The famous coach Robert Garcia is confident in his boxer and brother Mikey Garcia, and claims that he could even knock Miguel Cotto in the light middleweights if Miguel chose him as his rival for the farewell fight this December.
On February 10 in San Antonio, Texas, Mikey Garcia will try to get the title in his fourth weight category in a meeting with IBF super lightweight champion Sergei Lipinets. Garcia also continues to hold the WBC lightweight belt.
"If everything goes well [with Lipinets, Mikey fighting] at 135 or 140 I have no problem. Anything higher than that, I would be a little more concerned and a little more nervous," Robert Garcia told BoxingScene.com.
"When Mikey called out Cotto, I was like 'are you crazy Mikey? What's your problem?' But then when I was thinking about it and seeing that Mikey was so serious about it, I supported him. And I think if he would have fought him, I think Mikey would have stopped Cotto. I really think so. Mikey would have done that, come back down and that's something that very few fighters have accomplished.
"But he didn't do it, so we're looking at the fight with Lipinets. It's a big challenge for a fourth world title in a fourth division."
