De La Hoya-Mayweather Undercard Announced Conference Call Transcript


Golden Boy Enterprises
Moderator: Monica Sears
April 4, 2007, 2:00 p.m. ET

MONICA SEARS, PUBLIC RELATIONS COORDINATOR, GOLDEN BOY ENTERTAINMENT: Thank you, everyone, for joining us today on the second call on our weekly series leading up to the “World Awaits” May 5th Super Fight. I would like to turn the call over to Golden Boy Promotion’s CEO Richard Schaefer.

RICHARD SCHAEFER, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, GOLDEN BOY PROMOTIONS: Thank you, Monica. Welcome, all, to our second call of The World Awaits. Everybody is talking on May 5th. The whole world will be watching De La Hoya versus Mayweather.

On today’s call we have Golden Boy Matchmaker Eric Gomez, who will discuss and announce the under card for May 5th.

We have as well Rocky Juarez, one of the best featherweights in the world today, an amazing young man, who had two great fights against Barrera in the first, where he very, very narrowly missing the victory. We at Golden Boy, of course, are extremely happy to have Rocky part of the Golden Boy stable and family, and we have very big plans for him.

We have as well Scott Ghertner, Senior Vice President of the MGM Mirage, who will be discussing the odds of the fight and the changes which have occurred over the past few weeks with these odds.

Following these three guests, we will have a question-and-answer session, where all of us, including myself, are happy to answer any questions you might have.

But before we start, I would like to give you a brief update related to the fight. Today, we have the mandatory 30-day pre-fight weigh-in, which will take place under the supervision of the WBC in Puerto Rico for Oscar and Las Vegas for Floyd. This will happen in about three hours, and we will send out immediately a media alert informing you on what the respective weights are.

Today, Shane Mosley has arrived as well in Puerto Rico at camp to help Oscar prepare for his fight. Shane, by the way, will be on the call next week with his report from camp and how everything is going.

As we know, HBO is preparing a groundbreaking documentary series called 24/7, which is a four-part series airing in the best time slot on HBO on Sunday night following the new season


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