2013, he had a fight against the WBO champion in this weight category of Puerto Rican Roman Martinez . Garcia was knocked down in the 2nd round but controlled the fight and in the 8th round Martinez got into the liver sending him a heavy knockout. Garcia became the new WBO champion in this weight category.
On January 25, 2014, Garcia met with Mexican Juan Carlos Burgos . The fight took place with the advantage of Garcia, to which Burgos only answered with jabs, except that the Mexican was able to shake Garcia with his left hook in the second round. At the end of the battle, all 3 judges gave the victory to the champion 119: 109 and 118: 110 twice, to which the hall answered with a whistle. Garcia unconvincingly defended his title.
Lightweight
On January 28, 2017, he met with the world champion of Montenegrin, Dean Zlatichanin, who did not have defeats. In the 3rd round, Garcia sent Zlatichanin a heavy knockout with a shot to the right and won the WBC lightweight world champion title [5] . In April 2019, he decided not to return to lightweight and was stripped of the WBC title (the title became vacant) and declared "champion on vacation" [6] .
Welterweight
March 16, 2019 held a welterweight bout with American Errol Spence and lost by unanimous decision [7] .
Fight List
The table lists the results of all boxer fights. Each line indicates the result of the match. Additionally, the number of the match is indicated by a color that indicates the outcome of the match. Decoding of symbols and colors is presented in the table below.
| Example | Decryption |
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| Victory | |
| Draw | |
| Defeat | |
| Planned fight | |
| The duel is declared invalid | |
| KO | Knockout |
| TKO | TKO |
| UD, PTS | Judges Unanimous Decision |
| MD | Decision of the majority of judges |
| SD | Judges Separate Decision |
| RTD | Refusal to continue the battle |
| Dq | Disqualification |
| NC | The duel is declared invalid |
See also
- Reigning World Boxing Champions
- List of World Lightweight Boxing Champions
- List of world boxing champions in several weight categories
Notes
- ↑ BoxRec rating. January 2013. Featherweight . BoxRec. Date of treatment January 29, 2013. Archived February 6, 2013.
- ↑ Miguel Angel Garcia knocked out Mauricio Pastrana . Allboxing.ru . Date of treatment January 29, 2013. Archived February 6, 2013.
- ↑ Miguel Angel Garcia knocked out Jonathan Barros . Allboxing.ru . Date of treatment January 29, 2013. Archived February 6, 2013.
- ↑ Miguel Angel Garcia defeated Orlando Salido . Allboxing.ru . Date of treatment January 29, 2013. Archived February 6, 2013.
- ↑ Mikey Garcia knocked out Zlatichanin and became the WBC champion (Russian) (unopened) ? . Allboxing.ru.
- ↑ Mikey Garcia designated as WBC Emeritus Champion
- ↑ Errol Spence defeated Mikey Garcia (Rus.) (Neopr.) ? . vRINGe.com (March 17, 2019). Date of treatment March 18, 2019.
Links
- Garcia, Mikey - professional boxing statistics for BoxRec