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Mikey Garcia demolishes Elio Rojas for a TKO victory in return to the ring

Former two-division titleholder Mikey Garcia returned from a two-and-a-half-year layoff looking sharp. Garcia scored four knockdowns en route to a punishing, fifth-round knockout of former featherweight titleholder Elio Rojas, who was coming off a 23-month layoff, in a junior welterweight fight on Saturday at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The fight, which was the co-feature of featherweight titlist Leo Santa Cruz's defense against Carl Frampton, was Garcia's first since he outpointed Juan Carlos Burgos in defense of a junior lightweight world title on Jan. 25, 2014.