Former two-division world champion “Mikey” Garcia (35-0, 29 KOs) of Oxnard, California will look to add another world title as he returns to the ring against WBC lightweight champion Dejan Zlaticanin (22-0, 15 KOs) of Montenegro. Garcia and Zlaticanin will square off January 28th at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas live on Showtime Championship Boxing. Fightnews.com caught up with “Mikey” as he talked about his upcoming fight.
“I feel great and excited. It’s only the beginning. Hopefully it goes well and I become a three-division champion,” Mikey Garcia told Fightnews.com®. “This is a world title fight and I looking to add another title.”
After a two-year absence from the ring due to contract issues, Garcia returned to the ring this past summer as he scored a knockout over Elio Rojas at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn, New York.
“I was out two-and-a-half years but returned in July and came out with a victory,” Garcia on his last fight. “I think this year 2017 will be real big,” Garcia promised.
Now the former world champion is gearing up for his fight with Zlaticanin as he is training in Moreno Valley, California under the watchful eye of his brother former world champion Robert Garcia and his father Eduardo Garcia, who has been instrumental in developing Robert Garcia, Fernando Vargas, and now his youngest son Mikey into world champions.
“I feel great my brother, father, training camp has gone well,” Garcia said about camp. “We have had a good camp a total of 8 weeks with great sparring camp and atmosphere. I really enjoyed this camp. We started training camp in December and we had more than enough sparring. Robert Garcia told. “We will have a good 8-9 weeks of training camp when we are done.”
