Golden Boy Enterprises
Moderator: Kelly Swanson
August 29, 2007, 3:00 p.m. ET

OPERATOR: At this time I would like to welcome everyone to the Golden Boy Promotions John Manuel Marquez and Rocky Juarez conference call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise.

It is now my pleasure to turn the floor over to your host, Kelly Swanson. Kelly, you may begin your conference.

KELLY SWANSON: Thank you, operator. Thank you, everybody, for joining us for this conference call today with John Manuel Marquez and followed by Rocky Juarez who will be coming on the line after Mr. Marquez is finished with his questions.

We’re really excited about this show. And just as a couple reminders for the media, a little homework here, if you haven’t sent in for your credentials you need to contact Magna Media as soon as possible, 702-262-6800 or AOLSON@magnamedia.com.

Just a little programming note as well, next week we will have another conference call we’re scheduling with Sergio Mora and Steve Forbes. There’s a lot of exciting action going back and forth between Golden Boy fighters and Contender Series fighters so they will have a lot to say too.

So please watch your mail over the Labor Day weekend for all updates, releases, and upcoming media alerts on other activities for this site. At this time I’d like to turn the call over and say a special welcome to the Chief Operating Officer of Golden Boy Promotions Dave Itskowitch.

DAVID ITSKOWITCH, CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER, GOLDEN BOY PROMOTIONS: All right. Thank you, Kelly. Thank you, Eric. Thank you all for calling in today. Thank you, Juan, for taking time out of training.

I just wanted to run through some information on the show before I turn it over to John Manuel for what he has to say about the fight and your questions for him.

Again, you know, the show is Saturday, September 15 live on pay-per-view from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. We have four fights featured on television, the first of which is Francisco Bojado is a 2000 Mexican Olympian versus Steve Forbes who is a contender alumni.

The second fight of the night that will appear on television will be IBF featherweight world champion Robert Guerrero versus Martin Honorio. The third fight will be another Golden Boy contender match-up which will be former world champion Kassim Ouma against season one contender winner Sergio Mora.

And of course rounding out the show will be John Manuel Marquez versus Rocky Juarez for John Manuel’s WBC Super Featherweight World Title. And this will be his first offense of that title.

Tickets are priced very reasonably for this fight for a big Vegas show, $300, $200, $100, and $50. They’re available through the MGM Grand Garden Arena Box Office and all Ticketmaster locations. And the pay-per-view will be distributed by HBO pay-per-view. It has a start time of 9 p.m. Eastern time, 6 p.m. Pacific time, and has a suggested retail price of $44.95.

The event itself is, you know, a great night of boxing. You’ve got four fights where you just don’t know what’s going to happen. We’re calling the event fireworks because there’s going to be fireworks in the fights, and it’s also Mexican Independence Day weekend.

So it’s going to be a pretty exciting night top to bottom. And of course the main event is Juan Manuel Marquez versus Rocky Juarez. And rather than having make you guys sit through my shtick anymore, I guess I’ll throw it over to Juan Manuel to say a few words.

FIRST QUESTION

HELMON BIESANJOLE (ph), MAXBOXING.COM (ph): (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE).

JOHN MANUEL MARQUEZ: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE).

ERIC GOMEZ (ph): Let me translate please. Hold on. OK. And the question was how distracting was it for you with the change of opponent for September 15. First you were supposed to fight Jorge Barrios and then they changed and now it’s Rocky Juarez.

The answer from Juan Manuel is it wasn’t too much of a problem, the change of opponent. I was training hard for Jorge Barrios. And I think they’ve got kind of the same style. I mean, they are tough. They go forward. And they did it with plenty of time, month and a half before the fight. So I got plenty of time to adjust some details for Rocky Juarez’s style.

HELMON BIESANJOLE (ph): (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE).

JUAN MANUEL MARQUEZ: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE).

ERIC GOMEZ (ph): The question was do you think the fight with Rocky Juarez is going to be easier than fighting Jorge Barrios?

And Juan Manuel’s answer is no, definitely not. I mean, I never think that way. I mean, I know Rocky Juarez is a tough fighter. He wants the title. He wants