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Miguel Angel Garcia Cortez (born December 15, 1987), best known as Mikey Garcia, is an American professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in four weight classes, including the lineal junior welterweight title from 2018 to 2020; previously he held the WBO and Ring magazine featherweight titles in 2013, the WBO junior lightweight title from 2013 to 2014, the WBC and IBF lightweight titles between 2017 and 2019, and the IBF junior welterweight title in 2018. He has also challenged once for the IBF welterweight title in 2019.
As of October 2019, Garcia is ranked as the world’s tenth best active boxer, pound for pound, by ESPN. He is also ranked as the world’s best active light-welterweight by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board (TBRB), the world’s second best active lightweight by the TBRB, and ESPN, and the worlds eighth best active welterweight by BoxRec.