Danny Garcia: record, next fight and profile →
Danny Garcia will be climbing up the weight ladder when he makes his super welterweight debut July 30 against Jose Benavidez Jr. at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Danny Garcia foresees an attractive and all-too-makeable fight waiting for him in the near future. The two-division titlist from Philadelphia suggested in a recent interview that he would welcome a bout with longtime Cuban middleweight contender Erislandy Lara. Garcia said that Lara, who holds a WBC middleweight belt, was the first to float the idea of fighting one another. According to Garcia, Lara is amenable to fighting at a catchweight.
Junior middleweight contender Jose Benavidez is predicting a shock win over his upcoming opponent, former two division world champion Danny “Swift” Garcia.
Two-division world champion and Brooklyn fan-favorite Danny “Swift” Garcia will make his super welterweight debut against exciting contender Jose Benavidez Jr. in a 12-round showdown that headlines a stacked tripleheader Saturday, July 30 live on SHOWTIME from Barclays Center in Brooklyn in an event presented by Premier Boxing Champions.
Danny Garcia will end a year-plus long ring absence with a fight at a new weight. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that a July 30 date is penciled in for Philadelphia’s Garcia to make his junior middleweight debut, which will come versus former title challenger Jose Benavidez Jr. The fight will headline a Showtime card from Barclays Center in Brooklyn, where Garcia has fought on eight previous occasions including the building’s first ever boxing event in October 2012.
Danny Garcia believes that fellow Philadelphian welterweight Jaron Ennis will reach the top of the division sooner or later – just don’t necessarily expect it to happen at Garcia’s expense.
Brook had good reason to sound confident. Their 12-round welterweight bout (contracted at 149 pounds) in February, billed as a coin-flip affair between two of the bigger names in recent British boxing memory, was lopsided in favor of Brook (40-3, 28 KOs), who stopped Khan (34-6, 21 KOs) in the sixth round.
Kell Brook will have to hold off from making any concrete fight plans, at least until Amir Khan gives him the green light. Ben Shalom, the head of the British promotional outfit Boxxer, which promoted the Amir Khan-Kell Brook welterweight grudge match on Feb. 19 at Manchester Arena in Manchester, England
Conor Benn remains hopeful that Eddie Hearn will be able to offer Adrien Broner enough money to entice the former champion to box Benn early in 2022.
Former welterweight champion Amir Khan does not view his upcoming fight as a "cash out" assignment. On Monday it was officially announced that Khan and longtime rival Kell Brook would collide in the ring. Their clash takes place on February 19 at the Manchester Arena in Manchester.