Gervonta Davis and Ryan Garcia have a site for their pay-per-view showdown April 22 in Las Vegas.
Premier Boxing Champions and Showtime announced Monday night that Davis and Garcia will fight at T-Mobile Arena, the venue where numerous high-profile boxing events have been held since it opened in 2016. The Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium and MGM Grand Garden Arena also were considered before organizers of Davis-Garcia agreed on T-Mobile Arena, home of the NHL’s Golden Knights.
Tickets for Davis-Garcia figure to sell out quickly. T-Mobile Arena can accommodate approximately 22,000 fans for boxing, roughly 5,000 more than nearby MGM Grand Garden Arena, which also has been the site of countless huge boxing cards since it opened in 1993.
Allegiant Stadium hasn’t held a boxing event since it opened in 2020. Thanks to expansive floor seating, Allegiant Stadium could hold more than 70,000 fans for boxing.
Neither Davis, who has packed various venues throughout the United States, nor Garcia have headlined a show at T-Mobile Arena. Davis and Garcia have fought once apiece at T-Mobile Arena, but on pay-per-view cards that featured Floyd Mayweather and Canelo Alvarez, respectively.
Baltimore’s Davis and Garcia, of Victorville, California, officially announced February 24 through their social media accounts that their Showtime Pay-Per-View main event was set for April 22, a week later than anticipated. April 15 was the targeted date for their fight during much of the prolonged conclusion to their negotiations after Davis stopped Hector Luis Garcia on January 7, but it was pushed back one week.
Davis and Garcia initially announced on social media November 17 that they would fight on an unspecified date in 2023 at an undetermined venue in Las Vegas.
With their fight scheduled for six weeks from Saturday night, Davis and Garcia will participate in two press conferences this week to promote their 12-round, 136-pound bout.
Davis (28-0, 26 KOs) and Garcia (23-0, 19 KOs) will first come face to face Wednesday in Manhattan. They’ll then fly to Los Angeles, where the rivals will participate in another press conference Thursday in Beverly Hills.
They’ll then return to their training camps to continue preparing for the biggest fight on the boxing calendar in the United States this year.
Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.