Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2018-07-28, great fight between Mikey Garcia and Robert Easter Jr: it gets three stars.Both undefeated, the world champion in four different weight classes Mikey Garcia entered this fight with a perfect boxing record of 38-0-0 (30 KOs=79%) and he is ranked as the No.2 lightweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Vasyl Lomachenko) while his opponent, the Ibf Lw champion Robert Easter Jr, has an official record of 21-0-0 (14 knockouts) and he entered as the No.3 in the same weight class. In their last three fights Garcia has beat Dejan Zlaticanin (Zlaticanin vs Garcia), Adrien Broner (Mikey Garcia vs Adrien Broner) and Sergey Lipinets (Mikey Garcia vs Sergey Lipinets) while Easter has won over Luis Cruz (Easter vs Cruz), Denis Shafikov (Shafikov vs Easter Jr) and Javier Fortuna (Robert Easter Jr vs Javier Fortuna). Garcia vs Easter is valid for the IBF and WBC World lightweight titles. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Date: 2018-07-28
Where: Staples Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
Division: lightweight (135 lbs, 61.2 kg)
Title: IBF and WBC World lightweight titles
Garcia’s next fight: Errol Spence Jr vs Mikey Garcia
Easter’s next fight: Robert Easter Jr vs Rances Barthelemy
Garcia vs Easter full fight video:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYXw-pm8AL8
Official video
Official highlights
Garcia hasn’t put his past three away but I still think he is one of the best in the business. Easter was certainly game but def wasn’t willing to mix it with Mikey much.
Pretty easy work by Mikey. Didn’t expect anything less from him.
I guess we’re one step closer to a super fight with him vs. Lomachenko or Crawford.
Great performance by Garcia, so much precision in his craft. The only detail I would’ve like to see him work a little more is Easter’s body, to cut his legs off. I’d prefer at fight vs Loma, not going +12lbs to face Spence Jr.
Long fight but a very entertaining one between two excellent boxers. Easter has very quick hands, in my opinion is faster than Garcia and his jabbing job is second to none however, he restrained too much for launching his right hand which cost him the possibility to win. Garcia did an excellent job and was able to overcome the abysmal Easter’s reach advantage and connect his punches with precision and at the right time. He controlled the fight from round 3 till the very end. Easter just did well on the first 2 rounds and he may be got one extra round before reaching the middle of the fight. Garcia is really great and a well proved champion.