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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. [details]
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Interesting - Beristain seems to be saying that the philboxing.com interview with him was a complete fabrication. If so, I wonder why he's waited until now before responding to it. Even now, he doesn't sound exactly outraged, which is surprising, if the "interview" with him on philboxing.com really was pure fiction.Originally posted by BIGPOPPAPUMP View Post -
1st nacho acknowledges that bulking up in weight there will be a loss of speed... then he says juan is gaining more speed than he has in past fights...No, there's always concern when you're bulking up in weight and working and training that you're going to lose a little bit of speed. But no, on the contrary I'm very happy to say that Juan at this point in training has been acquiring much more speed than in fights in the past. Everything's come together. So, we're looking very, very good. I'm very happy to how things are coming along. And we'll see on September 19.. - Nacho Beristain
nacho is very contradictory. sounds like nacho is very conscious to cover all the bases, providing an excuse should jmm lose, but also being confident of victory.Comment
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I predict this will be a very very boring slow pace fight, I predict a lot of Booooooooooooooo's. Feel bad for JMM he is a great boxer but just not to fun to watch, same with FloydComment
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yeah
marquez all the way
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De La Hoya is being part of the problem by saying titles don't mean anything anymore. The hell they don't. And even if what he said was somewhat true, he could've worded it in a different way. Championships are what let people know who the best in each division is. Just say the sanctioning bodies are meaningless because they don't recognize the #1 fighter in each division. This guy is just totally clueless it seems like with the **** he says.Comment
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but just saying the sanctioning bodies are meaningless doesn't sell numero uno. that doesn't justify a 135 lber (former 126 lber) hopscotching 140 lbs to fight arguably the best boxer of this generation at 147 lbs.Originally posted by Iceta View Post
only by saying that titles (ie. weight divisions) are meaningless can he sell pbf/jmm.Comment
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I'm not a big fan of catch weight fights even though I believe this fight will be more competitive than people expect. In fact, I'm picking JMM to pull off the upset. It will be more dirt that will be shoveled on Floyd if he loses to a fighter this small rather than someone his own size. So I'm all for it. JMM would've got more credit if he fought Floyd at 147. It's a lot to ask of him, but the excuses like weight drain will fly around along with these other things that Floyd has to deal with outside of the ring.Originally posted by Pullcounter View PostComment
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what about the meaningless title cotto -pacv the wbo ? this fight sells itself its rather an intriuging fight,i think jmm has a bigger chance of beating floyd than cotto of pac. I dont see jmm winning even though hes my top fave, but given floyd pretty much lost to castillo the first bout ,total gift decision anything can happen. if it goes the distance and its close theyll give it to floyd to set up pac fight,just like they did with cotto against clottey to set up his fight with pac.Originally posted by Pullcounter View PostComment
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