Fight night

When: 7 p.m. Saturday.

Where: Staples Center, Los Angeles

Main event: Mikey Garcia (38-0) vs. Robert Easter Jr. (21-0), lightweight unification

TV: Showtime.

Odds: Garcia -900; Easter +600 to do it, and that’s what excites me and motivates me the most.”

Not many believed Sugar Ray Leonard could defeat Marvin Hagler in 1987 when he moved up from welterweight to middleweight. He did.

The great ones seek the toughest challenges. That’s what Garcia is doing.

Garcia vs. Porter

Former welterweight champions Danny Garcia and Shawn Porter will meet Sept. 8 for a showdown in New York, with the WBC belt Thurman vacated on the line.

Porter, a Las Vegas resident, and Garcia both lost to Thurman. The winner will probably get a rematch when Thurman regains his health.

“I’m going to force Danny Garcia to fight me, to be uncomfortable and to do things he’s not used to doing in a fight,” Porter said. “If Danny comes in being defensive and trying to hold, it may last a while. But if he comes and tries to trade with me and prove something to himself, then it will end fast.”

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