Danny Óscar García is an American professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the unified WBA, WBC, Ring magazine and lineal light welterweight titles. He also held the WBC Welterweight title from 2016 to 2017. As of August 2020, he is ranked as the world’s sixth best active welterweights by The Ring.
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Danny Óscar García is an American professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the unified WBA, WBC, Ring magazine and lineal light welterweight titles between 2012 and 2015. He also held the WBC Welterweight title from 2016 to 2017. García was born in North Philadelphia to a mother from Bayamón, Puerto Rico; and his father Ángel García, originally from Naguabo, Puerto Rican, who was also a boxer. As of August 2020, he is ranked as the world’s sixth best active welterweights by The Ring, seventh by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, and eighth by BoxRec. His father introduced him to boxing, taking him to Philadelphia’s Harrowgate Boxing Club when he was ten years old, which was the minimum age allowed by local law for a minor to train. He finished his amateur career with 107 wins 13 losses. He was born with a sixth toe on his right foot which he was embarrassed of as a child, but jokingly says that it gives him a competitive advantage to stay on balance during fights. In January 2012, García announced that he would fight Mexican legend and Ring 10 light lightweight legend Érik Morales for his first world title. The fight was originally scheduled to take place on January 28, 2012, but was postponed because Morales had emergency gallbladder surgery. It was the first chapter of the infamous ‘Puerto Rico vs Mexico’ boxing rivalry.
The only title at stake at the time was García’s WBC super lightweight title, which he won in March 2012 at Reliant Arena in Houston, Texas. In April 2011, he defeated former lightweight titlist Nate Campbell. On August 15, 2011, Garcia won the vacant NABO welter weight belt in Los Angeles fighting on the HBO PPV undercard of Hopkins vs Dawson II over former champion Kendall Dawson II. He then went on to win the WBA welter lightweight title in February 2012. In March 2013, he beat former lightweight title holder Nate Campbell by unanimous decision at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. His next fight took place on May 3, 2008, at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California against Julio Gamboa. He defeated Jesús Villareal by second-round technical knockout. In his fifth professional fight, he fought Guadalupe Díaz, on April 19, 2008,. He hurt Díz early in the fight with a barrage of punches. He knocked out faded contender Mike Arnaoutis in four rounds later in the year. He survived a tough fight with Ashley Theophane in February 2010, coming away with a split-decision victory. In February 2012, he lost to former lightweight champion Nate Campbell in a split decision. In July 2013, García won the WABO light lightweight title over former lightweight Titlist Kendall Dawson Jr. at the T-Mobile Arena in San Francisco.
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