Three-weight world champion and one of the standout performers in the sport today, Mikey Garcia caught up with ES News yesterday and the topic being discussed was assessing Errol Spence’s recent triumph against Lamont Peterson.
Errol Spence left a badly battered Lamont Peterson to surrender on his stool unable to come out for the fight’s eighth stanza.
Crisp combination punching both to the body and head seemingly taking a toll on the physically overmatched Lamont Peterson.
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Garcia began by sharing he was very impressed by the display, “He is a good fighter, he is definitely polished, he has got the skills and I like his technique.
“His stance, his punch selection, the way he moves. He is definitely very talented;” Garcia added.
Then Garcia responded to suggestions about the similarities between his and Errol Spence’s fighting styles.
They both possess a cautious, sniper boxer-puncher style of fighting and waste few punches.
On the topic of wasted punches, Garcia acknowledged “he doesn’t either.”
But Garcia then shifted the conversation to his own fighters mindset while he was watching the Spence fight. Garcia shared he was watching the fight with his trainer and brother, the renown Robert Garcia who is also a former world champion.
“I was watching the fight and I told Robert, maybe we will move up to welterweight sooner than we were expecting and get him.”
“It could happen, I told Robert maybe by the end of the year.”
“We’ll see how everything goes but that is a fight that will be exciting for us.”
The question of punching power was then presented to Garcia. Garcia however phenomenally gifted he may be in a ring sense began his career at the featherweight limit of 126 lbs.
Errol Spence is a big, strong welterweight in his prime who boils himself down to the 147 lbs limit and could easily campaign as a Jr middleweight or even at middleweight as he has shared several times.
“Those are the types of challenges I really want to take. I still really believe in myself a lot.”
Garcia was quick to claim, however, that he will not be going up to welterweight in the immediate future citing unfinished business lies ahead for him in the lightweight division with Jorge Linares.
Which will come up following his upcoming attempt at Sergey Lipinets’ IBF jr-welterweight world title on March 10.
“It’s not in my plans right now to move up to welterweight before my next fight.”
“We are actually coming back down to lightweight to try to unify the titles and then maybe in the future, a year from now or more,” Garcia concluded.
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