CompuBox Stats: Garcia Dropped 51% of Power in Win
Mikey Garcia dominated from the opening bell. Garcia landed 51% of his power shots, dropping Orlando Salido four times.
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Salido: My Nose Was Broken Too, Mexicans Don't Quit!
Featherweight Orlando Salido feels he was not given a full fight versus Mikey Garcia last night in New York City. Following the match, Salido who went to Roosevelt Hospital for a check up, and tests revealed that he suffered a broken nose. The former champion is not exactly sure when he suffered the injury, but he believes his nose was busted in the early rounds.
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Photos: Garcia Unseats Salido, Golovkin Batters Rosado
The Theater, Madison Square Garden, New York - Mikey Garcia (31-0, 26 KOs) captured the WBO featherweight crown by unseating Orlando “Siri” Salido (39-12-2, 27 KOs) with an eight round technical decision. Salido went down four time in the fight. The match was stopped in the eight round after Garcia's nose was broken from a Salido headbutt. The scores were 79-70, 79-69, 79-69 for Garcia.
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Orlando Salido Livid: Garcia's Corner Was Ready To Quit!
NEW YORK — Mikey Garcia would’ve fought through a broken nose early Sunday morning, but he wasn’t required to do so. Garcia instead won the WBO featherweight title from Orlando Salido by technical decision in The Theater at Madison Square Garden, where their scheduled 12-round fight was stopped due to Garcia’s broken nose. Garcia knocked down Salido four times and was way ahead on all three scorecards when the fight was stopped after eight rounds.
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Video: Mikey Garcia Discusses Victory Over Orlando Salido
Bill Emes catches up with the new WBO featherweight champion Mikey Garcia to discuss his victory over Orlando Salido and more.
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CompuBox Historical Review: Salido vs. Garcia
Contrast in styles. Orlando Salido throws 26 more punches per round. 77% of his thrown punches are power shots. Salido landed nearly double the weight class average in power shots. Salido opponents landed just 20% of their total punches. 61% of Garcia's punches are jabs. Salido landed more power shots per round than Garcia threw per round. Garcia's opponents landed just 19% of their total punches.
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Mikey Garcia is Not Worried About Salido's PED Past
NEW YORK — Orlando Salido reluctantly posed alongside Mikey Garcia for a picture after the final press conference Thursday to promote their fight Saturday night in The Theater at Madison Square Garden. Garcia never thought twice about boxing Salido, despite that Salido has tested positive for a steroid during his career and there wasn’t any random, pre-fight testing for performance-enhancing drugs prior to their 12-round fight for Salido’s WBO featherweight title (9:45 p.m. EDT; HBO). “I’m not afraid of Salido,” Garcia said. “I feel that he did everything the right way. He learned from that a few years back, when he had tested positive for some illegal substance. He did his work and I did my work, and you’ll see it on Saturday night. I never worried about it. He won’t do anything to get caught up in a big scandal. He got caught up in something [in November 2006] and that’s it.”
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Mikey Garcia Motivated By Family, Creating a Legacy
Nothing comes easy for professional prizefighters. Grueling training camps. Early morning runs. Aches and pains that may or may not go away. One would think that undefeated featherweight Miguel Angel Garcia would have it better than other fighters. Both of his older brothers boxed professionally, with Robert becoming a world champion. His father Eduardo, who picked strawberries in the Oxnard Plains, trained Fernando Vargas to a world title. However, Garcia, poised in the ring beyond his 25 years of age, has worked just as hard, if not harder, to demonstrate that he deserving of being called the best. After this Saturday night, he would just be content to be called a world champion.
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Donaire Talks Salido-Garcia, NFC Title Game Pick
Junior featherweight world champion Nonito Donaire is accustomed to fans screaming his name during his fights, but in a role reversal, he’ll be the one losing his voice this weekend. The fun starts on Saturday night when pal Mikey Garcia, younger brother of his trainer Robert Garcia, challenges for his first world title against featherweight incumbent Orlando Salido (HBO, 9:45 p.m. ET/PT). “Robert’s definitely going to have Mikey ready,” Donaire told BoxingScene.com. “I’ll be watching.” At only 25, Garcia (30-0, 26 KOs) has already been pegged as a future pound-for-pound talent under the tutelage of his father Eduardo and brother Robert. With his poise in the pocket and steely poker face, the Police Academy graduate from Oxnard, Calif., has a potent and varied arsenal.
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Orlando Salido-Mikey Garcia: Pre-Fight Report Card
by Cliff Rold - They are fighters who have traveled different paths. The defending titlist turned professional in March 1996 at the tender age of 15, suffering his first of five career stoppage losses. He suffered the last of those five in March 2000, his record a less than average 8-6-1. Then the switch started to flip. Orlando Salido hasn’t been unbeaten since 2000, but if a fight ended early it’s because he ended it. 31-5-1 since that rocky start, he’s faced a who’s who of former champions fighting between the Featherweight and Lightweight limits. Salido went the route in a title try against Juan Manuel Marquez He handed Robert Guerrero his second loss and won his first title in 2006, only to cough it up on a failed test for performance enhancing drugs. He lost and then won in cracks at the IBF title against Cristobal Cruz. He had Yuriorkis Gamboa on the deck before falling twice himself in a decision loss for that crown. Salido is 5-0 since, all of those wins by knockout. The two biggest of those wins give him the title he holds now to the detriment of once undefeated WBO titlist Juan Manuel Lopez. Each of their battles was a candidate for Fight of the Year. In the second, Salido came off the floor to win. He did the same in stopping the unexpected Weng Haya. Orlando Salido is all sorts of blue-collar fighter, and he learned his craft as he went. His challenger this weekend comes to battle from a different path. Part of a fighting family, Mikey Garcia is the brother and mentee of one of the game’s best trainers, Robert Garcia. While Salido was learning to stay on his feet, Garcia was watching his big brother win a title at 130 lbs. and trade shots with some of the best Jr. Lightweights in the world.
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