Las Vegas MGM Grand Site For WBA Welterweight Title
Manny Pacquiao and Adrien Broner will be fighting for the secondary World Boxing Assn. welterweight title, to be held Saturday, Jan. 19, at the MGM in Las Vegas.
The fight was announced in a pair of press conferences, held Nov. 19 and 20 in New York and Los Angeles, respectively.
The 40-year-old Pacquiao has a record of 60-7-2 with 39 knockouts and last fought in July. That was a seventh-round technical knockout of Lucas Matthysse – Pacquiao’s first knockout since 2009 – for the welterweight belt.
He will be defending that belt against the 29-year-old Broner, who is 33-3-1 with 24 KOs. Broner’s nickname is “The Problem.”
The event will be aired on Showtime PPV.
“I’m coming to win, Broner said at the Los Angeles press conference. “I’m going to be victorious. They (the Pacquiao camp) keeps talking about Floyd (Mayweather II,) but they’ve got to get past me.”
Pacquiao and his people downplayed any “looking head” to fighting Mayweather (supposedly on Cinco de Mayo, according to rumors), saying they are squarely focused on defeating Broner.
This is not going to be an easy fight with Broner and its hard to answer about Floyd now, “Pacquiao said. “He (Broner) is a good boxer, he’s a champion, he’s young, and he’s fast. It’s going to be a god fight, a once-in-a-lifestyle fight. I want to give him a fight he will never forget.”
He later added, “my focus is on this fight. Right now, there no rematch. I am fighting with Broner.
And Broner said it won’t be an easy fight for Pacquiao.
“I just feel he can’t beat me,” Broner said. “Look at my resume.” He also said “I don’t see Manny Pacquiao beating me.”
In case you are wondering, Broner was not acting arrogant during his comments. Only confident. And he and Pacquiao exchanged several laughs and smiles together and there were no tense moments between the two at the press conference.
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