{"id":81419,"date":"2019-07-17T06:21:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T12:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=81419"},"modified":"2019-07-17T06:21:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T12:21:48","slug":"ringside-report-looks-back-at-alex-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=81419","title":{"rendered":"Ringside Report Looks Back at Alex Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[AdSense-A]<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=81419\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=81419\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-81420 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/200px-Garcia.Alex2_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a>By Daniel Sisneros<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alex Garcia turned pro on Feb. 6, 1987 with a 1st round knockout of Cliff Melbourne at The Country Club in Reseda, CA. He won his first title with a 12 round unanimous decision over Jerry Jones for both the NABF and WBC Continental Americas Heavyweight Titles in Dec. of 1992. Garcia suffered his 2nd loss in a shocking upset at the hands of Mike Dixon in Las Vegas, NV in June of 1993. He later avenged that loss with a convincing 10 round decision victory over Dixon in the rematch. In 1995 Alex lost his bid for the USBA Heavyweight title, with a unanimous decision loss to defending champion Buster Mathis, JR.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Alex&#8217;s last pro bout was a tko-3 loss to Wallace McDaniel in Memphis Tennessee. Garcia finished with a pro record of 40-6-1, 29 KO&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Purchase Dan&#8217;s Hit Boxing Book Mat Tales: True Stories From The Bizarre, Brutal World Of Pro Boxing by Clicking the Image to ORDER it Now.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mat-Tales-Stories-Bizarre-Brutal\/dp\/1683901045\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mat-Tales-Stories-Bizarre-Brutal\/dp\/1683901045\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-72173 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mat-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mat-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mat-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mat.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/theheartofboxing\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/theheartofboxing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-81040 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Rsr719.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[AdSense-A] By Daniel Sisneros Alex Garcia turned pro on Feb. 6, 1987 with a 1st round knockout of Cliff Melbourne at The Country Club in Reseda, CA. He won his first title with a 12 round unanimous decision over Jerry Jones for both the NABF and WBC Continental Americas Heavyweight Titles in Dec. of 1992. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20403],"class_list":["post-81419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-ringside-report-looks-back-at-alex-garcia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81419"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}