Current Golden Boy signee Arnold Barboza Jr confirmed immediately that, as first reported days in the past by Dan Rafael, he’ll return to motion on the April twentieth Devin Haney vs Ryan Garcia pay-per-view.
Barboza (29-0, 11 KO), who made his promotional debut final month with an eight-round beatdown of Xolisani Ndongeni, additionally implied that he’d be able to step in ought to the primary occasion disintegrate. Current developments make that uncomfortably possible; the final two days have been a trainwreck for Garcia, who bragged about being “excessive as fuck” on Instagram and proudly admitted to consuming and smoking weed throughout coaching.
I’m not saying fighters should be paragons of temperance within the lead-up to main fights, but when somebody considerably extra expert than you is making ready to punch you very arduous within the face, it’s clever to restrict unforced errors.
For proper now, although, TBA has the project. Golden Boy is brief on tremendous lightweights other than Ohara Davies, who isn’t precisely a scorching commodity after getting torched by Outdated Man Barroso, so that they’ll in all probability should dig into Matchroom’s lineup. Liam Paro could possibly be enjoyable; so far as I can inform, he’s out there after turning down Subriel Matias.