Ryan Garcia vs Rolly Romero LIVE RESULTS: Card updates as Devin Haney and Teofimo Lopez feature on Times Square bill
Part I
Evening and welcome to the first day of three fantasticly set-up nights of boxing weekend ahead with a bit of everything for the sport's connoisseur.
The best two in the business, Canelo Álvarez and Naoya Inoue, will contend in sport's growing hotbeds, Riyadh and Vegas, but we start in New York as Ryan Garcia and co headline a monumental bill.
The card, like most of boxing's big nights nowadays, has been organised by The Ring Magazine and its chief Saudi matchmaker Turki Alalshikh. Their aim has been simple from the offset: to transcend the sport past its traditional barriers, and will accomplish that as the outdoor conditions of Times Squares host the event.
The streets of Manhattan will bear viewing for free as screens will be plastered around, with a select few being able to watch ringside.
'This is going to be very difficult for every single fighter,' said promoter Oscar De La Hoya at Thursday's weigh-in. 'As you can imagine, there will be people everywhere, distractions everywhere.'
Stay tuned for all the night's latest.
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