{"id":10614,"date":"2025-06-13T12:32:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T16:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/maca-debuts-at-madison-square-garden-young-promise-ready\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T12:32:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T16:32:38","slug":"maca-debuts-at-madison-square-garden-young-promise-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/boxing\/maca-debuts-at-madison-square-garden-young-promise-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Maca Debuts at Madison Square Garden: Young Promise Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0613%2Fr1506182_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nAdam Maca, 18 years old, will make his professional debut at Madison Square Garden on Saturday.\n\nA professional debut is always special, regardless of the event, the opponent, or the venue. But for Adam Maca, an 18-year-old junior featherweight, appearing at Madison Square Garden in New York was, literally, a contractual matter.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;[The manager] Sam [Jones], told me: &#8216;We will have the debut at MSG'&#8221;, Maca told Alofoke Deportes before his fight against Rafael Castillo, on the undercard of Richardson Hitchins&#8217; IBF super lightweight title defense against George Kambosos Jr.<\/p><cite>Adam Maca<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n&#8220;And then we got it in our contract with Matchroom. When they posted the fight poster on Instagram, it became a bit real and, obviously, when we booked our flights. That&#8217;s when it really became like: yeah, this is happening.&#8221;\n\nSeveral promoters approached the promising Maca, but it was Matchroom&#8217;s ability to take him to the Big Apple for his debut that sealed the deal.\n\nSaying it&#8217;s been a whirlwind week is an understatement.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Around the stadium, it&#8217;s not just boxing stuff, it&#8217;s all the sports and it&#8217;s the quotes of what people say about the stadium: &#8216;The most famous in the world, the best stadium in the world'&#8221;, said Maca.<\/p><cite>Adam Maca<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n&#8220;So boxing there in my debut is huge.&#8221;\n\nAfter winning several national titles, Maca, born in Brighton with Albanian and Yemeni ancestry, had no doubt that he wanted to become a professional as soon as possible.\n\n\u201cEver since I was younger I wanted to be a professional boxer and then, as I was approaching 18, I was still thinking, I can\u2019t wait to turn pro, I can\u2019t wait to turn 18 so I can turn pro,\u201d he said.\n\n&#8220;So there was never any idea in my mind that I was going to do anything else.&#8221;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Maca, 18 years old, will make his professional debut at Madison Square Garden on Saturday. A professional debut is always special, regardless of the event, the opponent, or the venue. But for Adam Maca, an 18-year-old junior featherweight, appearing at Madison Square Garden in New York was, literally, a contractual matter. &#8220;[The manager] Sam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[4051,205,2802,4052],"class_list":{"0":"post-10614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-adam-maca","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-madison-square-garden","11":"tag-matchroom"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}