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Starting his career in January 2001 at the age of 20, orthodox boxer Roberto Garcia has now been pro for 17 years and has built up a career of 41-4-0. Garcia now moves into the final stages of his career. Garcia's longest win streak is 13 fights between January 2001 and January 2003. His longest KO streak in his 46 fights is 5 fights long.
Getting rid of his debut fight nerves early, Garcia took on Norberto Flores in January 2001 and claimed a stoppage victory (round 1, KO). Garcia was the first person to have ever stopped Flores. Garcia continued his mostly successful career with numerous fights following his debut against boxers including Juan carlos Rubio, Enrico Lane and Homer Gibbins. Fights included fighting 8 times in 2001, 4 times in 2002 and 11 times between 2003 and 2006.
Taking the first knock of his career, Garcia fought Calvin Odom on April 29th, 2003 and was defeated by Odom. Garcia's technical boxing ability was put to the test as he got outpointed in the 8 round fight against the better man. Odom gave Garcia his first professional loss of his 14 fight career to date. Garcia's win streak of 13 rose to 16 following 3 wins against boxers such as Chance Leggett, Darien Ford and Walter Herrera.
Furthering his career, Garcia fought Ramon Gomez on February 26th, 2005 and continued his career to a record of 17-2-0. The win came via KO. Gomez was stopped in the 1st round via KO meaning Garcia was the first person to stop this opponent. Another win followed for Garcia taking his win tally to 18 wins.
Garcia went into his next career fight with a record of 18-2-0 and took this to 19 wins with a win against Enrico Lane on November 18th, 2005. The win against Lane came in the 6th round of a 10 round fight via TKO. Garcia was the 2nd person to stop Lane. Garcia continued his success in the next 8 fights taking his record to 26 wins, 2 losses and 0 draws.
Keeping his losses at 2, Garcia fought on September 19th, 2009 beating Santiago Icabalceta via TKO. This took his record to 27-2-0 showing quite the successful career to date. Garcia was the first person to stop Santiago Icabalceta and he did it in the 2nd round via TKO. Garcia then went on to win a further 14 fights taking his record to 40 wins, 3 losses and 0 draw.
Pushing his career further, Garcia fought Omar Chavez on August 12th, 2017 adding to his winning record. In 2017 Garcia fought his next opponent in Omar Chavez. A challenging 10 round fight that ended in Garcia's favour as the judges awarded Garcia the UD victory. Garcia was the 4th person to defeat Chavez.
The next defeat of Garcia's career came against Martin Murray on June 23rd, 2018. This took his career record to 41-4-0. This latest challenge for Garcia proved to be too much for him, taking a UD loss to the better technical fighter over the 12 rounds and leaving Garcia wondering which direction his career will head next.