By Norm Frauenheim –
Elijah Garcia, an emerging middleweight from Phoenix, will fight on the Tank Davis-Ryan Garcia card on April 22 against Kevin Salgado Zambrano, Garcia manager Anthony McDonald said.
Garcia (14-0, 12 KOs), who has dropped six of his last seven opponents, had announced on his web page that he would fight on the much-anticipated card on DAZN/Showtime pay-per-view at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena. But it wasn’t clear who his opponent would be.
Garcia’s management had approached Shane Mosley Jr., son of Hall of Famer Sugar Shane Mosley.
“He declined,’’ McDonald said.
Zambrano (15-1-1, 10 KOs) is a 25-year-old fighter, born in Mexico City and now living in San Antonio. He’s 1-1-1 over his last three bouts.
Zambrano’s lone loss is to Joey Spencer, who lost a seventh-round TKO to junior-middleweight prospect and fellow Arizona fighter Jesus Ramos March 25 on a card featuring Phoenix super-middleweight David Benavidez’ decision over Caleb Plant at Vegas’ MGM Grand.
The 19-year-old Garcia, who is coming off an attention-grabbing fourth-round stoppage of formerly unbeaten Amilcar Vidal on March 4, is just the latest in a promising generation of fighters with AZ roots. He wears 602, the Phoenix area code, on his waistband.
