Mikey Garcia can be like Pacquiao and win 4-5 division world titles, says trainer

mikey5By Dan Ambrose: Robert Garcia, the trainer and brother of WBO super featherweight champion Mikey Garcia (33-0, 28 KO’s), believes that Mikey can become like Manny Pacquiao by moving up in in weight class after weight class to capture world titles. Mikey has already won two world titles in different weight classes, and now Robert Garcia believes that he’s capable of winning 4 to 5 division world titles.

If Robert’s not counting the two division titles that Mikey has already captured, that would mean Mikey would have to capture world titles at lightweight, light welterweight, welterweight, junior middleweight and middleweight in order to realize Robert Garcia’s vision of him winning another 5 division titles. If he’s only taking about Mikey winning 5 world titles in total, then that would mean that would mean that Mikey would stop at welterweight. But that, of course, wouldn’t make Mikey like another Pacquiao because he captured world titles in 8 divisions. Mikey would be more like Miguel Cotto or Juan Manuel Marquez if he wins 4-5 world titles.

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Mikey Garcia wants Yuriorkis Gamboa next

garcia56By Dan Ambrose: Newly crowned WBO super featherweight champion Mikey Garcia (33-0, 28 KO’s) is targeting interim WBA lightweight champion Yuriorkis Gamboa (23-0, 16 KO’s) next following Mikey’s 8th round KO win over WBO super featherweight champion Roman “Rocky” Martinez (27-2-2, 16 KO’s) last Saturday night at the American Bank Center, in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Garcia said this to HBO about a potential fight against Gamboa: “I’m willing to go up and meet him at 135 if he doesn’t want to come down. I think it would be a great fight. People would want to see it. Why not? Let’s do it. I think anybody they put in front of me, I’m ready to fight.”

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Roman Martinez should make Mikey Garcia look good tonight

mikey56By Dan Ambrose: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum has wisely chosen the perfect fighter for Mikey Garcia (32-0, 27 KO’s) to be facing in his first fight in the 130 lb. division by matching him against WBO super featherweight champion Roman “Rocky” Martinez (27-1-2, 16 KO’s) tonight at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Martinez is a fighter that should make Mikey look good, and probably a lot better than he is. Roman is arguably the weakest of the four super featherweight champions, and the most beatable one for Mikey to pick up a title against. It’s not that Mikey isn’t a good fighter, because he’s definitely a quality fighter. But there are major question marks about him after his performance against Orlando Salido from last January.

What we saw specifically in that fight was that Mikey was good for 5 rounds, but then he lost a lot of his power after those rounds, and he didn’t look good when Salido began to take the fight to him. Mikey’s corner quickly pulled the trigger in having the fight stopped once he suffered a nose injury in the 8th round, and it coincided with Salido starting to really get to Mikey.

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Martirosyan with tough battle against Andrade on Saturday

HBO’s hit late-night boxing franchise presents an action-packed tripleheader when HBO BOXING AFTER DARK: ROCKY MARTINEZ VS. MIKEY GARCIA, NONITO DONAIRE VS. VIC DARCHINYAN II AND VANES MARTIROSYAN VS. DEMETRIUS ANDRADE is seen SATURDAY, NOV. 9 at 9:30 p.m. (live ET/tape-delayed PT) from the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Tex., exclusively on HBO. The HBO Sports team of Jim Lampley, Max Kellerman and Roy Jones Jr. will be ringside for the event, which will be available in HDTV, closed-captioned for the hearing-impaired and presented in Spanish on HBO Latino.

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Ariza thinks Mikey Garcia can find success like Pacquiao

garcia4543By Chris Williams: This Saturday night Mikey Garcia (32-0, 27 KO’s) will be challenging WBO super featherweight champion Roman Martinez (27-1-2, 16 KO’s) for his title on HBO from the American Bank Center, in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA. Garcia’s strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza is excited about the transformation that Mikey’s body has gone through recently while following his strength and conditioning regimen.

Ariza said to fighthype “I’ve seen what happened to Manny, especially physically…with how he went to the next level…I’m seeing Mikey doing the same…he’s only going to get bigger, stronger…start moving down the divisions.”

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Top 5 Under 25: The Future Faces of Boxing

canelo677By Chester Rivers: It’s time to face reality. Floyd Mayweather Jr., Manny Pacquiao and Sergio Martinez are on their way out, and boxing desperately need some young fresh fighters to pick up were these legends will soon leave off. The following list is my top 5 candidates who, if promoted properly, could be the next face of boxing.

1). Miguel “Mikey” Garcia, age 25, (32-0, 27 KO’s) Mikey has the potential to someday top the pound-for-pound list. Garcia’s resume list former champions Orlando Salido and Juan Manuel Lopez as his victims. Mikey did have trouble making weight in his last fight which resulted in the young champion losing his title on the scales. Lucky for us Garcia has outgrown the featherweight division and will now be competing in the deeper junior lightweight division against alphabet champ Rocky Martinez. Garcia should dispose of Martinez quite easily gaining his second world title in his second division.

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Jhonny Gonzalez wants Rigondeaux, Donaire and Mikey Garcia

gonzalez44By Chris Williams: Newly crowned WBC featherweight champion Jhonny Garcia (55-8, 47 KO’s) revitalized his career last Saturday night with a spectacular 1st round knockout win over Abner Mares (26-1-1, 14 KO’s) at the StubHub Center, in Carson, California, USA. Gonzalez is now talking about wanting to fight one of the following fighters according to Fightnews.com: Mikey Garcia, Nonito Donaire and Guillermo Rigondeaux for his next fight.

Gonzalez said to Fightnews “I hope to have opportunities to face Nonito Donaire, Mikey Garcia and Guillermo Rigondeaux.”

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Nonito Donaire to fight on HBO on November 9th in doubleheader

donaire147By Chris Williams: Former two division world champion Nonito Donaire (31-2, 20 KO’s) will be back in the ring on November 9th against an opponent still to be determined on HBO as part of a double-header, according to Steve Kim.

Former WBO featherweight champion Mikey Garcia will be fighting on the card against WBO super featherweight champion Roman “Rocky” Martinez. There’s no word about which fight will be the main event.

It’s hard to picture Donaire fighting in the main event with the way that he was easily beaten by WBA super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux last April.

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WBO orders Roman Martinez vs. Mikey Garcia

garcia515By Dan Ambrose: WBO super featherweight champion Roman Martinez (27-1-2, 16 KO’s) has until October to fight against #1 WBO, Mikey Garcia (33-0, 27 KO’s) or else they’ll strip Martinez of his title.

The World Boxing Organization ordered the mandatory defense for Martinez despite the fact that he recently defened his WBO title against his mandatory challenger Juan Carlos Burgos 6 months ago in January. It looks like the WBO is in a hurry to have Roman Martinez face Mikey Garcia for some reason.

Mikey lost his WBO featherweight title last June when he failed to make weight for his mismatch against Juan Manuel Lopez. The fight still went ahead with Mikey destroying Lopez in the 4th round, but they WBO featherweight strap was stripped from.

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Rigondeaux could be back on HBO in November

rigondeaux00By Chris Williams: WBA/WBO super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux (12-0, 8 KO’s) may not be off of HBO after all. Last week, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum said that he’d received little interest from HBO executives when he mentioned putting Rigondeaux back on the network following his 12 round unanimous decision win over the popular HBO fighter Nonito Donaire last April.

Arum how apparently has convinced the HBO top brass to let Rigondeaux possibly fight on the undercard of WBO featherweight champion Mikey Garcia’s next fight, according to Steve Kim at Maxboxing. That’s not what you’d ideally want given Rigondeaux’s big win over Donaire. You would think he would deserve a top billing, but that’s not going to happen.

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