Danny Garcia boxing news
By Dan Ambrose: WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (29-0, 17 KOs) says he’s ready to give fans the fight they want to see in him facing IBF light welterweight champion Lamont Peterson (33-2-1, 17 KOs) on April 11th at a still to be determined venue in the United States.
This is a fight that will be televised on NBC and it’ll be the second fight card on the series by Garcia’s manager Al Haymon.
By Scott Bells: So Amir Khan thinks he deserves a shot with Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao? Looking at his clear boxing skills and excellent speed, I actually think he could give both a competitive fight, however just because you could be competitive doesn’t mean you deserve it.
As an Englishmen, I would love to see the fight, but if I were Amir Khan, I would be pushing and pushing my promoter to get me back into the ring with either Lamont Peterson or Danny Garcia.
By Dan Ambrose: WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (29-0, 17 KOs) will be facing IBF World super light welterweight champion Lamont Peterson (33-2-1, 17 KOs) in a unification match on April 11th on NBC as part of his manager Al Haymon’s “Premier Boxing Champions” series. Haymon is all of a sudden putting together some good fights, as a month earlier on March 7th he has two excellent fights between Robert Guerrero and Keith Thurman as well as Adrien Broner going up against John Molina.
By Dan Ambrose: Oscar De La Hoya of Golden Boy Promotions says he’s going to try and put together a unification fight between WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (29-0, 17 KOs) and IBF 147lb title holder Lamont Peterson (33-2-1, 17 KOs) for early 2015.
This is a fight that should have been made in 2014, but instead Garcia’s adviser Al Haymon matched him against the much smaller lightweight Rod Salka in a fight that turned out to be a dreadful mismatch last August.
By James Sexton: It was a long time ago that the ‘pound for pound’ rankings were created to put Ray Robinson’s performances and achievements into perspective. Today, Ring magazine, (owned by Golden Boy Promotions) and many other sporting writers and websites use the formula to keep track of the most decorated athletes in the sport.
After the success of boxing in 2013, 2014 has seemed like a lackluster year and many find their lists are starting to take a different shape for the first time in a while.
By Dan Ambrose: #2 WBO light welterweight contender Ruslan Provodnikov (24-3, 17 KOs) will be back in the ring in the next three months on March 28th in a fight that will take place at a still to be determined venue in the United States.
Provodnikov, 30, is hoping that he can get one of the following fighters to agree to face him: Marcos Maidana, Danny Garcia or Lucas Matthysse. The problem is that those fighters are managed by Al Haymon, and it’s highly doubtful that Haymon will bother setting them up for a dangerous fight against a slugger like Provodnikov when there’s not much of any upside.
By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao (56-5-2, 38 KOs) and his trainer Freddie Roach both are very interested in a future bout against WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (29-0, 17 KOs). Roach sees Garcia as the perfect opponent for Pacquiao due to the way Garcia loads up with his left hooks, and swings for the fences each time he throws a punch.
Roach thinks Pacquiao would do well against a fighter like Garcia. Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum, however, doesn’t think Garcia could even beat Chris Algieri (20-0, 8 KOs), who will be facing Pacquiao next on November 22nd in Macau, China. Arum thinks Garcia would be out of his element in a fight against the 5’10” Algieri.
By Dan Ambrose: #1 WBC Viktor Postol (26-0, 11 KOs) has reportedly received a bonus to step aside so that WBC/WBA light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (29-0, 17 KOs) can fight another opponent within the next 4 months. Postol can fight whoever he wishes during that time, but after that Garcia has within 90 days to fight Postol, according to Dan Rafael of ESPN.
If Garcia doesn’t face Postol within that 90 days then presumably he’ll be stripped by the World Boxing Council if Garcia doesn’t vacate his WBC title first, which is highly likely. It’s unknown how much money Postol received in order to step aside but it’s likely a significant amount of money.
By Dan Ambrose: The World Boxing Council reported earlier today that WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (29-0, 17 KOs) and unbeaten #1 WBC Viktor Postol (26-0, 11 KOs) have agreed to a fight.
The purse bid which had been scheduled for October 20th has now been cancelled. The fight date and the venue for the Garcia-Postol fight still have yet to be determined at this time.
By Dan Ambrose: The purse bid for the Viktor Postol (26-0, 11 KOs) and WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (29-0, 17 KOs) has been moved again by the World Boxing Council (WBC), according to Dan Rafael of ESPN.
The date was supposed to have been on October 6th, but it’s now been moved to October 20th. This is the 4th time the purse bid has been moved. It was originally supposed to take place on September 12th. It was then moved to October 1st, and then October 6th. It’s now scheduled for October 20th.