{"id":86254,"date":"2020-02-28T16:11:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T22:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=86254"},"modified":"2020-06-01T17:47:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T22:47:55","slug":"a-closer-look-at-mikey-garcia-vs-jessie-vargas-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=86254","title":{"rendered":"A Closer Look at Mikey Garcia Vs Jessie Vargas \u2013 Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=86254\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=86254\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-86255 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/EBA8CBA0-5FCF-40CD-B29A-2E5802630703-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/EBA8CBA0-5FCF-40CD-B29A-2E5802630703-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/EBA8CBA0-5FCF-40CD-B29A-2E5802630703-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/EBA8CBA0-5FCF-40CD-B29A-2E5802630703-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/EBA8CBA0-5FCF-40CD-B29A-2E5802630703.jpeg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By \u201cBad\u201d Brad Berkwitt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow night in The Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas Former WBC &amp; IBF Lightweight Champion Mikey Garcia, 39-1, 30 KO\u2019s steps back in the ring after his only loss last year against Errol Spence, JR. where he dropped a decision to the bigger man for his welterweight title. Garcia\u2019s opponent is the former WBO Welterweight champion Jessie Vargas, 29-2-2, 11 KO\u2019s in a welterweight matchup.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Jessie Vargas is just 2-1-2 in his last five fights and past his prime, is now on the wrong side of 30. While Mikey Garcia is even older (32), he&#8217;s also a more accomplished and better tactical boxer. As mentioned, Garcia&#8217;s only career loss came to Errol Spence, JR., a consensus top-five pound-for-pound fighter, in his first fight at welterweight. The current odds, which have Vargas as a massive +400 underdog, are not giving the bigger man the respect he deserves says Paruk from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbettingdime.com\/\">SportsBettingDime.com<\/a>, the smaller, faster Garcia should be able to outpoint Vargas in a 12-round decision.<\/p>\n<p>On paper, this is a decent fight, but boxing fans also feel that Garcia will come out on top.<\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;2&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By \u201cBad\u201d Brad Berkwitt Tomorrow night in The Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas Former WBC &amp; IBF Lightweight Champion Mikey Garcia, 39-1, 30 KO\u2019s steps back in the ring after his only loss last year against Errol Spence, JR. where he dropped a decision to the bigger man for his welterweight title. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[21628],"class_list":["post-86254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-a-closer-look-at-mikey-garcia-vs-jessie-vargas-boxing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86254","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=86254"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}