García made history with his 4th belt.

[nacho daddy]

Mikey is a beast but the 4 division thing is starting to lose more and more luster. It's more so about the competition, and for.him it's still lacking. I think this was his toughest opponent to date.

yea today you can win in 4 different weight divisions that are within 12 lbs of each other. all you have to do is wait for a weak paper champ drink 2 glasses of water to go up 3 lbs to the next division. means s hit

[elfag]

vacant IBF title against a guy with 12 fights.


pathetic. This doesnt even count. Garcia only has 3 REAL titles.

[TheBigLug]

A lot easier to win belts at several divisions in this era where you can pick and choose than it is to unify.

If these belt collectors want to do something really impressive then start clearing out divisions not fighting paper titlist after paper titlist.

Didn't he win a title by quitting? then Roman Martinez (terrible champion), Zlaticanan (who?) Lipinets (again who? some failed kickboxer with a handful of fights).
He's never even been in a 50/50.

His resume is no better than the next mans only the C level guys they've been beating wasn't handed vacant titles.

Indeed, even Ricky Burns is a 3 weight world champ using this method.

[Pigeons]

That's what I'm saying. It's even harder than this thread suggests.

Looking at recent history, it appears easier than ever. Pacquiao became the 9th 4-weight champion in boxing history in 2008. That's about 120 years of gloved boxing history and Pacquiao was the 9th.

Since September 2011 (less than 7 years), there have been 8 more fighters that have become 4-weight champions. The accomplishment has become watered down.

The standard now lies at the 5-weight mark (Hearns, Leonard, De La Hoya (6), Mayweather, and Pacquiao (8)).

[QuebecSTAR2]

mikey ze mexican meat PEDcia.

[£-4-£]

Pacquiao never won a recognized world title at 126 or 140.

Non-sense. Pacquaio knocked out Hatton, who was Lineal Champion at 140lbs at the time. That lineage came from Tszyu. So yes, Pacquaio was the only TRUE champion at 140lbs.

[thecomedian2]

And I believe only the 4th fighter in history to win titles in 4 divisions undefeated. The others being ODLH, Mayweather and Chocolatito.

Mikey Garcia is an excepcional fighter and I congratulate him for is 4th division championship.

[Jsmooth9876]

It's a good accomplishment for Mikey but I think he's even better than that. I think Mikey could be a unified champion at 135 AND 140 lbs at the same time. Yes, he's that much better than the current crop of champions at these weights.

I like that he didn't forget about the unfinished business at 135, he can still go down to 135 to fight Easter, which Mikey should beat in a competitive fight and then fight Linares, which would be a great fight between the 2 best fundamentally sound fighters in the sport and then Mikey could move back up to fight one of the other champs at 140. Now that's an accomplishment to talk about and after he's done with all of that and there's nobody else to fight at 140 then he can try his luck at 147 in a big money fight that he can retire after.

Hopefully the IBF don't pull some of thier notorious bull**** and strip Mikey for fighting at another weight class and postponing one of their meaningless mandatories. The hardest thing about unifying these days are these money hungry sanctioning bodies forcing fighters to fight meaningless fights nobody wants to see so that they can make some money, hopefully they give Mikey the chance to chase greatness.

It's like this guy right here forgot Lomachenko had ever been born lol.

[Mexican_Puppet]

Mikey's 4 divisions means less than Broners. It's the worst cherry pick case of all-time. Solid fighter but he's Cherry Garcia. He makes Danny look like Duran.

False.

Best wins of Broner were Ponce de León and a shot Malignaggi.

Best wins of García are Salido, the same Broner and Lipinets that was better than a shot Paulie.

Plus, García is way better than Broner.

Poor hater.

[Mexican_Puppet]

How you gonna discredit Broner but big ups Garcia for beating a unproven guy with 13 fights?

Because Broner always was a sh.it of a boxer. He won fights bullying his rival.

García is way better and have better resume in 4 divisions than Broner.

Same fighter that was schooled by García.