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LOS ANGELES - On Saturday, October 10, the much anticipated return of Mexican superstar and former world champion Israel "Magnifico" Vazquez, will finally occur as he takes on Angel Priolo at Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles, California.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER - "To go down as a legend, you have to face the best in your era and Marquez is one of the best in my era.
LOS ANGELES - The stage is set for Golden Boy Promotions to co-promote the WBA's annual KO Drugs event along withPromociones y Eventos del Istmo from Panama City, Panama. The blockbuster fight card, which will be a benefit for the National Association Against Cancer in Panama, will feature the WBA Interim Flyweight World Championship bout between Luis Concepcion of Panama and Omar Salado of Mexico in the twelve round main event. In the co-feature, a shot at WBA Featherweight Champion is on the line in a twelve round eliminator between Daniel Ponce De Leon of Mexico and Panama's Roinet Caballero. The bouts will take place atArena Roberto Duran and will be televised on HBO Plus' monthly original series "Next Boxing Generation".
Kelly Swanson: Thank you everybody for joining us. I know personally this is the moment I've been waiting for. I'm so excited to have Floyd Mayweather back to boxing.
Oscar de la Hoya: We are here to once again introduce to you to Mayweather vs. Marquez "Number One/ Numero Uno," which is promoted by Mayweather Promotions, Golden Boy Promotions and is in association with Marquez Boxing Promotions. We have a great line up of sponsors and I want to thank the sponsors for making themselves available in promoting this fight--Cerveza Tecate, AT&T, Quaker State, Dewalt Tools, Affliction Clothing and Southwest Airlines, where every single sponsor - and this is unheard of - is doing activations all over the country and making sure people are aware of the fight, getting people excited about the fight and therefore we are going to witness the biggest event of this year in the sport of boxing. Thanks to the participants and thanks to the great sponsors. The fight is Saturday, September 19 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas and live on pay-per-view. And again we at Golden Boy, are very proud to announce that we will be showing this fight in more than 170 movie theaters across the country which is unheard of in the sport of boxing, but that goes to show you that the interest, the creative mind that we have among our teams with Mayweather and Marquez and Golden Boy, that we really can promote an event and make it the biggest possible in our sport. Tickets are priced at $1,000, $750, $600, $300, $150 and can be purchased at mgmgrand.com or ticketmaster.com. We are once again honored and proud to be partnering with HBO, and 24/7 will be premiering Saturday, August 29 10:15 pm ET/PT. And now I am going to introduce you to the trainer of Marquez, and that is the Hall of Fame trainer who also trained Marquez's brother Rafael Marquez and that is the Ignacio "Nacho" Beristain.
Richard Schaefer: Welcome everybody to the first of a series of weekly conference calls leading up to the great showdown "Number One / Numero Uno" between Floyd Mayweather and Juan Manuel Marquez on September 19 live from the MGM Grand in Vegas. Tickets are still available. They're priced from $150 to $1000. It's a great event. We have an amazing line up of sponsors who are supporting this event: Tecate, Quaker Steak, AT&T, DeWalt Tools, Affliction and Southwest Airlines. The call today is about the undercard and I'm really proud to say that going back to 2000 when I started to get involved in boxing, this really is the best on the card I have seen so far of any promoter and any promotion. A big thank you goes out to one guy who really made it happen and that is Floyd Mayweather. Floyd Mayweather gave instructions to Leonard Ellerbe and me to really create an event within the event. And what I mean is that this is an under card which could really stand on its own. There are two fights in there which could be stand alone HBO events and so I really want to thank Floyd for the commitment to this card to really create that event within the event. I want to thank our respective matchmakers as well, the matchmakers of Mayweather Promotions and Golden Boy Promotions, Eric Gomez, for getting these fights done. When you put together this level of fights it's always a lot of fine tuning and negotiation and so on, but they were able to pull it off. Now it's my pleasure to turn it over to the president of Golden Boy Promotions, Oscar De La Hoya, who is going to be talking about two of the fights. Then I will turn it over to Leonard Ellerbe who will be talking about one of the fights. We are going to have the fighters on the call. They're going to make brief comments and then we're going to have it open to you guys for any questions. Please Oscar.
Bernard Hopkins, Former Two-Division World Champion and Golden Boy Promotions Partner "If you think you're not going to see action unless you see the main event, you're doing yourself a disservice. When you come to the fight early (and see the undercard) you see the future of boxing."
LOS ANGELES - The Nevada State Athletic Commission announced today the names of the referee and judges who will officiate the Floyd "Money" Mayweather vs. Juan Manuel "Dinamita" Marquez super fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Saturday, Sept. 19.
Mares vs. Fulgencio will be featured in the main event of the evening in an eight-round junior featherweight bout while Rodela vs. Rodriguez will be the co-featured six-round junior lightweight fight.
LOS ANGELES - Houston's finest will be out in force at Toyota Center on the Saturday, August 22 HBO Boxing After Dark undercard, as unbeaten hometown rising stars Hylon Williams and Jermell Charlo will be featured on the hottest night of the boxing summer.