
Mikey Garcia: record, next fight and profile →


Along with Manny Pacquiao, Shawn Porter, Lucian Bute and Mikey Garcia have been added to the International Boxing Hall of Fame ballot for induction in 2025.

There’s so many steps in the process of training a fighter, and it all rushed upon Robert Garcia Saturday night as he met his unbeaten junior middleweight Vergil Ortiz Jr. at the close of the ninth round.

The Daily Bread Mailbag returns with Stephen “Breadman” Edwards giving his thoughts on Mikey Garcia’s many accomplishments, whether Jake Paul could have beaten the Kevin McBride who fought Mike Tyson, William Zepeda’s performance against Maxi Hughes and Zepeda’s future and much more.

Manny Pacquiao is another fighter that doesn’t know when to walk away. The 44-year-old former eight-division champ recently announced that he’s making a full comeback in 2024. What’s difficult to some, however, was a walk in the park for Mikey Garcia. Although he was entangled in long stretches of inactivity at times, Garcia put together the sort of career that most can only dream of.

Trainer Robert Garcia shared in December that his brother and former four-division champion Mikey Garcia was contemplating ending his brief retirement.

The boldness of Mikey Garcia was once loudly applauded. Viewed as a pound-for-pound luminary in his prime, Garcia, after spending the entirety of his career competing in the lower weight classes, brazenly decided to try his hand at 147 pounds. Greeting him at the welterweight door, of course, was current unified champion, Errol Spence Jr.

The much-anticipated bout between Terence Crawford and Errol Spence Jr. officially fell through the cracks on Oct. 20 after monthslong negotiations when Crawford announced he’d instead be fighting David Avanesyan on Dec. 10.

Terence Crawford never felt that he could get a fair shake from Al Haymon, so long as he was on “the wrong side.” Crawford recently lifted the lid on his side of the negotiations for the scuttled undisputed welterweight bout between

Former four division world champion Mikey Garcia is backing IBF, WBA, WBC, WBO super middleweight world champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez in the upcoming trilogy fight with Gennady Golovkin.