By Keith Idec

Brett Yormark’s enthusiasm is understandable.

After beating out prominent Los Angeles and Las Vegas venues for the highly anticipated Adrien Broner-Mikey Garcia fight July 29, the Barclays Center executive is feeling better than ever about the building’s investment in boxing and its Brooklyn Boxing brand.

“I think this is a marquee event of the summer, forget about boxing, but just in New York,” Yormark, chief executive officer for Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment, told BoxingScene.com. “This is a major event. I think at the end of the day, this really solidifies us the No. 1 venue in the country for championship boxing. There’s just no question about it. We’re either in the conversation or we get the fights. It’s exciting.”

Representatives for Staples Center in Los Angeles and MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas also made strong bids to host the junior welterweight bout between Cincinnati’s Broner (33-2, 24 KOs) and Southern California’s Garcia (36-0, 30 KOs), the WBC lightweight champion.

The card headlined by Broner-Garcia will be the fourth boxing event at Barclays Center in the first seven months of 2017.

“You look at what we’ve done already this year with James DeGale and Badou Jack [on January 14],” Yormark said. “Then we roll into [Keith] Thurman-[Danny] Garcia [on March 4]. Then it was [Shawn] Porter-[Andre] Berto [on April 22]. And we’ll have a nice card at Nassau Coliseum [on July 15], which will be on FOX and from top to bottom it’s a pretty deep card. And then you come back to Brooklyn at the end of July with Broner-Garcia, which should be very exciting. I’m really looking forward to that. And then there’s probably gonna be more to come this fall. So it’s been a great, great start to the year for us.”

Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment also operates the newly renovated Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York. The first boxing card in 31 years will take place at the refurbished former home of the NHL’s New York Islanders on July 15.

Yormark said there will be one or two more boxing events at Barclays Center in 2017 following the Broner-Garcia card July 29 (Showtime). He also expects the company to stage one more boxing card at Nassau Coliseum in 2017 following the July 15 show, which will feature welterweights Robert Guerrero (33-5-1, 18 KOs, 2 NC) and Omar Figueroa (26-0-1, 18 KOs) in the 10-round main event (FOX).

“When you look at both Nassau and Barclays, [Broner-Garcia] is our fifth fight of the year and our fourth in Brooklyn,” Yormark said. “And I think when you look at the two venues, between the two we should probably be at seven, possibly eight [boxing cards by the end of the year].”

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.