By Dan Ambrose: WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (30-0, 17 KOs) stays unbeaten tonight in defeating IBF 140 pound champion Lamont Peterson (33-3-1, 17 KOs) by an unimpressive 12 round majority decision in their catch-weight fight at 143 pounds on the Premier Boxing Champions on NBC at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn, New York. The final judges’ scores were 114-114, 115-113, and 115-113.
Peterson really whipped Garcia in the last half of the fight, and he had Garcia backing up and looking beaten black and blue around the face. Garcia likely would have been knocked out if Peterson pressured him from the beginning of the fight instead of waiting so long before he started coming on in the second half.
By Dan Ambrose: WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (29-0, 17 KOs) will be the highest paid fighter in tonight’s card at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The 27-year-old Garcia will be getting $1.5 million for his 143 pound catch-weight fight against IBF light welterweight champion Lamont Peterson (33-2-1, 17 KOs).
That’s not bad money for a fight that has failed to catch the public’s imagination. Peterson will be getting $1.2 million. This may be as good as it gets for Peterson unless he can win, and keep moving his fight forward.
By Scott Gilfoid: WBO middleweight champion Andy Lee (34-2, 24 KOs) will be fighting Peter Quillin (31-0, 22 KOs) tonight in what was supposed to be Lee’s first defense of his World Boxing Organization world title at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Quillin failed to make weight at the weigh-in last Friday, meaning that the Lee-Quillin fight won’t have a title on the line tonight. Quillin has been out of the ring for an entire year, so you can’t blame him for coming in at 161.9 pounds at the weigh-in.
LONDON (10 April) – Irish ace Andy Lee says the ‘monkey is off his back’ now he is world champion, claiming his opponent Peter Quillin will be the one under the cosh this Saturday night.
The middleweight star, who won the WBO crown last December with a sensational sixth round stoppage of formidable Russian Matt Korobov, makes the first defence of his world title at the Barclays Center in New York, live and exclusive on BoxNation.
By Scott Gilfoid: Former WBO middleweight champion Peter Quillin (31-0, 22 KOs) came in over the weight limit on Friday in his weigh-in for his title shot against WBO middleweight champion Andy Lee (34-2, 24 KOs) for their fight at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
By Scott Gilfoid: WBO middleweight champion Andy Lee (34-2, 24 KOs) expects to see fireworks on Saturday when he and former WBO 160 pound champion Peter Quillin (31-0, 22 KOs) let their hands go in their fight on NBC on Premier Boxing Champions at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Lee, 30, feels that he’s made a lot of progress with his career in the past year in terms of the technical changes he’s made after working hard in training camps. Lee has bailed himself out of tough situations in fights against John Jackson and Matt Korobov by landing huge right hooks to capture the wins.