Once upon a time, "Mickey Mouse" Mickey Garcia was once a big hit, at the top of the P4P list at the peak, and was regarded as an ideal candidate for the future Hall of Fame, but Garcia's final achievements did not reach the height of public expectations.
The watershed moment in Garcia's career was his 2019 upgrade to 147-pound welterweight champion Errol Spence, which cost Garcia his first career defeat and had a huge impact on him. Some argue that since losing to Spence, Garcia has completely changed, lost his confidence and learned to splurge on the bad of show-off.
Garcia's fight density has been low since the defeat to Spence, and although he defeated former champion Jesse Vargas, he lost in a 2021 clash with Spaniard Sandel Martin. At that time, Garcia was away from the ring for 20 months, looking very jerky, and finally lost to Martin by points, and this fight was rated by many media as the biggest upset of the year, so that the frustrated Garcia soon announced the end of his career and officially retired from boxing.
At first, some people felt that Garcia's retirement was grandstanding and expected to return to boxing at the right time, but Garcia repeatedly stressed through Instagram that his retirement was real and would not return.
Garcia's attitude seems to have loosened now, and 14 months after his last game, his older brother and coach Robert Garcia revealed that his brother may be back in the ring. Robert Garcia said: "He is thinking about this and has been training in the gym for the past few weeks. ”
Although Robert Garcia can't be sure if his brother will definitely return to boxing, he hints that it is highly possible.
Mitch Garcia's talent is undoubtedly the most accomplished in the family. Mitch Garcia has won four titles: featherweight, super featherweight, lightweight, and super lightweight, but his career has not been too smooth, and now he seems to be a bit of a tiger. Soon after Garcia's rise, a lawsuit with former promoter Bob Arum led to a long cold bench, otherwise his achievements would have been more prominent during this period. Garcia has said he plans to win five world titles in different divisions, on par with the greats of boxing such as Floyd Mayweather and Shuge-Ray Leonard, and that it will be achieved if Garcia beats Spence in 2019, but he failed to achieve his dream.
In the past few years, Garcia has been more like waiting for a match than fighting for it, such as spending almost two years waiting to face Manny Pacquiao, and the two sides reached a verbal agreement, but in the end, Pacquiao abandoned Garcia, so that Garcia missed the opportunity to earn a high honorarium. The outside world believes that Garcia should remain active and engage in quality confrontation so that he can get real opportunities.
This month, Garcia celebrated his 35th birthday, his professional record is 40-2, 30 knockouts, Garcia is not young, but not old, if you really want to return to the ring, then it is better to hurry, otherwise in a few years, it will be completely closed.