Danny Garcia 146.5 vs Keith Thurman 146.25
(WBC World welterweight title)
(WBA Super World welterweight title)
David Haye scaled his usual comeback weight of 224 pounds on Thursday as the Londoner prepares to face Tony Bellew on Saturday night. Bellew, the current WBC Cruiserweight champion, added 13 pounds to his bulk by coming in at 213 or 15 stone 2.
The third installment of All Access Daily immerses viewers with two elite prizefighters, Keith Thurman and Danny Garcia, as they meet with the media and continue to train for the biggest fight of their respective careers. The undefeated welterweight world champions battle for supremacy in boxing’s glamour division on Saturday, Mar. 4 at 9PM ET/6PM PT on CBS.
Danny Garcia is an undefeated world titleholder. He has unified belts in one weight class and is on the verge of doing so in another at age 28. Yet, Garcia is ever the underdog. Garcia wasn't supposed to beat Amir Khan when they met to unify junior welterweight world titles in 2012. But guess what? Garcia drilled him in the fourth round.
Rising middleweight contender Sergiy Derevyanchenko (9-0, 7 KOs) will battle unbeaten Kemahl Russell (10-0, 8 KOs) in the 10-round main event of Premier Boxing Champions TOE-TO-TOE TUESDAYS on FS1 & BOXEO DE CAMPEONES on FOX Deportes Tuesday, March 14 from the Fitz Tunica Casino & Hotel in Tunica, Mississippi.
Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum will not be surprised if the funds to promote the Manny Pacquiao v Amir Khan in the UAE on May 20 do not materialise but if it does he will assist in making it a tremendous world wide event but he said he is not holding his breath.
Due to two failed drug tests, the WBC has suspended heavyweight Alexander Povetkin from participating in any WBC-sanctioned bouts indefinitely and fined him $250,000. On April 27, 2016, Povetkin tested positive for Meldonium and on December 6, 2016, he tested positive for Ostarine.
The 33 year-old Tony Bellew, stepping up to heavyweight for the first time, bids to shock former two-weight world champion David Haye and the Londoner’s charge towards a possible world title fight against Anthony Joshua or Wladimir Klitschko.
Super middleweight contender Martin Murray and Gabriel Rosado have participated in six world title fights between them but are a combined 0-5-1, including each suffering a knockout loss to middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin.
Unbeaten WBC bantamweight champ Shinsuke Yamanaka (27-0-2, 19 KOs) successfully kept his belt as he decked Mexican Carlos Carlson (22-2, 13 KOs) five times and halted him at 0:57 in the seventh round on Thursday in Tokyo, Japan. The 34-yer-old Japanese southpaw, making his twelfth defense, sent him to the canvas—twice in the fifth, once in the sixth and twice more in the final seventh.
