FRISCO, Texas (Jan 9, 2019) — Two of boxing's biggest stars — WBO featherweight champion world champion Oscar Valdez and undefeated lightweight sensation Teofimo Lopez — worked out for fans and media Wednesday to promote the Super Saturday quadruple-header, which will take place Saturday, Feb. 2 at Ford Center at the Star in Frisco, Texas.
Experts are confident world boxing’s only eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao is beyond ready to defend his WBA Welterweight title against former four-division world titleholder Adrien Broner this January 20, which will air live on SKY Sports Pay-Per-View.
Adrien ‘The Problem’ Broner (33-3-1-, 24 KOs) isn’t worried in the least about Manny Pacquiao’s superior hand speed ahead of their fight on January 19 on SHOWTIME PPV at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Broner, 29, says his timing will neutralize Pacquiao’s speed advantage on the night. Further, Broner isn’t worried about trying to match Pacquiao’s famous high volume work rate.
After four and half years out of the ring, former two division world champion Marcos Maidana (35-5, 31 KOs) is returning to boxing, and he’s targeting fights against Floyd Mayweather Jr., Saul Canelo Alvarez, Manny Pacquiao, and Amir Khan. We still don’t know if Maidana is seriously interested in coming back. If he was serious, he should have at least gotten in shape before he called out the aforementioned fighters.
WBA "regular" welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao is looking to face the best opponents possible in the remaining years of his pro career.
Last year, Pacquiao aligned himself with powerful adviser and the Premier Boxing Champions, Al Haymon.
Who: Top Rank chairman/Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum
WBO featherweight world champion Oscar Valdez
Undefeated lightweight sensation Teofimo Lopez
Dillian Whyte doesn’t rate unified cruiserweight champion Oleksander Usyk as a big enough name for him to be worthy of fighting, if he can’t get the match he wants against IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua on April 13 at Wembley Stadium in London, UK. As far as Whyte (25-1, 18 KOs) is concerned, there are only five fighters in the heavyweight division that are worth him fighting, and Usyk isn’t one of them due to him not being well known enough for him to fight him.
American boxing fans will be able to watch the February 23 fight between former IBF super middleweight champion James DeGale and Chris Eubank Jr. on a still to be determined network, according to Dan Rafael. The possible networks that could potentially televised the DeGale-Eubank Jr. fight are as follows: SHOWTIME or FOX/FS1.
Mikey Garcia (39-0, 30 KOs) is hard at work training at the SNAC [Scientific Nutrition for Advanced Conditioning] facility in San Carlos, California in preparing for his fight against IBF welterweight champion Errol Spence Jr. (24-0, 21 KOs) on March 16 at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
