Danny Garcia: record, next fight and profile →
Buddy McGirt has been hired to train former WBO junior welterweight champion Kendall Holt, undefeated junior middleweight prospect Glen Tapia and promising junior welterweight prospect Jose Peralta.
Junior welterweight prospect Danny Garcia will be taking by far the sternest test of his career, when he takes on power-punching Kendall Holt on Oct. 15, as part of the HBO PPV televised undercard to the Bernard Hopkins-Chad Dawson light heavyweight championship fight. And the Philadelphia native expects a great action fight.
Ryan Songalia catches up with former junior welterweight champion Kendall Holt to discuss his upcoming fight with undefeated prospect Danny Garcia.
Ryan Songalia catches up with undefeated welterweight prospect Danny Garcia to discuss his upcoming fight with former champion Kendall Holt.
(From left to right) Undefeated junior welterweight prospect Danny Garcia, WBC and Ring Magazine Light Heavyweight World Champion Bernard Hopkins, former Light Heavyweight World Champion Chad Dawson and former World Champion Kendall Holt pose on August 9, 2011 in New York City at a press conference to officially announce their October 15, 2011 fights in which Hopkins will face Dawson for the WBC and Ring Magazine Light Heavyweight World Title fight and Holt will face Garcia for the vacant NABO junior welterweight title at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles both of which will be produced and distributed live on HBO Pay-Per-View®. Photos by Jeff Fusco/HogansPhotos
Former WBO junior welterweight champion Kendall Holt and top prospect Danny Garcia have both agreed to terms on contracts for an Oct. 15 fight on the Bernard Hopkins-Chad Dawson undercard in Los Angeles.
Promoter Gary Shaw has advised BoxingScene.com that junior welterweight Lucas Matthysse is not going to fight Kendall Holt (27-4, 15KOs) on October 15 at Staples Center in Los Angeles. The show will be headlined by Bernard Hopkins vs. Chad Dawson. Matthysse, for whatever reason, doesn't want to take the fight. Shaw is talking with Golden Boy Promotions about a possible match between Holt and undefeated Danny Garcia (21-0, 14KOs).
They’re still not speaking directly to each other but estranged brothers and first class boxing trainers Robert Garcia and Danny Garcia are both happy about a recent thaw in the family feud which centers around welterweight champion Vicious Victor Ortiz.
MGM Grand, Las Vegas - In a very exciting fight to open up the show, junior middleweight prospect Mikael Zewski (9-0, 5KOs) was taken to his limit by unheralded Clint Coronel (4-2-2, 1KO). Zewski was pushed, rocked in the final round and appeared to be tired at the end, took a six round split decision with very strange scores. The scores were 60-54 for Zewski, 60-54 for Coronal and 59-55 for Zewski.
Less than five minutes of total action between the main event and co-feature - not exactly a time capsule night for Telefutura Solo Boxeo.