Trained former two-time world champion boxer Fernando Vargas, as well as Miguel Angel Garcia, Robert Garcia, and Victor Ortiz.
He compiled a 48-2 amateur boxing record.
He was a trainer at La Colonia Youth Boxing Club in Southern California.
His sons are IBF super featherweight champion Robert Garcia and WBO and Ring Magazine featherweight champion Miguel Angel Garcia.
Under Garcia's tutelage, Fernando Vargas became the youngest light middleweight champion the sport had ever seen.
