If Mikey Garcia’s father, Eduardo Garcia, will have his way, he prefers Filipino legend Manny Pacquiao as his son’s next rival when he graduates two divisions up from lightweight to welterweight.

The patriarch of the famous Garcia boxing clan told Lance Pugmire of the Los Angeles Times he approves of his son’s moving up as a 135-pound to 147-pound campaigner even as he offered an alternative to fighting welterweight titlist Errol Spence Jr. in so doing.

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