In the main event on the Canelo Alvarez vs Edgar Berlanga card, former two-division world champion Danny Garcia will challenge reigning WBA world middleweight champion Erislandy Lara (30-3-3, 18 KOs) on September 14 at the T-Mobile. Arena in Las Vegas, live on Amazon Prime Video PPV/DAZN PPV.
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This championship fight will be a battle between two boxers who are skilled and highly skilled. Garcia will be looking to win a world title after coming off a 2-year layoff, while Lara will be looking to successfully defend his world title for a third time.
Danny Garcia, a product of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, became a world champion when he defeated Erik Morales by unanimous decision in March 2012. Four months after winning the WBC title, Garcia became a unified champion when he stopped Amir Khan in the 4th round and won. the WBA band.
After moving up to welterweight, Garcia beat Robert Guerrero to win the vacant WBC welterweight title. A year later, back in March 2017, Garcia lost his title to Keith “One Time” Thurman.
Garcia was involved in another welterweight world title match in 2020, but unfortunately he lost by way of unanimous decision against Errol Spence Jr. lose. Now 36-year-old Danny Garcia is preparing for a clash in which he sees it as a legacy. fight.
Garcia’s opponent, defending WBA world middleweight champion Erislandy Lara, is a fighter who has all the tools. Lara is a two-division world champion, but he is best known for his previous showdown against a fighter who has always been included on boxing’s pound-for-pound list.
In July 2014, Erislandy Lara stepped into the ring to face Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. Lara was very successful throughout the fight as he used feints, the southpaw jab, masterful footwork and sharp counter punches.
At the end of the 12-round bout, Canelo Alvarez was awarded the victory by split decision. Many fighters and boxing experts labeled the fight a robbery, believing that Lara did enough to win the match.
Cuban boxer Erislandy Lara would go on to become a two-weight world champion. Currently, the 41-year-old Lara is about to make his third middleweight title defense against a man fighting to improve his legacy.
Danny “Swift” Garcia (37-3, 21 KOs) will step inside the squared circle on Saturday night with the goal of becoming a three-division world champion. During an interview with Boxing Social, Garcia was asked what defeating Erislandy Lara would mean to him, and he responded by saying:
“It would mean the world to me. You know this is my dream here. Not everyone achieves their dreams. You know I’ve done it twice in two weight classes, and the third one, the third time’s the charm.”
On the night of September 14, under the bright lights, Danny Garcia’s goal is to defeat Lara and become a three-division world champion. Garcia wants to win, and he wants to do it in a way that has never been done before.
“I would love to be the first person to stop Lara,” Garcia said. “I was the first person to stop a lot of fighters, and for me, if I could stop him and just guarantee that championship for sure, that would be the icing on the cake.”
