Who won Garcia vs Burgos?
Mikey Garcia beat Juan Carlos Burgos by unanimous decision in their 12 round contest on Saturday 25th January 2014 at Madison Square Garden in New York.
The scorecards were announced as 118-110, 118-110, 119-109 in favor of winner Mikey Garcia.
The fight was scheduled to take place over 12 rounds in the Super Featherweight division, which meant the weight limit was 130 pounds (9.3 stone or 59 KG).
This contest was for the WBO super featherweight championship of the world.
Garcia vs Burgos stats
Back in January 2014, Mikey Garcia stepped into the ring with an undefeated record of 33 wins, zero loses and 0 draws, 28 of those wins coming by the way of knock out.
Juan Carlos Burgos made his way to the ring with a record of 30 wins, 1 loss and 2 draws, with 20 of those wins by knock out.
The stats suggested Garcia had advantage in power over Burgos, with a 85% knock out percentage over Burgos' 67%.
Mikey Garcia was the same age as Juan Carlos Burgos, at 26 years old.
Burgos had a height advantage of 2 inches over Garcia. That also extended to a 1-inch reach advantage.
Both Mikey Garcia & Juan Carlos Burgos fought out of an orthodox stance.
Garcia was the less experienced professional fighter, having had the same amount of fights, and made his debut in 2006, 1 year and 7 months later than Burgos, whose first professional fight was in 2004. He had fought 71 less professional rounds, 248 to Burgos' 319.
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Garcia's last 4 fights had come over a period of 1 year and 6 days, meaning he had been fighting on average every 3 months and 2 days. In those fights, he fought a total of 24 rounds, meaning that they had lasted 6 rounds on average.
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