FOX Sports and Premier Boxing Champions today announced eight televised world title fights in the first three months of the new deal, featuring eight world champions and more than two dozen of the world’s best boxers going toe-to-toe.
When Mikey Garcia first called for a fight with the much bigge Errol Spence most fans laughed or sneered, insisting this fight, one that would see Garcia bite off way more than he could chew, would not happen.
![Vasyl Lomachenko: I Think It Will Be [Mikey] Garcia In 2019](https://www.boxing247.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/lomachenko0-RS588069_20180512__D8O1040.jpg "Photo: Vasyl Lomachenko: I Think It Will Be [Mikey] Garcia In 2019")
When you are as good, as great as Vasyl Lomachenko, you can afford to look past an upcoming fight and eye up an even bigger prize.
Though unbeaten four-weight champion and current pound-for-pound star Mikey Garcia continues to call for a massive, and massively risky, welterweight fight with Errol Spence – a fight that, should he win, would see Mikey make history – there are plenty of people who feel the WBC/IBF lightweight ruler should instead take a fight closer to home.
On Saturday night, in a battle of undefeated lightweight title holders, IBF lightweight champion Mikey Garcia squared off against WBC lightweight champion Robert Easter Jr.
Mikey Garcia did the business last night in soundly defeating a dangerous foe in Robert Easter Junior to become only the tenth unified lightweight champion in boxing history.
Mikey Garcia became the 10th lightweight champion to unify the division with a unanimous decision against Robert Easter Jr. Saturday on SHOWTIME, and immediately afterward set his sights on boxing’s best, namely Errol Spence Jr.
WBC 135 pound champion Mikey Garcia (39-0, 30 KOs) was forced to go the distance in defeating International Boxing Federation lightweight champion Robert Easter Jr.
This Saturday night Mikey Garcia and Robert Easter Jr. put there perfect records on the line in a lightweight unification bout live on Showtime from the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
WBC & IBF LIGHTWEIGHT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP UNIFICATION – 12 Rounds
Mikey Garcia – 135 lbs
Robert Easter Jr – 134 ½ lbs.