Adrien Broner and Mikey Garcia are ready to kick off four weeks of big fights featuring some of the biggest names in boxing.
Broner (33-2, 24 KOs) faces Garcia (36-0, 30 KOs) on July 29, followed by the two best pound-for-pound fighters in the world, Vasyl Lomachenko and Terence Crawford, who face off on August 5 and August 19, respectively. Boxing’s big month culminates with the Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor spectacle on August 26.
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The journey begins Saturday night at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center with a super lightweight bout between one of boxing’s stars and a rising star: former four-weight world champion Broner takes on WBC lightweight champion Garcia. Here’s everything you need to know about the fight.
All times are Eastern Time.
Adrien Broner vs. Mikey Garcia: Date, Fight Time
Broner vs. Garcia is scheduled for Saturday, July 29th and broadcast begins at 9 p.m. Broner and Garcia are expected to enter the ring around 10:30 p.m.
Broner vs Garcia TV, live streaming
Broner vs. Garcia airs on Showtime starting at 9 p.m. You can also stream Broner vs. Garcia live on Sho.com (subscription required).
Fight card Broner vs. Garcia
— Adrien Broner vs. Mikey Garcia; Super lightweight without tiles
— Jermall Charlo vs. Jorge Sebastian Heiland; Middleweight
— Jarrell Miller vs. Gerald Washington; Heavyweights
— Katie Taylor vs. Jasmine Clarkson; Women’s Lightweight
Preview: Broner vs. Garcia
Broner (33-2, 24 KOs) is one of the sport’s biggest stars. He is one of 16 boxers to win four division titles, but his last two fights have been one-fights. “The Problem” struggled on the scales, missing weight to Ashley Theophane and being stripped of his WBA super lightweight title, although he ultimately won by ninth-round TKO.
His next fight against Adrian Granados was at a weight cut from 142 pounds to 147 pounds. He won by a controversial split decision, but many boxing experts felt that Granados lost out.
Garcia (36-0, 30 KOs) is a rising star in the sport, but like his opponent, he has taken an unusual path to get to this point. After defeating Juan Carlos Burgos in January 2014, Garcia sat out two and a half years in a lengthy legal battle with his former promoter Top Rank.
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With a new promoter and a new purpose in life, Garcia has won both of his fights, including in January when he captured the WBC lightweight title by knocking out Dejan Zlatičanin.
It is one of the biggest fights of 2017. One fighter will rise while the other will fail.
Here’s what you need to know about Broner vs. Garcia.
Editor’s Note: In the portion of the article introducing the fight, we stated that Garcia spent over a million dollars in legal fees to obtain his freedom from Top Rank. Garcia’s legal counsel in the fight against Top Rank, Bryan Freedman of Los Angeles-based Freedman & Taitelman, LLP, emailed Sporting News that this was not the case and our research was incorrect.
“Mikey (Garcia) did not pay a dollar to Top Rank to settle the case and gain his freedom,” Freedman said in the email. “They released him from the contract because court rulings would have been unfavorable and potentially impacted all Top Rank fighters. While the litigation did cost Mikey some money, it was nowhere near a million dollars, and in the opinion of Mikey and his lead trial attorney, it was well worth it to prove to all fighters that there is a way around what they believe are illegal and unenforceable contracts with abusive promoters.”
Steven Muehlhausen is an MMA and boxing writer and contributor to Sporting News. You can listen to his podcast, The Fight Junkies, here. You can email him at [email protected] and find him on Twitter. @SMuehlhausenMMA.
