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Tue, 02 Dec 2008
12/1/08,Los Angeles,Calif. -- Four-time world champion Manny Pacquiao,General Santos,Philippines takes a look at his custom Team Pacquiao bus which is heading to Las Vegas for his upcoming world welterweight rumble 'Dream Match' against the 'Golden Boy' Oscar De La Hoya,East Los Angeles on Saturday,December 6 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas,Nevada. Golden Boy and Top Rank present De La Hoya vs. Pacquiao which will available on HBO Pay Per View. --- Photo Credit : Chris Farina - Top Rank copyright 2008.
"HEADING TO LAS VEGAS"
December 2, 2008
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Moguls Schaefer, Arum Put Sunny Side Up In Rainy, Cloudy Weather!
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Michael Marley
12/2/2008
(Editor's Note: Give the promoters credit for whistling while they work. While they were spinning on their call, the market took another beating, with the Dow falling 679.95 points for a 7.70 percentage loss. When it rains, it pours.)
Co-promoters Bob Arum and Richard Schaefer visited both the sunny and rainy sides of the boxing street in their international media conference call Monday. The Top Rank top honcho and the head man at Golden Boy Promotions were optimistic about the Manny Pacquiao-Oscar De La Hoya being dramatic in the ring and doing respectable numbers in the PPV TV market.
At the same time, both businessmen said that boxing will have to weather some rough water moving forward economically.
Arum, Hall Of Fame promoter with four decades of big bouts under his belt, injected some humor into the call by asking for “prayers” for a PPV buy rate anywhere close to the record 2.4 million ($134 million gross) achieved by Oscar and Floyd Mayweather in 2007.
“You don’t know,” Arum said. “It’s like an election in that you don’t know until the ballots are counted. If you go by a church and throw in a few Ave Marias, we invite all your prayers.”
It's not every Fight Week you have a Jewish fight promoter asking for Catholic prayers.
Arum said he thinks the bad blood between Oscar and Manny and Oscar and Pacman trainer Freddie Roach may lead to a compelling bout.
“I think it can become a true classic like Ali-Frazier III, like Leonard-Hagler and like Hagler-Hearns,” Arum said. “I think it can be a fight that will go down in history like that.”
Schaefer said the aggressive styles will all but guarantee more action than Oscar and Mayweather produced.
“It’s not Dancing With the Stars this time,” Schaefer said. “It’s going to be a fight, an exciting fight.”
In response to a question about an amateur turning pro and why he’s not been signed, Schaefer said young boxers must be realistic.
“Some of these fighters think we are living back in 2007,” Schaefer said. “They think they can get sign on bonuses and big purses right away. That is not a reality any more.”
The Golden shotcaller also said fight sponsors and their rebates will pump up the oscar-Manny PPV market.
“That is something that can give us a big leg up on the Mayweather fight. We did not have sponsors doing that back in 2007.”
Schaefer did not bother to add what everyone knows.
In the fiscal sunshine of May, 2007, sponsors did not need to give anything back to the consumer.
Two more Boxing matches added to Oscar De La Hoya vs Manny Pacquiao
By Media Report on Doghouse Boxing
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NABO junior welterweight champion and Top-Five contender “Vicious” VICTOR ORTIZ defends his title against JEFFREY RESTO and WBO junior featherweight champion JUAN MANUEL “Juanma” LOPEZ defends his crownagainst Top-10 contender and Argentinian National super bantamweight champion SERGIO “Rocky” MEDINA. Combined, these four warriors have a sterling record of 100-4-1 (69 KOs ) – a winning percentage of 95% and a victory by knockout ratio of 69%.
Ortiz ( 22-1-1 , 17 KOs ), from Oxnard , Calif. , a former amateur standout, is currently riding a two-year, 16-bout unbeaten streak, including 12 knockout victories. He captured the vacant NABO title in his last fight, a fifth-round stoppage of Roberto Arrieta in September. Recent knockout victories of former world champion Carlos Maussa and contender Emmanuel Clottey have raised his world rating to a career-high, No, 5 in both the WBO and the WBA. Resto (22-2, 13 KOs ) is enjoying a four-year winning streak. This year, the Bronx native of both Mexican and Puerto Rican descent scored decision wins over Humberto Tapia and Hector Altorre, who had a combined record of 27-8-1 when he fought them. Resto is currently rated No. 7 by the NABO.
Lopez (23-0, 21 KOs ), from Caguas , Puerto Rico , will be making his second world title defense on December 6. The 2004 Puerto Rican Olympian has not had an opponent go the distance with him in over two years. He captured the world title in June, knocking out defending champion Daniel Ponce De Leon in the first round. He retained the title in his first defense in October against Cesar Figueroa, again by first-round knockout. Medina (33-1, 18 KOs), from Salta, Argentina, enters the fight riding a five-bout winning streak, while collecting the WBO-Inter-Continental, the Argentina National and the WBA Latin American junior featherweight titles en route to a top-10 world rating.
Promoted by Golden Boy Promotions and Top Rank, Inc., presented by Tequila Cazadores and sponsored by Cerveza Tecate, DeWalt Tools, Full Throttle Energy Drink and Southwest Airlines. De La Hoya vs. Pacquiao, a 12-round welterweight battle, will take place Saturday, Dec. 6 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nev. The fight will be produced and distributed live by HBO Pay-Per View, beginning at 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT.
MGM Grand will host closed circuit viewing in conjunction with the upcoming “Dream Match” between the ‘Golden Boy’ Oscar De La Hoya and Manny ‘Pacman’ Pacquiao. Tickets for the closed circuit telecast are priced at $100 (preferred viewing) and $60, not including handling fees. All seats are general admission and are now on sale at the MGM Grand ticket office outlets at the Concierge desk and the KÀ Theatre box office. Tickets also will be available by visiting www.ticketmaster.com or by calling 702-474-4000. Ticket sales are limited to eight (8) per person. Additional MGM MIRAGE properties will host closed circuit viewing and tickets will go on sale at a later date
HBO’s all-access reality series “De La Hoya/Pacquiao 24/7” presents the series finale Thursday, Dec. 4 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT on HBO. All four episodes of “De La Hoya/Pacquiao 24/7” will be shown in a two-hour block consecutively on Friday, Dec. 5 at 9:00 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 6 at 10:00 a.m. on HBO. All times are ET/PT.
An additional pay-per-view bout and a complete undercard will be announced shortly.
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