alex garcia v mike dixon

[CANNONBALL]

anyone remember this one?

[rekcutnevets]

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.

[Raggamuffin]

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.
Isn't this the fight Garcia got exposed ?

[fists of fury]

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

[unitas]

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.

[TBooze]

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...

[Mendoza]

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

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.

[CANNONBALL]

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 Shit,which Probably Aint Many,garcia Did Return To The Ring A Couple Of Years Ago And Was Flattened By Wallace Mcdaniel.

[rekcutnevets]

It was the rematch Garcia won by decision.

[David B]

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

[apollack]

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

[Thread Stealer]

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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Garcia Turns Down a Heavyweight Offer - Boxing: He won't face Foreman. Arum says fighter claims he isn't ready; Garcia's trainer says $500,000 isn't enough.

By RICH TOSCHES, TIMES STAFF WRITER|June 06, 1991

Heavyweight Alex Garcia of San Fernando, whose purses have averaged about $6,000 a fight in his pro career, has turned down an offer of $500,000 to fight George Foreman, according to promoter Bob Arum and Garcia's trainer.

"Alex told me (last week) he wasn't ready for a guy like George Foreman," Arum said Wednesday. "He said he didn't want to go into a fight that he felt he didn't have a chance to win. Even with that incredible amount of money we offered. To be honest, I've never heard of such a thing."

Garcia could not be reached for comment. His trainer, Hershel Jacobs, said Garcia does not have a telephone in his rented house.

"They offered some money," Jacobs added, "but it wasn't enough. They got up around $500,000. Alex wants a million dollars to do this. Alex would knock George out. No doubt about it. He'd knock George Foreman out in two or three rounds. That's a fact.

"But against George, there is the possibility that Alex could lose. That is a possibility. The odds would be in George's favor. We don't want to put him in there with George Foreman and get Alex hurt or knocked out or beat for nothing."

Garcia, 27, is 20-1, and recorded his 16th knockout on May 23 when he stopped Rocky Sekorski of St. Paul, Minn., in the first round of a scheduled 10-round bout in Las Vegas. Sekorski was knocked out in the fourth round by Foreman two years ago.

Interviewed in the ring after the Sekorski fight, Garcia told ESPN's Al Bernstein: "Right now, I don't know if I want to fight Foreman. If everything's right and the timing is right, then maybe."

Maybe not.

"Alex turned it down on the basis that he wasn't ready to fight George Foreman," Arum said. "Money wasn't an issue, or timing. The fight would have been held in September. He just didn't want George Foreman."

Jacobs said negotiations are continuing.

Arum said the negotiations are over.

"It's dead," Arum said. "If Alex doesn't want to fight the guy, we don't want to present that fight to the public. We won't go back to him now. I just never heard of such a thing."

Foreman, 42, lost a unanimous 12-round decision to heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield

[MRBILL]

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.

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.......

MR.BILL

[patscorpio]

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

[kinski]

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

[Zakman]

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

Yeah, that is also true. Given what happened, it is pretty clear that Garcia should have cashed out against Foreman or Bowe when he had the chance.

I will say this. He was that good a fighter, his record was padded, but he provided some entertaining moments on USA TNF and ESPN's Top Rank Boxing. Particularly on the former, he was a regular in the early 90s.