Almost a dozen years ago, Shawn Porter was the co-main event fighter on a Los Angeles Sports Arena card that included these former, current and future world champions:
Errol Spence Jr., Joseph Diaz Jr., Deontay Wilder, Leo Santa Cruz and Amir Khan.
He knows what a deep card looks like.
And so the loaded Aug. 3 roster coming to the six-year-old LAFC BMO Stadium that was constructed over the razed grounds of the hallowed Sports Arena served as inspiration Thursday for Porter and the cast of analysts on ProBox TV’s “Deep Waters” to consider a dream scenario.
If money was no object – as seems to be with Saudi Arabia’s boxing benefactor His Excellency Turki Alalshikh, chairman of the kingdom’s general entertainment authority – what card would each analyst create.
Porter said his main event would be the long-denied meeting of former heavyweight champions Anthony Joshua versus Deontay Wilder.
His co-main would be the most-longed-for fight of the moment: undisputed super-middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez versus unbeaten former champion David Benavidez.
The other bouts would be Aug. 3 main-event fighter Terence Crawford meeting another junior-middleweight champion, the unified (WBC-WBO) Sebastian Fundora, and what Porter calls “the best stylistic fight in the world” pitting unbeaten lightweight champions Shakur Stevenson and Gervonta “Tank” Davis.
Hearing that, fellow analyst and former welterweight champion Paulie Malig
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