Danny Garcia: I don’t lose!

garcia67By Dan Ambrose: WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (29-0, 17 KOs) doesn’t think too highly of his next opponent IBF 140lb champion Lamont Peterson (33-2-1, 17 KOs), who he’ll be facing on April 11th in the United States at a still yet to be determined venue.

There’s been talk of the Garcia-Peterson fight taking place at a catch-weight of 143 pounds, but Garcia is now saying that the fight could be at 140 in order to make it a unification match.

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Andy Lee vs. Peter Quillin possible for April 11th on Garcia-Peterson card

lee2By Scott Gilfoid: WBO middleweight champion Andy Lee (34-2, 24 KOs) could be making his first defense against a very tough customer in Peter “Kid Chocolate” Quillin (31-0, 22 KOs) on April 11th on the undercard of the Danny Garcia – Lamont Peterson catch-weight fight in New York, according to Dan Rafael.

Lee, 30, will need to get an exception by the World Boxing Organization to bypass his #1 WBO mandatory challenger Billy Joe Saunders, who Lee was supposed to be fighting in his first title defense. However, the green stuff is supposed to be better for the Quillin fight than the Saunders fight, so it’s possible we could be seeing that bout take place first.

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Danny Garcia vs. Lamont Peterson at 143lb catch-weight, no titles on line

garcia67By Dan Ambrose: The April 11th NBC fight between WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (29-0, 17 KOs) and IBF 140lb champion Lamont Peterson (33-2-1, 17 KOs) just lost what little meaning the fight ever had with the news today that their fight will be at a catch-weight of 143 pounds instead of at the normal 140lb weight for the light welterweight division.

This means that the fight will be a non-title bout with neither guy putting of their straps for the fight. The loser of the fight will get to keep their titles and continue defending them.

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Danny Garcia: The fans want to see me fight Lamont Peterson

garcia899By 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.

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Khan has unfinished business with Lamont Peterson and Danny Garcia

khan88By 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.

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Danny Garcia vs. Lamont Peterson on April 11th on NBC

garcia4By 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.

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De La Hoya to make Danny Garcia vs. Lamont Peterson in early 2015

garcia67By 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.

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Adrien Broner vs. Lamont Peterson not happening, says Golden Boy

broner67By Dan Ambrose: Former three division world champion Adrien Broner (28-1, 22 KOs) reportedly posted an instagram message today saying that he’ll be facing IBF light welterweight champion Lamont Peterson on October 18th.

A lot of boxing fans took Broner to be serious about the post, and they got excited about the fight. But as it turns out, Broner was playing an April fools type joke on August 25th. Dan Rafael of ESPN said that Golden Boy Promotions says that Broner won’t be fighting Peterson on October 18th.

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De La Hoya says he’ll work on Danny Garcia vs. Lamont Peterson fight

By Dan Ambrose: Responding to small pockets of interest from boxing fans in a potential unification fight between IBF light welterweight champion Lamont Peterson and WBA/WBC 140 pound champion Danny Garcia, Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya says he’s going to start working on putting together the fight. He wants to make the fight for the fans, who really aren’t beating down Golden Boy’s door to see the fight. To honest, Peterson still hasn’t been looked at the same way by fans ever since he was obliterated by Lucas Matthysse. Fans would probably prefer to see a Garcia vs. Matthysse rematch or Garcia vs. Mauricio Herrera rather than seeing Garcia matched up against a guy that Matthysse easily beat in Peterson.

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De La Hoya congratulates Garcia, Peterson and other Golden Boy fighters for last night’s show

By Allan Fox: Oscar De La Hoya reportedly was unable to attend last night’s fights at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York because of a family emergency being ill, according to Dan Rafael of ESPN. But De La Hoya sent a message of congratulations to fighters anyway with the above tweet.

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