Joshua Franco Aims to Continue Along the Comeback Trail

By: Sean Crose
“I trained very hard for it,” Joshua Franco tells me. It's a rainy Tuesday evening. In just over 48 hours, Franco will be stepping into the ring to face fellow bantamweight Oscar Negrede in a bout which will be the main attraction on an ESPN card. “I know,” he adds, “how it's going to be.” That's something all professional fighters want to be able to say – that they know how it's going to be, even if there's no way to prove it until they