NEW YORK (AP) – A combined record of 60-0, with 41 knockouts. A likely full Barclays Center. Network television.
Boxing can always use an event that makes folks take notice. And this welterweight unification bout figures to be quite a show Saturday night when WBA champion Keith Thurman fights WBC titleholder Danny Garcia.
Both can punch. Both can box. Neither backs up.
Thurman is 27-0 with 22 KOs. Garcia is 33-0 with 19 knockouts.
“This fight has been brewing and that’s the reason why this is happening,” said Thurman, who then proved he knows the ways of the ring by referring to himself in the third person. “I’m really happy to be in this moment. Keith Thurman’s had a dream since he was a little boy, to be not just your average champion, but a great champion.”