Tweet
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. [details]
-
-
great interviews, cnt wait -
what's Schaefer smokin? He said this will sell more PPVs than Oscar vs Floyd.Comment
-
Wow, I like the three undercards too, and right they are equally entertaining as well! Can't wait to watch this fight!
Comment
-
Ahh so that's what the Great wall of text looks like, magnificent.
Either way good interviews.Comment
-
Mayweather/Marquez: The Undercard Fighters Speak
Wow, four fights and no crappy fights, as it used to be - I can't wait! Also, I can't wait 'til JMM defeats Mayweather - yes!!!Comment
-
lets hope everything goes through. pbf vs jmm and undercard.the cotto vs pac fight. their under card. juan diaz tomorrow.P.williams in october. arreolla for the hwt. juanma will fight soon. Gamboa will fight soon. rafa marquez is back. izzy is on his way back.things are lookin good for boxing.Comment
-
i dont see why any boxing fan would not order this fight. 3 good undercard fights plus floyd/jmm. ur gettin 4 good fights when u normally only get 1Comment
-
it takes the greediest mofo in the sport to put up the chips for a solid card! go figure.Comment
-
Yeah...it's a solid card. Katsidis always delivers and the Juarez-John rematch should be pretty good. But something about everyone involved with this seem pretty desperate to sell. They know boxing fans are tuning in and were counting on Floyd to bring in the rest of the mainstream media...but he's just not doing it. Still as desperate as they are I think 500k in PPV sales only because a strong Boxing fan turn out and a strong Mexican turn out....with a little bit of mainstream.Comment
Comment