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Criticisms of Mikey Garcia Carry No Worthwhile Weight

Criticisms of Mikey Garcia Carry No Worthwhile Weight

Lyle Fitzsimmons

•Jun 18, 2013

By Lyle Fitzsimmons - The boxing crowd is a notoriously tough one to please. Sit at a fight for a minute or two of less-than-Hagler/Hearns action and you’re likely to hear boos begin raining from the impatient rafters. Decide to give up on a fight with less than a flat-lining heart monitor and you’ll be branded a quitter or a coward by the mom’s basement keyboard set. Or as Mikey Garcia has found since Saturday, fail to boil an already gaunt 128-pound frame down to the legal featherweight limit and have a career-defining win dismissed as both unpardonable and cheap. For whatever reason, that’s the one that’s got me particularly irritated.

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Arum: Garcia Should Forget 126, Go After Martinez

Arum: Garcia Should Forget 126, Go After Martinez

Elisinio Castillo

•Jun 17, 2013

Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum has advised former champion Mikey Garcia (31-0, 27 KOs) to forget about the featherweight division and look full steam ahead at gaining a title at 130-pounds. Arum would like to see Garcia face WBO super featherweight champion Roman "Rocky" Martinez (27-1-2, 16KOs). BoxingScene.com reported on Sunday that Garcia vs. Martinez is being discussed for a September date. Last Friday Garcia lost his WBO title at 126 after failing to make weight. He was two pounds over, but easily knocked out Juan Manuel Lopez in four rounds the following night in Dallas, Texas.

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CompuBox Stats: Garcia's Jab Was Key With Juanma

CompuBox Stats: Garcia's Jab Was Key With Juanma

CompuBox

•Jun 17, 2013

Garcia landed an avg. of 11 of 33 jabs per round- double the wgt. class avg. Even more impressive considering the jab is not usually an effective weapon for an orthodox fighter vs. a southpaw.

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Mikey Garcia-Rocky Martinez In The Works for Sept. 21

Mikey Garcia-Rocky Martinez In The Works for Sept. 21

Jake Donovan

•Jun 16, 2013

Mikey Garcia lost his title on the scales this past weekend, but the relinquishing of the title apparently came with a safety net. The unbeaten featherweight – who came in heavy for his eventual 4th round knockout of Juan Manuel Lopez on Saturday in Dallas – is being steered towards a September 21st showdown with 130 lb. titlist Roman ‘Rocky’ Martinez. The fight was discussed long before last weekend’s HBO-televised doubleheader and before it was discovered that Garcia was struggling at the scales. Even with the future somewhat mapped out, the newly crowned titlist did his best to meet the contracted terms for his first title defense.

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Mikey Garcia: Juanma Still Has a Future, Can Win a Belt

Mikey Garcia: Juanma Still Has a Future, Can Win a Belt

Miguel Rivera

•Jun 16, 2013

Undefeated Mikey Garcia (32-0, 27KOs) believes Juan Manuel Lopez (33-3, 30KOs) is still capable of doing big things in the sport of boxing. Although he's a few weeks away from turning 30, Lopez looked like a shot fighter on Saturday night in Dallas - as Garcia easily finished him off in four one-sided rounds. It was far from the Lopez most remember a few years ago, when he was regarded as one of the best fighters in the sport. The loss to Garcia was Lopez's third TKO defeat in his last six fights.

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Juanma: There Are No Excuses, Mikey Garcia Was Better

Juanma: There Are No Excuses, Mikey Garcia Was Better

Elisinio Castillo

•Jun 16, 2013

Former two division world champion Juan Manuel "Juanma" Lopez (33-3, 30 KOs) has no excuses about his fourth round stoppage loss to Mikey Garcia (32-0, 27 KOs) on Saturday night at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas. The fight was stopped in the fourth after Lopez was down for the second time in the fight. The Puerto Rican fighter plans to return even stronger, and won't even use Garcia's weight advantage as an excuse for the loss. Garcia weighed two pounds over the featherweight limit on Friday, and as a result he lost his WBO title. Rather than kill his body by squeezing down to 126, he paid Juanma a six figure sum.

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Abner Mares is Ready For Mikey Garcia, Rigondeaux

Abner Mares is Ready For Mikey Garcia, Rigondeaux

Jose Luis Camarillo

•Jun 16, 2013

WBC featherweight champion Abner Mares (26-0-1, 14KOs) is ready to fight any of the champions or other top fighters at 126-pounds. Mares watched Mikey Garcia's four round destruction of former two division champion Juan Manuel Lopez. Mares would love to face Garcia (32-0, 27KOs), but their promotional situation would prevent that fight. Mares is with Golden Boy Promotions, while Garcia is handled by Top Rank - and the two companies rarely do any business together.

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Garcia Defends “0” If Not Title, Blasts Shot JuanMa

Garcia Defends “0” If Not Title, Blasts Shot JuanMa

Cliff Rold

•Jun 16, 2013

by Cliff Rold - One day after losing his WBO Featherweight belt on the scales after missing weight by two pounds, 25-year old Mikey Garcia (32-0, 27 KO) of Oxnard, California, laid four rounds of beating on 29-year old former 122 and 126 lb. titlist Juan Manuel Lopez (33-3, 30 KO) of Caguas, Puerto Rico, for what turned out to be an easy win on Saturday night at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas. The referee was Rafael Ramos. The drama of the fight came before the opening bell at Friday’s weigh-in. Lopez, who had moved to 130 lbs. before agreeing to drop back down for this title opportunity, made weight at 125 ¼ while Garcia came in at 128. A cash settlement reported in the six figures allowed the fight to go on with the title on the line only for Lopez. The title remains vacant. The first was largely a feeling out round, Garcia’s best work coming off his stiff left jab. Lopez, a southpaw, landed a couple of straight lefts to lay out his intentions. A minute into the second, Lopez was tagged with a hard left hook and then right hand, his legs saying he’d felt the punches. After taking a jab down the middle, Lopez mugged at Garcia but had no leather to show for it. With just less than a minute left in the first, a right hand put Lopez down on the seat of his trunks.

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Mikey Garcia Knocks Juanma Out in The Fourth Round

Mikey Garcia Knocks Juanma Out in The Fourth Round

BoxingScene Staff

•Jun 15, 2013

American Airlines Center, Dallas, Texas - Mikey Garcia (32-0, 27KOs) stopped former two division world champion Juan Manuel "Juanma" Lopez (33-3, 30KOs) in the fourth round. Garcia's jab was touching Juanma in the first. Lopez was able to land a few good lefts. In the second, Garcia started landing his own left hand. But then out of nowhere a counter right hand sent Juanma down on his seat. Juanma made it up and survived the round. Garcia started landing his hands go in the third and tagging Juanma with hard punches.

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CompuBox Historical Analysis - Garcia vs. Juanma Clash

CompuBox Historical Analysis - Garcia vs. Juanma Clash

CompuBox

•Jun 15, 2013

Mikey Garcia more efficient and landed 43% of his power punches, while opponents (Salido, Barros, Concepcion, Guzman, Martinez, Remillard) landed just 21% of their total punches & 28% of power shots. The busier (and reckless) Juan Manuel Lopez landed just 3 jabs per round, while opponents (Salido I & II, Marquez, Oliver, Santos) landed 40% of their power shots.

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