DANNY GARCIA<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m excited for this fight because I\u2019m a world championship-level fighter and this gives me the chance to be back where I\u2019ve been for so long. It doesn\u2019t matter who it is, I\u2019m just happy to be back and fighting for the title.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe loss against Keith Thurman hurt me for a little bit. I thought I finished the fight strong and won. At the end of the day though, I feel motivated again. I feel more motivated now than I did before the fight. There\u2019s something different inside of me.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no pressure on me, I\u2019m just going to come to fight. We can dance if he wants, but I guarantee I\u2019m coming to bang with him in the middle of the ring. I feel I\u2019m the stronger puncher, have the faster hands and and am the better all-around fighter.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m so used to hearing my dad\u2019s voice during a fight. Me and my dad are different than other people. We do a lot together outside of the ring. We\u2019re friends first because of where we came from. We\u2019re enjoying every moment and we\u2019re hungry for me.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the end of the day, my mindset is fully focused on September 8. I have to go grab this title and then you can ask me to fight anyone. I\u2019ve never turned down an opponent in my career. I\u2019m a fighter and this is what I do.<\/p>\n
“This wasn’t the first time someone has called me out and it won’t be the last. Come September 8, I will show the world once again why I am one of the best.<\/p>\n
“At the end of the day, I have to go in there and make adjustments and do what I do best. I\u2019ll set the tempo and the pace and take it one round at a time.<\/p>\n
“The fans at Barclays Center love me. This is the \u2018Danny Garcia Show.\u2019 Whenever I fight here, all I hear is ‘DSG! DSG!.\u2019 They are going to be there for me.”<\/p>\n
SHAWN PORTER<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\u201cI think for a long time, watching Danny do what he does and hearing him say what he\u2019d do to me, I got stirred up to the point where I really wanted this fight. I made that known after his fight against Brandon Rios and I think that\u2019s why we\u2019re here right now.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a great opportunity to get the fight I wanted for my career. I\u2019m thriving right now and you\u2019ll see it all on fight night.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a very difficult fighter to prepare for. You never know what you\u2019ll get with me. I\u2019m used to being the underdog and I thrive on it. I\u2019m the more intelligent fighter at the end of the day.<\/p>\n
\u201cMe and my dad are a little different than Angel and Danny. Boxing is our way of life and this is what he\u2019s grown me into. Fight night is like Christmas or another birthday. That\u2019s when we come together the most and make the best of every opportunity.<\/p>\n
\u201cBrooklyn doesn\u2019t like me because of what I wear or what I say, they like me because I come to fight and I entertain. That\u2019s all because of my dad and the tools he\u2019s given me to be the very best that I could be.<\/p>\n
“All of my abilities – power, quickness, the whole nine will help me get this victory. To beat Danny Garcia, you have to use your whole arsenal. Especially beating him in the fashion we want to beat him in. We want to look great.<\/p>\n
“We have seen Danny in the ring with different fighters with different styles. You can be aggressive and beat him, you can use the ring and outbox him, we are going to use them all.<\/p>\n
“At the end of the day, I learned a lesson in my last fight. My dad told me not to do anything for the crowd. You have to do what you have to do to win. September 8 isn’t going to be about making the crowd yell and winning them over. That is already done. It is a matter of going in there with whatever game plan we go with and making it happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe belt is all I want. Winning a title is always special, but beating Danny Garcia for it will be icing on the cake. He\u2019s been a top fighter for a long time and this win will help solidify me. Once I have the belt, the sky\u2019s the limit.\u201d<\/p>\n
ANGEL GARCIA, Danny\u2019s Father & Trainer<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\u201cI don\u2019t see anything special in Shawn Porter. He comes with his head, he comes wild. We\u2019re going to take care of him and we\u2019re going to work on him. He\u2019s not bringing anything to the table that I haven\u2019t seen before. It\u2019s Danny\u2019s time.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the end of the day we got a fight. Words are just words. I\u2019d give my life for Danny. I\u2019d take a bullet for him, I love him.<\/p>\n
\u201cListen, when Danny hits him on the right side he\u2019s going to feel it on the left. My son\u2019s power is like nothing he\u2019s ever seen before.<\/p>\n
\u201cListen, at the end of the night September 8th, Danny will be champion again. That belt is coming home with us and back to Philadelphia.\u201d<\/p>\n
KENNY PORTER, Shawn\u2019s Father & Trainer<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\u201cWe really enjoy fighting at Barclays Center. The energy there is different than any other location. It is a comfortable location for us and it is going to be an exciting night.<\/p>\n
\u201cTraining has been different in a lot of ways, but a very good different. We are doing a lot of things that we have never done before and we are excited about that. To do different things that create excitement and make you look forward to coming to train is always good.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey will not be prepared for us on fight night. We will start to focus on some of the things that we will do for Danny and in that aspect, there are some things we will have to prepare for differently.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe biggest thing is to make sure is that Shawn is ready. We\u2019re going to have a solid game plan that Shawn will know how to implement. We\u2019re going to make Danny adjust to us.\u201d<\/p>\n
LOU DIBELLA, President of DiBella Entertainment<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\u201cThese are two guys who have really made a name for themselves fighting in Brooklyn. They\u2019ve been a part of the best fights in Brooklyn. They are two of the best fighters and most exciting fighters in the sport. This is as good as it gets style-wise, period. These guys get that this is entertainment. These are two guys that entertain.<\/p>\n
\u201cShawn has come out on the short end a couple of times, and clearly those fights could have been scored differently. They were sensational fights as all of his bouts tend to be.<\/p>\n
\u201cDanny Garcia doesn\u2019t get enough respect, he gets out there and wins. He\u2019s a great fighter who does everything well, which makes him extremely dangerous.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese guys have earned this opportunity and the winner deserves the belt. The winner will get one of the biggest fights in the sport after this. Both guys are professionals who know the stakes on September 8.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is going to be an electric fight. The fans will be on the edge of their seats this whole night and you\u2019re not going to want to miss it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are two guys who know how to fight and will entertain you. Make sure you get your tickets early.\u201d<\/p>\n
BRETT YORMARK, CEO of BSE Global<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\u201cAs Lou said September 8th should be terrific. I am personally looking forward to it. It adds to our resume of BROOKLYN BOXING. It comes almost right at our 6th anniversary of Barclays Center.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth fighters are veterans in our ring. This is Danny\u2019s seventh fight in Brooklyn and Shaw\u2019s fifth and they have built fan bases here. Our presale in the first few days have been terrific.<\/p>\n
\u201cDanny opened the building for BROOKLYN BOXING almost six years ago and we thank you for that and we thank you for continuing to come back.<\/p>\n
\u201cShawn\u2019s last three fights have been in Brooklyn. I think you and your dad have been sitting ringside for every fight in Brooklyn and we are thrilled to have you back.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are thankful to be hosting the boxing industry time and time again and we are as committed as ever to bring the best of the best to Brooklyn and doing it consistently throughout the year. I look forward to seeing everyone on the 8th. It should be a spectacular night.\u201d<\/p>\n
STEPHEN ESPINOZA, President, Sports & Event Programming, Showtime Networks Inc.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\u201cGarcia vs. Porter will be the 12th SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING event of the year. That is just through September. Adding our other live boxing events, we have done 24 live boxing presentations this year. It is not just quantity; it is high quality.<\/p>\n
\u201cEight times on SHOWTIME this year alone, there have been top five fighters fighting each other. Here we have two of the strongest resumes not just in the welterweight division, but in the sport overall.<\/p>\n
\u201cDanny Garcia has 12 fights against current or former world champions. There is no question that Danny Garcia has one of the strongest resumes in the sport. I don\u2019t think he gets credit for it and it is time that he does. Of Shawn\u2019s last 11 fights, eight have been against former world champions. He always wants to fight in the very best fights.<\/p>\n
\u201cBetween the two of them, they have fought on SHOWTIME and\/or CBS combined 20 times. The best fighters, the biggest most meaningful fights. That\u2019s what we have been doing, and with fighters like Danny and Shawn, we are going to continue to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[AdSense-A] Photo by Amanda Westcott\/SHOWTIME Former world champions Danny Garcia and Shawn Porter went face-to-face Monday at a press conference to formally announce their showdown for the vacant WBC Welterweight World Championship Saturday, September 8 live on SHOWTIME from Barclays Center, the home of BROOKLYN BOXING\u2122. The SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING\u00ae main event (9 p.m. ET\/6 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18638],"class_list":["post-74249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-danny-garcia-shawn-porter-press-conference-erupts-breaking-boxing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74249"}],"version-history":[{"count":-1,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}