Mikey Garcia: record, next fight and profile →
Promoter Fernando Beltran of Zanfer Promotions has confirmed that undefeated top featherweight contender Miguel Ángel “Mikey” García has been added to this Saturday's Tecate Box Tour event in Los Mochis, Mexico. The Zanfer card will be televised on Azteca 7.
Orlando "Siri" Salido (39-11-2) had a successful return to the ring on July 28th when he knocked out Moises Gutierrez (21-5) in three rounds in a non-title bout. The fight was Salido's first since his 10th round knockout of Juan Manuel Lopez in their highly anticipated rematch this past March. Salido first defeated Lopez in April 2011.
A sure-fire barn burner was recently announced, as former lightweight champion Brandon 'Bam Bam' Rios will be facing off with junior welterweight contender Mike Alvarado in his first fight at 140 pounds. Set to go down on October 13th at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California, Rios-Alvarado will serve as the HBO-televised co-feature to junior featherweight champ Nonito Donaire's clash with Japan's Toshiaki Nishioka.
Featherweight contender Miguel "Mikey" Garcia is tentatively scheduled to face WBO featherweight champion Orlando Salido either in October or on November 10th on the televised pay-per-view undercard of Manny Pacquiao's next fight. He was supposed to have a tune-up fight on the undercard of Salido's July 28th fight but it fell through.
Ryan Burton catches up with undefeated featherweight contender Mikey Garcia to discuss a potential upcoming showdown with WBO champion Orlando Salido.
While nothing is official as of yet, it seems evident that IBF/WBO junior featherweight champion Nonito Donaire will be returning in a few months’ time to defend his belts against all-action multi-division champion Jorge Arce. The location of the Donaire-Arce fight is still up in the air, with Los Angeles and Texas both in the running, and while the fight figures to be entertaining, there are some who can’t help but look at the matchup as a mismatch in the Fil-Am star’s favor.
Sources close to WBA "regular" featherweight champion Celestino "Pelenchín" Caballero (36-4, 23KOs) have advised BoxingScene.com that Mikey Garcia (28-0, 24KOs) is no longer interested in facing him for the title. No surprise, as the fight had twists and turns on a weekly basis. Garcia is moving in another direction, with Top Rank finalizing plans to match him against WBO champion Orlando Salido (38-11-2, 26KOs) on an HBO date in October. Garcia and Salido will co-headline a card in Mexico on July 28th.
BoxingScene.com has been advised that the World Boxing Association has sided with promoter Sampson Lewkowicz in his ongoing dispute with WBA "regular" featherweight champion Celestino "Pelenchín" Caballero (36-4, 23KOs). Lewkowicz, who doesn't promote either boxer involved, secured the rights to Caballero's mandatory defense against Mikey Garcia (28-0, 24KOs) by winning a WBA purse bid with a monetary submission of $440,000.
Last night at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, determined underdog Josesito Lopez pulled off the biggest victory in his career after outlasting former champion Victor Ortiz. After nine heated and action-packed rounds, Ortiz, citing a broken jaw, elected not to continue and the fight was called off.
The world championship committee of the World Boxing Association will investigate the situation related to the cancellation of the fight between Panamanian featherweight champion Celestino 'Pelenchín' Caballero and undefeated mandatory challenger Miguel 'Mikey' Garcia.