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In addition to pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr. squaring off with Saul “Canelo” Alvarez in a much-anticipated junior middleweight unification fight and unified junior welterweight titlist Danny Garcia taking on interim titleholder Lucas Matthysse in another fight that boxing fans have demanded, two other bouts were added to round out the pay-per-view card on Sept. 14 (Showtime PPV) at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Junior middleweight titlist Ishe Smith, the first native Las Vegan to win a world title, will make his first defense, a mandatory, against Carlos Molina, and welterweights Pablo Cesar Cano of Mexico and Ashley Theophane of England will meet in the scheduled 10-round pay-per-view opener.
“With Mayweather and Canelo and Garcia-Matthysse we already know this is a huge show, but now we’ve added another world title fight with Ishe Smith and Carlos Molina and the opening fight between Cano and Theophane,” Golden Boy chief executive Richard Schaefer said. “(Golden Boy matchmaker) Eric (Gomez) told me he believes the Cano-Theophane fight is going to be a barnburner.
That’s what we wanted. We wanted to put on another great fight, not just a showcase fight. It’s not a mismatch or a showcase for either guy. I have no idea who’s going to win, and Eric says it’s going to be a tough, tough fight.”
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