alex garcia v mike dixon

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  1. CANNONBALL

    CANNONBALL Well-Known Member Full Member

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    anyone remember this one?
     
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  2. rekcutnevets

    rekcutnevets Black Sash Full Member

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    I think I remember seeing it on Tuesday Night Fights, on USA. That is about it. I think Garcia won, but don't remember how.
     
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  3. Raggamuffin

    Raggamuffin You dipstick Full Member

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    Isn't this the fight Garcia got exposed ?
     
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  4. fists of fury

    fists of fury Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Garcia - he was the one with "SANFER" tattooed on his stomach wasn't he? Don't remember the fight though...
     
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  5. unitas

    unitas Boxing Addict Full Member

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    garcia got knocked out by a left hook to the temple from dixon.

    but i liked the way garing lane ko´ed that fraud even better. punched garcias mug right through the canvas.
     
    unitas, Jul 5, 2007
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  6. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I felt sorry for Garcia. He turned down a huge pay day (Dokes took it) against Bowe, because he felt (quite rightly) he was not ready...
     
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  7. Mendoza

    Mendoza Hrgovic = Next Heavyweight champion of the world. banned Full Member

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    The fight was hilarious. To be politically un-correct, Alex Garcia was the unofficial Latino heavyweight hope of the 1990’s. One alphabet organization sunk to new lows and gave Garcia their #5 rank. The people who saw Garcia simply chuckled, but the press ate it up.


    The boxing promoters loved the idea of putting a ranked Latino heavyweight on under cards of the lower weight fights. It seemed that every boxing story on Garcia centered on his ethnicity and gang actives, not his ability in the ring. Garcia was a fraud waiting to be exposed. Dixon was brought in as his opponent as a “ Tuesday Night “ special. It was a title fight, well sort of. Garcia and Dixon were scheduled to go 12 rounds for the WBA Latin Heavyweight Title. Dixon hit Garcia with a punch that would not have toppled a china doll, and Garica went down and could not recover. It was perhaps the weakest knock out blow I’ve ever seen at heavyweight. During the interview Dixon was asked did you land a hard shot. He just smiled and said no.
     
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  8. CANNONBALL

    CANNONBALL Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Yes Folks, You Are Right,this Was The Fight Garcia Got Exposed. His Career Also Fell Apart Dramatically After This. Dixon Was Never Anything More Than A Shock Absorber For Up And Comers. I Think Garcia Also Turned Down A Fight With Foreman Too. His Collapse Against Garing Lane Was Also A Shocker,garcia Just Never Got Over The Dixon Loss,although He Did Win A Decision In A Return. Ok,garcia Perhaps Did Not Deserve His High Ranking But He Did Put A Good Run Together,maybe Not Against The Best Opposition But Certainly No Worse Than The Patsies Fought By Briggs Etc On Their Way To A Title Shot. For Anyone Who Gives A ****,which Probably Aint Many,garcia Did Return To The Ring A Couple Of Years Ago And Was Flattened By Wallace Mcdaniel.
     
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  9. rekcutnevets

    rekcutnevets Black Sash Full Member

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    It was the rematch Garcia won by decision.
     
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  10. David B

    David B Nazi Russia lies. This is the only truth. Full Member

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    He turned down a 1 million dollar offer by the Bowe camp.
    One of the worst business decisions ever....
     
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  11. apollack

    apollack Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I heard that it was George Foreman who offered Garcia a fight and he turned it down. I might be wrong.
     
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  12. Thread Stealer

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    http://articles.latimes.com/1991-06-06/sports/sp-116_1_george-foreman

     
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  13. MRBILL

    MRBILL Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Naw.... Dixon iced "Minoso" Torres a.k.a Alex Garcia in around 3 rds on ESPN in 1993 if memory serves me right...... I'm not sure if ESPN did the rematch... I recall Garcia got revenge the second time around.... Still, Garcia soon fell from grace and was washed-up by 1995 or so.....

    Garcia was in "Diggstown" back in 1992 and was being hyped as a serious badass mo-fo..... I knew it was hype.......

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  14. patscorpio

    patscorpio Active Member Full Member

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    yeah but garcia had one of the most brutal ko's id ever seen against bernard benton..he nearly killed him
     
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  15. kinski

    kinski Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Mike Dixon was totally dominated by Corrie the "sniper" Sanders. Dropped once then totally outboxed.
     
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