Danny Garcia will return one last time to the venue where many of his most meaningful fights occurred.<\/p>\n
Garcia announced Wednesday that he\u2019ll battle Daniel Gonzalez in a 10-round junior middleweight match October 18 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Philadelphia\u2019s Garcia, 37, is winding down a career in which he won world titles at junior welterweight and welterweight.<\/p>\n
Garcia didn\u2019t state that this will be the last fight of a pro career he launched in November 2007, but he doesn\u2019t plan to fight much longer. Erislandy Lara<\/a> stopped Garcia after the ninth round of Garcia\u2019s most recent bout \u2013 a fight for Lara\u2019s WBA middleweight title almost a year ago at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n His loss to Lara, who dropped Garcia in the 9th round and led by big margins on all three scorecards, marked the first time Garcia lost by knockout in 41 professional fights. Though 1-2 in his past three fights and largely inactive for the past five years, Garcia (37-4, 21 KOs) is considered a big favorite over Queens\u2019 Gonzalez (22-4-1, 7 KOs).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThe fans have supported me the whole way, since I first fought here, and have made Brooklyn feel like my home outside of Philly,\u201d Garcia said in a press release distributed Wednesday. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing like a big fight night at Barclays Center. I had to do this show for the fans and show them how much I\u2019ve appreciated them this entire time.<\/p>\n \u201cThe best way to say goodbye is by fighting here one last time and giving them a tremendous night of boxing full of rising young talent. It\u2019s gonna be the DSG show in Brooklyn once again on October 18!\u201d<\/p>\n Garcia is 7-2 at Barclays Center since he first fought at the home arena of the NBA\u2019s Nets in October 2012. He knocked out Mexican legend Erik Morales in the fourth round of their rematch that night.<\/p>\n Garcia later beat former champions Zab Judah, Lamont Peterson, Paulie Malignaggi and Robert Guerrero at Barclays Center. Keith Thurman<\/a> and Shawn Porter<\/a> also defeated Garcia in welterweight title fights there.<\/p>\n Tickets to this card, promoted by Garcia\u2019s company, go on sale Thursday at 11 a.m. ET and can be bought via ticketmaster.com.<\/p>\n Keith Idec is a senior writer and columnist for The Ring. He can be reached on X @idecboxing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Danny Garcia will return one last time to the venue where many of his most meaningful fights occurred.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,2989,2983,2831,2988,2981,2984,2985,2986,2987,2982,1920,2993,2992,1913,2976,2977,2990,2978,2975,2994,2772,85,2991,2974,2980,2979],"class_list":["post-117614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-community","tag-boxing-fights","tag-boxing-history","tag-boxing-interviews","tag-boxing-magazine","tag-boxing-photos","tag-boxing-rankings","tag-boxing-results","tag-boxing-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-boxing-news","tag-disqualification","tag-draw","tag-fight","tag-fighter","tag-fighter-news","tag-knockout","tag-latest-boxing-matches","tag-ring","tag-ring-magazine","tag-split-decision","tag-sports","tag-technical-knockout","tag-the-ring","tag-top-fighters","tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}