GOLDEN BOY ENTERPRISES
Moderator: Kelly Swanson
March 28, 2007, 2:00 p.m. EST
KELLY SWANSON: Welcome everybody. Thank you for calling up today for the first of many conference calls for the World Awaits, De La Hoya versus Mayweather. At this time, I’d like to turn the call over to Richard Schaefer, Chief Executive Officer of Golden Boy Promotions, Richard.
RICHARD SCHAEFER, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, GOLDEN BOY PROMOTIONS: Good morning, good afternoon. The world awaits De La Hoya versus Mayweather, everyone is talking on May fifth, the whole world will be watching. As we all know, Saturday May fifth, MGM Grand in Las Vegas and live on HBO Pay Per View. It’s going to be the biggest fight in the history of the sport.
Again, I’m just amazed here. We have over 100 people on this conference call, and I’m really excited to announce that we will bring a series of weekly conference call to you for this fight. Every Wednesday at 2:00pm eastern, 11 a.m. pacific time until fight week. We will have a variety of topics with fight information, updates and with different guests.
Because of the magnitude of this fight, both fighters have agreed to be with us today for a brief and early training camp report. Floyd Mayweather will go first, followed immediately by Oscar De La Hoya. We are lucky to have them join us two times for this fight, as they will come back and join us again on the last call of this series, which will be the week before the right.
Before we’re going to bring you the fighters now, a couple of other exciting announcements. Dish Network in a first and in an effort to ease the demands and make the ordering less stressful for its customer, has started to take orders for the fight. That never happened before, I mean that far out, people are all ready calling in to order the fight.
The other satellite and cable distributors are going to be available three weeks before the fight to take orders.
De La Hoya, Mayweather 24/7 the exciting and first as well HBO series, remember will premier Sunday April 15, at 10:30 p.m. eastern and pacific on HBO in a prime spot following