Robert Garcia: record, next fight and profile →
Robert Garcia has become one of the top trainers in the game. He will be in Nonito Donaire's corner Saturday, when the Filipino star faces Toshiaki Nishioka - as well as Brandon Rios' when he takes on Mike Alvarado in a junior welterweight showdown. He believes that as long as Amir Khan was going to make a change, Virgil Hunter was a good choice for a new trainer. Khan recently parted ways with Freddie Roach.
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WBO/IBF super bantamweight champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire, who is deep in training for his clash with WBC super champion Toshiaki Nishioka of Japan at the Home Depot Center on October 13, “looks good” according to his trainer Robert Garcia while Donaire added “I’m ready to go.”
WBO/IBF super bantamweight champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire who is deep in training for his clash with WBC super champion Toshiaki Nishioka of Japan at the Home Depot Center on October 13, “ looks good .” That’s the assessment of trainer and former world champion Robert Garcia who is taking two new sparring partners to the Undisputed Gym in San Carlos City, California to work out with Donaire.
Ernest Gabion catches up with trainer Robert Garcia to discuss Nonito Donaire's battle with Toshiaki Nishioka and Brandon Rios taking on Mike Alvarado.
ALA Promotions, headed by its president Michael Aldeguer, plans a big leap for its roster of talented fighters, following its staging of “Pinoy Pride XV,” one of the most exciting fight cards in recent months at the Waterfront Hotel and Casino, held in cooperation with ABS-CBN. Junior welterweight Jason Pagara, who showed a remarkable change from the fighter, who lost a lopsided 10-round decision to rugged Mexican Rosbel Montoya last September, scored a sixth-round technical knockout in their rematch telecast last Sunday.
The WBA flyweight world champion, Hernan "Tyson" Marquez, has spent two weeks in his training camp in Oxnard, California, working with Robert Garcia for the highly anticipated unification bout with WBO king Brian Viloria, scheduled for Sept. 29th at a venue to be defined in the State of California. "Tyson" Marquez (34-2-1, 26 KOs) is putting in the best work possible to overcome "Hawaiian Punch" Viloria (31-3-0, 18 KOs). It will be a co-promotion by Zanfer and Top Rank and televised in Mexico by Azteca 7.
LOS ANGELES - Josh Valdez Championship Boxing, a business enterprise led by health business executive Josh Valdez and superstar trainer and former IBF Lightweight champion Roberto Garcia, has launched in order to stabilize fighter futures in and out of the ring.
WBA flyweight champion Hernan "Tyson" Marquez is going to make some training changes for his scheduled unification against WBO champion Brian Viloria, which takes place on September 29th at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California.
World class trainer and former IBF junior lightweight champion Robert Garcia said Thursday that the firing of his brother, Danny, as trainer of Vicious Victor Ortiz has no bearing on family relations.