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Danny Garcia – Samuel Vargas: By the Numbers

Danny-Garcia-flag-and-belts-casino-showtimeBy Jeffrey “Italian Medallion” Cellini

This Saturday night, at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, WBC World Welterweight champion Danny “Swift” Garcia, 32-0,18 KO’s will face Samuel Vargas, 25-2-1, 13 KO’s in a non-title fight. The fight will be televised on Premiere Boxing Champions on Spike TV.

The World Boxing Council is going to allow Danny Garcia to participate in the non-title defense without stripping him of his title. Garcia, who won the vacant WBC title against Robert Guerrero earlier this year in January, is already signed to face WBA champion Keith Thurman in a unification match next year. Garcia’s management looks bad in taking this fight against Vargas because he was knocked out in four rounds by Errol Spence last year. Garcia will need to defeat Vargas much quicker if he wants to look good.

Also, on the same card, former world champion Javier “El Abejon” Fortuna, 30-1-1, 22 KO’s will meet undefeated rising prospect Omar Douglas, 17-0, 12 KO’s in a lightweight contest. Fortuna lost his WBA World Super Featherweight title to Jason Sosa by 11th round technical knockout back in June of this year. Since then, 27-year old Fortuna rebounded with a technical knockout win over unbeaten Marlyn Cabrera back in September. The 25-year old Douglas, from Wilmington, Delaware, won his only fight this year back in June when knocked out Alexei Collado.

Undefeated super welterweight prospect Jarrett “Swift” Hurd, 18-0, 12 KO’s will face Ionut Dan Ion, 35-3, 18 KO’s. The 26-year old Hurd, who resides in Accokeek, Maryland, has won his last four fights by technical knockout, with victories over undefeated prospects Oscar Molina and Frank Galarza. The 35-year old Canadian lost to IBF World Welterweight champion Kell Brook in March of last year, when he retired at the end of the fourth round. Dan Ion was floored twice in the second and fourth rounds before quitting in his corner.
Middleweight prospects Kyrone “Shut It Down” Davis, 10-1, 4 KO’s and Carlos Gabriel Ozan, 12-1, 4 KO’s are scheduled to face each other.

Undefeated super lightweight prospect Milton Santiago, 15-0, 3 KO’s will square off with Claudio Rosendo Tapia, 28-16-4, 13 KO’s.

The fight card is being promoted by Marshall Kauffman (King’s Promotion), Reginaldo & Oswaldo Kuchle (Promociones del Pueblo), and Danny Garcia (DSG Promotions).

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