Mikey Garcia cemented his status as one of the standout talents in world boxing after moving to 38-0 this past weekend.
The decorated boxer-puncher captured his fourth world title against the previously undefeated Sergey Lipinets this past weekend.
Garcia looked crisp and accurate as he dropped and proceed to dismantle the former IBF jr-welterweight champion over 12 rounds.
Reflecting on how he felt after stepping up to world championship level in his fourth weight class. Garcia claimed that he could feel more of a thud when his opponent would land to the head.
“I did feel the punches he landed to the head. You can feel the difference,” Garcia said about Lipinets.
“The game plan was to fight smart because he’s a strong, dangerous fighter, so I was looking to make the fight as easy as possible for me.”
“There were moments when I was against the ropes allowing him to come and exchange punches, but I was trying to wait for a counter,”
”He wasn’t really troubling me,” Mikey said of Lipinets.
Garcia felt he could have stood his ground and decided to trade the leather more with his adversary but he claimed he didn’t want to give Lipinets any chance to exploit the size differential and land something telling.
”I even felt like I could stand inside and put some pressure on and exchange some punches, but at the same time if I do that I risk getting hit.”
I didn’t need to risk. If we’re winning comfortably on the outside, then keep doing that. I was landing some great shots on the outside.
Elsewhere another hot topic for Garcia, has been a potential super-fight against 2x Olympic Gold medalist, Vasyl Lomachenko. Garcia is basically sick of going down the same old road hounding Lomachenko to come up in weight.
Garcia shared he seems to think that he has his own agenda.
“If he wants to come up, I’ve been calling him out for a year and he still hasn’t moved up,” Garcia said about Lomachenko at the post-fight press conference last Saturday.
“He’s the one fighting Beltran. They got their own agenda. I’m already at 140, possibly 147. He’s doing what I did 3 to 4 years ago;” Garcia concluded.
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