Mikey Garcia is an international professional American boxer. His full name is Miguel Angel Garcia Cortez.
He played in multiple world championships in four weights, including the lineal junior welterweight from 2018 to 2020. In 2019, he was challenged once for the IBF Welterweight.
Garcia’s salary and Net worth
His regular salary is around USD 1 million. He is an American professional boxer who has a net worth of USD 7 million in 2020.
His age and height
He was born on December 15, 1987. As of 2023, his current age is 36 years old. His height is 5 feet 6 inches or 173cm.
His wife or girlfriend
He is recently married to his longtime girlfriend, Fatima Garcia. Garcia and Fatima’s love story started when they met every other in high school. Now, they have three children named Django Garcia and Ryu Garcia.
Mikey Garcia’s boxing ranking, family, record, biography, career, and more
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Mikey Garcia’s boxing career and news
Mikey beat the veteran Tomas Villa in the first round, winning by T.K.O. the USBA Featherweight Championship, in April 2010.
Garcia’s first major step up in opposition came against the WBO Featherweight winner on January 19, 2013, and Ring No. 1-ranked featherweight, Orlando Salido.
It was proclaimed that talks were underway on May 25, 2017, for a fight between Garcia in Brooklyn and world champion Adrien Broner on July 29, 2017, at Barclays Center.
He took to social media and called out four-weight world champion Miguel Cotto in early September 2017 for a fight in December, perhaps being Cotto’s final fight.
The IBF wrote to Garcia, giving him until March 22 to decide whether to keep his IBF title. On March 12, 2018, at light-welterweight, Ivan Baranchyk lined up next.
The IBF ordered Garcia to defend his newly won title on July 31, 2018, against mandatory challenger Richard Commey, with a contract to be signed on August 30, 2018.
His next fight
Garcia returned to the ring in Frisco, Texas, after a layoff of almost a year. He faced former two-division world champion Jessie Vargas at welterweight on February 29, 2020.
On October 16, 2021, after a layoff of almost twenty months since his last fight, he returned to the ring to face European super-lightweight champion Sandor Martin in Fresno, California.
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