Did Mikey Garcia ruin his legacy?

[Motofan]

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.

[rickJen]

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.

[Brother Mouzone]

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 .

[Madison Boxing]

what legacy was there in the first place lol. all this 3 weight, 4 weight world champ thing who cares who did he actually beat, swear everyone is a multiweight champ these days

[jmrf4435]

What legacy?

[El_Mero]

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

[Outwest Exp 355]

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.

[War Room]

He was always going to lose to spence, he fought like a chicken that fight just to survive not trying to win but he loses no matter what.


He was a decent B level guy, he was never an ATG. His thing was he could cut weight more than others and fit into 135. Once that was gone he was only ok at 140 and terrible as a welter.

It is what it is. Not everyone can be an ATG

Dude, Mikey was definitely an A level fighter. He's got some really good wins.

[MONGOOSE66]

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”.

[Pac=Duran]

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 ****** mistake