Top Rank Boxing: Margarito vs. Garcia Heats Up

ByBoxing Press

It’s getting close to fight time and the three time world welterweight champion, Antonio Margarito is very anxious to get in the ring and fight for the first time in over 15 months.

“I have been working in the gym for over one year but it is not the same as getting into the ring and fighting before a crowd, and without headgear. Saturday night can’t come soon enough for me,” said Margarito today, during an hour-long International Satellite Tour from his hotel in Aguascalientes, México.

Margarito will battle Roberto Garcia in the 10 round super welterweight main event of “Latin Fury 14,” the big championship card which will be televised Live on Pay-Per-View from the Plaza de Toros Monumental in Aguascalientes in the final weekend of the San Marcos Fair.

“Its going to be a good fight. Garcia is a big puncher who comes forward and as everyone knows so do I. It will be a great fight for the fans,” said Margarito.

Garcia knows he is the underdog, but is confident he will get the victory on Saturday.

“I am very hungry and this is the biggest opportunity of my career. I will prove to everyone that I can beat the best fighters in the world”, said Garcia.

The Official Weigh-In is scheduled to begin at Noon local time on Friday at the “Tecate Boxing Tour” site at the fairgrounds.

Top Rank will offer another exciting entry in its webcast series, TRLiveStream, today, Friday, May 7, beginning at 1 P.M. ET / 10 A.M. PT, with a live broadcast from Aguascalientes, Mexico, of the weigh-in for “Latin Fury 14.”

The following day, Saturday, May 8, beginning at 7 P.M. ET / 4 P.M. PT, Top Rank will air the non-televised undercard bouts from the Latin Fury 14 card. Both events are available for free and will air exclusively on www.TopRank.com/TRLiveStream.

Promoted by Top Rank, in association with Zanfer Promotions and Tecate, the four-bout Latin Fury 14 will be broadcast Live on Pay-Per-View, on Saturday, May 8, beginning at 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT, from Aguascalientes, México, which will be celebrating the San Marcos Fair.

Headlined by the Margarito-Garcia 10-round super welterweight rumble, the pay-per-view undercard will feature World Boxing Association (WBA) interim super featherweight champion Jorge Solis (38-2-2), of Guadalajara, México, defending his title against top-10 contender and one-time world title challenger Mario Santiago (21-2-1, 14 KOs), of Ponce, Puerto Rico; top-five contenders Urbano Antillion (27-1, 20 KOs), of Maywood, Calif., and Rene “Super Chiroz” Gonzalez (27-1-1, 21 KOs), of Managua, Nicaragua, battle it out in a WBA lightweight title elimination bout; and the pay-per-view debut of flyweight sensation Alfonso López (4-0, 2 KOs), of México City, México, the son of legendary world champion and Mexican icon Ricardo López.