Did Mikey Garcia ruin his legacy?

He had a good career though he could had done more. He is the opposite of Ryan Garcia, he fought at a weight class he belongs to from the start, he wasn't athletically gifted and for a textbook fighter he was very fundamentally sound. He has held multiple world championships in four weight divisions. Competing from Featherweight to Welterweight. His resume isn't bad if you analyze his fights Orlando Salido (40-11-2): Lost competitively going the distance against Juan Manuel Marquez at his prime. Had a win over a Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero but was ruled a NC as Salido failed a drug test. After that Guerrero went into winning streak winning against the likes of Joel Casamayor, Michael Katsidis and Andre Berto. Beaten Cesar Soto who handed Jose Luis Castillo his first loss and beaten Luisito Espinoza in a rematch. Faced a Prime Yuriorkis Gamboa before his loss to Terrance Crawford and lost. KO Juan Manuel Lopez X2 before facing Mikey Garcia. After his loss to Mickey Garcia at the end of his career he managed to take a win against Lomachenko by using his dirty tactics. Juan Manuel Lopez (33-2-0): Beaten Jonathan Oquendo. Beaten Prime Daniel Ponce de Leon. Beaten Gerry Penalosa Beaten Rafael Marquez albeit this after the trilogy against Israel Vazquez. Lost twice to Salido by knockout but had two tune ups winning via KO against unknown fighters before facing Mikey Garcia. After his loss against Mikey, he won against Ponce de Leon once more before going through a losing streak. {"data-align":"none","data-size":"custom","height":"305","title":"1.gif?_ga=2.238300288.1285703589.1656719393-1114385623.1656719392.gif","width":"542","data-attachmentid":31480518} Adrien Broner (33-2-0): At age 21 he had beaten by decision Daniel Ponce De Leon who was in a long winning streak after his loss against Juan Manuel Lopez. He knocked out Jason Litzau, who beaten Celestino who beaten a few champions at the time. He beaten Antonio DeMarco who gave a difficult fight to Edwin Valero before losing by KO, knocked out Jorge Linares in the eleventh round who after his prime gave a Devin Haney a difficult bout. Before facing Adrian Broner, he also racked another two good wins against Miguel Roman and John Molina Jr by KO. He had beaten Paulie Malignaggi who was coming from two good wins. Lost to Marcos Maidana by a brutal beating by decision. Was in a winning streak against John and Carlos Molina until he faced Shawn Porter and lost by decision. Was in a winning streak against Khabib Allakhverdiev, Ashley Theophane and Adrian Granados before facing Mickey Garcia. Robert Easter (21-0-0): He had beaten the KO artiest Richard Commey handing him his first loss, who was at the time 24 wins with 22 KOs, after his loss he has beaten the likes of Jackson Marinez and Ray Beltran and had losses against Teofimo Lopez and Lomachenko. He is currently going to face Jose Pedraza. He had beaten Denis Shakifov who beaten Jemel Harring by KO and a win decision against Richard Commey. He had beaten Javier Fortuna who was in a winning streak agaisnt four unknown fighters after his loss to Jason Sosa, prior to that he had some good wins such as Cristobal Cruz, Miguel Roman and Abner Cotto. He is currently going to fight Ryan Garcia after his competitive loss to Joseph Diaz. Robert Easter recently made a comeback to light welterweight. Mikey Garcia first loss was to a 29-year-old Errol Spence who's a Champion two weight divisions above Mickey's competing at the elite level today, and his second loss was against an unknown light welterweight after being unactive for a long time, losing in a boring fashion. Despite that Spence was winning by knockout in every fight before facing Mickey Garcia from September 11, 2014, to June 16, 2018 even though he won in a dominating fashion. Mickey currently has a record of 40-2-0 with 30 KOs which isn't bad at all. His fighting record from 2010 to 2018 is pretty good. {"alt":"Click image for larger version Name:\tMickey Garcia Resume Part 2.JPG Views:\t0 Size:\t236.3 KB ID:\t31480503","data-align":"none","data-attachmentid":"31480503","data-size":"custom","height":"501","title":"Mickey Garcia Resume Part 2.JPG","width":"1060"} Does he have the best resume? No, Could he had done more? Yes he just retired at age 34. But I think he deserves the credit he is due without backhanded compliments just because his career ended the way it did.

He ruined his legacy when he ducked Loma.

Mikey was never really all that good.. Yeah he's good with the basic boxing fundamental but it takes more than that to become great! Could have made some good money but he turned down those fights.. Any Mexican whips up on koons easy Mikey got this money he just babbled in boxing when will pink putos honor the treaty of Guadalupe Hildago and pay me my money fvcking m o n e y Reparations pay me in work, gas or pretty azz honky as pink punk mo fvcners

8 million vs Spence His guarantee wasn't 8 million. And I don't know what he made from ppv. That's why I said 2 million. That was his guarantee

mikey made 10 million on his way out 2 million vs spence 7 million vs vargas 1 million vs Martin He made the right decision for his life after boxing. Lomachenko is the only fight we ever cared about for mikey and Bob was never gonna pay mikey for that fight after the way mikey left top rank. so mikey made the right decision financially. 8 million vs Spence

Considered one of the top fighters in the lighter divisions and instead of giving us great fights and enhancing his resume he literally pissed it all away just because "he dared to be great" moving up to fight Spence. Meanwhile after Loma beat Linares it was perfect time to make a super fight and crown a lineal Champion. He instead vacated the WBC title and caused the mess of the vacant title to begin with. Plenty of great legacy match ups in his own weight class with a lot of young rising stars to fight. Instead he ends his career on a loss against a nobody. - - Arrived at that perfect point in time where he was doing most of his training at the dinner table. Made his money with noggin still intact and a man of his people unlike U.

Legacy ?!?!?

Considered one of the top fighters in the lighter divisions and instead of giving us great fights and enhancing his resume he literally pissed it all away just because "he dared to be great" moving up to fight Spence. Meanwhile after Loma beat Linares it was perfect time to make a super fight and crown a lineal Champion. He instead vacated the WBC title and caused the mess of the vacant title to begin with. Plenty of great legacy match ups in his own weight class with a lot of young rising stars to fight. Instead he ends his career on a loss against a nobody. Idiotic career tbh. Shelved himself for 3 years in his absolute prime because he wouldn’t fight Gamboa. And then capped it off agreeing to fight Spence. Kell Brook tier stupid mistake

If people couldn’t see the greatness in him. They don’t know boxing. I was very disappointed cause I knew how great he was at 135. People don’t understand how powerful people bully. He was one of the few who fought back. Some men are true warriors that aren’t going to let people walk all over them. Ward was another. Ali too. 99% of people “bend the knee”.

Considered one of the top fighters in the lighter divisions and instead of giving us great fights and enhancing his resume he literally pissed it all away just because "he dared to be great" moving up to fight Spence. Meanwhile after Loma beat Linares it was perfect time to make a super fight and crown a lineal Champion. He instead vacated the WBC title and caused the mess of the vacant title to begin with. Plenty of great legacy match ups in his own weight class with a lot of young rising stars to fight. Instead he ends his career on a loss against a nobody. The Loma fight was never on the table.

Legacy? What legacy? He had some good/decent fights. No more no less. He fcuked up by not fighting Loma and a few other big names between 135 & 140. He had no biz at 147

What legacy?

No , Mikey came from a family that has made their living in the ring .He followed suit , never really loved the sport was really good but no great retired with his health and money .

Legacy is the last thing people should talk about in this current state of the sport. Meaningful fights are hardly made. Fighters fight once a year... It's a joke.

If he retired an undefeated 4 division champion before fighting Spence people would rate him MUCH higher. Just like if Canelo had avoided Bivol or Jones avoided the Tarver rematch. Don’t kid yourselves.

Considered one of the top fighters in the lighter divisions and instead of giving us great fights and enhancing his resume he literally pissed it all away just because "he dared to be great" moving up to fight Spence. Meanwhile after Loma beat Linares it was perfect time to make a super fight and crown a lineal Champion. He instead vacated the WBC title and caused the mess of the vacant title to begin with. Plenty of great legacy match ups in his own weight class with a lot of young rising stars to fight. Instead he ends his career on a loss against a nobody. mikey made 10 million on his way out 2 million vs spence 7 million vs vargas 1 million vs Martin He made the right decision for his life after boxing. Lomachenko is the only fight we ever cared about for mikey and Bob was never gonna pay mikey for that fight after the way mikey left top rank. so mikey made the right decision financially.

Him against Loma was one of the best, if not the best fight to make at one point and that was ruined because he wanted to move up and "challenge" himself, even though he put in a complete piss poor performance. Guess he figured better to lose against someone like Spence than Loma.

Kind of meh feelings about him. I even forgot about his existence until this thread. I don't recall any mega matchup he went into besides Spence. You can be a multi-division champion these days easier than the past. Weight class are less apart than they used to be. If you fight a bunch of stiffs in each weight class, does it even matter?

He could have retired undefeated if stayed away from 147.

Stopped caring about Mikey Garcia after his atrocious Spence performance. Didn't care if he lost the fight, but he put no effort in even trying to win, and pumping his fist after surviving a round was just...