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LOS ANGELES, CA – Juan Manuel Marquez, the WBC Super Featherweight World Champion, and challenger, Ricardo Rocky Juarez, both weighted in under the WBC 30 day pre-fight weight limit in Mexico City and Houston, from their respective training camps.
LAS VEGAS – The records are pristine and spectacular – a combined 81-0 with 55 knockouts. However, the stage is now set for “Pretty Boy” Floyd Mayweather or Ricky “The Hitman” Hatton to face a blemish on their record Saturday, Dec. 8, something both men are willing to go to war to prevent. Golden Boy Promotions and Mayweather Promotions are proud to present “UNDEFEATED”, a historic night of boxing featuring two undefeated champions battling for Mayweather’s World Welterweight Championship at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
NEW YORK, NY – “Fast & Furious” is the only way to describe this epic rumble between two of boxing’s top pound for pound superstars -- undefeated WBA world welterweight champion MIGUEL COTTO and four-time world champion SUGAR SHANE MOSLEY. Promoted by Golden Boy Promotions and Top Rank, in association with Madison Square Garden, “Fast & Furious” will take place Saturday, November 10, at the “Mecca of Boxing,” Madison Square Garden. The 12-round world welterweight title fight will be produced and distributed live on HBO Pay-Per-View, beginning at 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT.
LOS ANGELES – When one door closes, another door opens and that is exactly the case when Ricardo Rocky Juarez will have a shot at Juan Manuel Marquez and his WBC Super Featherweight World Title at MGM Grand in Las Vegas on “Fireworks” live on Pay-Per-View on September 15th.
LOS ANGELES – They are two of boxing's best, two of the most exciting fighters in the sport today, and both are undefeated. They stand atop their weight divisions and fight fans are in for a thrill as pound-for-pound king of the ring and welterweight champion " Pretty Boy" Floyd Mayweather will meet British icon and junior welterweight champion Ricky "The Hitman" Hatton on Saturday, December 8 for the 147-pound championship. With a combined record of 81-0, this is the biggest match-up of two undefeated welterweights since the record setting mega-fight between Oscar de la Hoya and Felix Trinidad in 1999.
LOS ANGELES – The hours at the gyms have been long, the training intense, but for the warriors of Mexico and The Philippines, the payoff will be worth it if they can win a majority of the seven scheduled bouts on August 11th – not just for themselves, but for their countries as well, as they compete in the 2007 Boxing World Cup at the Arco Arena in Sacramento, California.
Kelly Swanson: Swanson Communications. Thank you so much you guys. Thank you everybody for being patient. It's quite a feat to have three of the greatest fighters in boxing on the line at the same time. We are fortunate enough today to have both Felix Tito Trinidad and Jermain Taylor on the phone to discuss this Saturday's big contest between Bernard Hopkins and Winky Wright for the light heavyweight title.
LAS VEGAS - The up-and-coming, unbeaten, and current USBA Light Welterweight Champion, 26-year-old Demetrius "The Gladiator" Hopkins will join his uncle, Bernard "The Executioner" Hopkins, in the extremely talented lineup for the July 21 fight night at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. With a spectacular record of 26-0-1, 10 KO's—comparable to his uncle's record around that age—he will take on Jailer Enrique Berrio (11-2, 7 KO's) in a super lightweight match scheduled for 10 rounds on July 21—the belt will not be on the line. The Hopkins' fights will be just two of eight thrilling bouts that evening.
KELLY SWANSON: Thank you everyone for calling in today to join the Winky Wright conference call. I’m going to go ahead and turn it over to Oscar de la Hoya, President, Golden Boy Promotions.
KELLY SWANSON, HOST: OK, thank you very much, operator, and thanks everybody for joining us today on the Bernard Hopkins conference call. Just to go over some details, the Hopkins Wright “Coming to Fight” is July 21st, it’s Saturday, July 21st, at the Mandalay Bay Resorts and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. The fight is promoted by Golden Boy Promotions in association with Winky Promotions, and sponsored by Southwest Airlines, Tecate Beer and Rockstar Energy Drink. The HBO Pay-Per-View show will be televised live at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time, that’s the time it will start. Golden Boy will have a great under card to compliment the Hopkins Wright fight.