By Keith Idec

NEW YORK – Adrien Broner was struggling Thursday to identify the best win on Mikey Garcia’s unblemished record.

A reporter suggested Orlando Salido.

“When he quit,” Broner said before their final press conference in Manhattan for their 12-round, 140-pound fight Saturday night at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. “Oh, that’s when he quit, and still won. I didn’t know you can do that. He quit.”

Garcia defeated Salido by technical decision when they fought for Salido’s WBO featherweight title in January 2013.

Garcia dropped Mexico’s Salido four times – twice in the first round and once apiece in the third and fourth rounds – before an accidental clash of heads in the eighth round left Garcia with a broken nose that prevented a ringside physician from allowing him to continue. Their scheduled 12-round fight went to the scorecards and Garcia’s huge lead enabled him to win by unanimous decision after eight rounds (79-69, 79-69, 79-70) in The Theater at Madison Square Garden.

His success in their fight aside, skeptics questioned Garcia’s desire to continue because Salido started to come on in the later rounds.

When asked to give his assessment of Garcia-Salido, Broner replied, “I tried to watch a couple rounds of it, but I couldn’t get into it. But I know he quit. Salido should’ve won that fight.”

Even though he is sure Garcia wanted out of that fight, it hasn’t altered Broner’s perspective on Garcia overall.

“That don’t change nothing,” Broner said. “At the end of the day, he’s still a good fighter, a technical fighter and all that. But he won’t beat me Saturday night.”

Does that mean Broner believes he can make Garcia quit?

“Yeah,” Broner said. “I can make anybody quit when I’m 110 percent.”

The 29-year-old Garcia (36-0, 30 KOs), of Oxnard, California, is about an approximate 3-1 favorite over Cincinnati’s Broner (33-2, 24 KOs, 1 NC) in a fight Showtime will televise Saturday night.

“I’m just laughing, man,” Broner said.” Y’all some damn fools for giving McGregor a chance to beat Floyd, but I ain’t got a chance to beat Mikey Garcia?”

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.