“This gives me the opportunity to be back on the mountain top.” – Danny Garcia

“I finally have the opportunity to get what I want.” – Shawn Porter

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SHOWTIME Sports® provides a glimpse into the mindsets of Danny Garcia and Shawn Porter as the two former world champions met face-to-face last week in New York City to officially announce their September 8 bout for the vacant WBC Welterweight World Championship, 쇼 타임에 살고 (9 시이. 동부 / 6 시이. PT) 바클레이 센터에서, BROOKLYN 권투 ™의 집.

The main event will pit two of the division’s biggest names against each other as former 147-pound champions Garcia (34-1, 20 KOS 호텔) 및 포터 (28-2-1, 17 KOS 호텔) are both eager regain their status at the pinnacle of one of boxing’s deepest divisions.

“I’m coming to fight and when I say that, I mean it,"가르시아는 말했다, who lost the WBC belt via a close split decision to Keith Thurman last year. “I feel motivated again and this gives me the opportunity to be back on the mountain top where I’ve been at for so long.”

“When you have a belt, everything else comes to you,” said Porter, who also lost to Thurman via decision in a 2016 올해 후보의 싸움. “I want the WBC title and I’ve said for a long time it didn’t matter who I had to go through to get it. It’s icing on the cake that it happens to be this gentleman next to me.”

The SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING telecast also features top 147-pound contender Yordenis Ugas (22-3, 11 KOS 호텔) taking on Argentine power puncher Cesar Barrionuevo (34-3-2, 24 KOS 호텔) in a 147-pound title eliminator and unbeaten Polish heavyweight contender Adam Kownacki (17-0, 14 KOS 호텔) facing former heavyweight champion Charles Martin (25-1-1, 23 KOS 호텔).