Bernie Bahrmasel: မင်္ဂလာပါ,
and welcome to the International Media Conference Call for the Middleweight Championship of the World as boxing superstar Gennady “GGG”
Golovkin defends his WBA,
IBO and Interim WBC Title against number two ranked challenger Willie “
The Mongoose”
Monroe Jr.,
set for next Saturday night,
May 16th at The “
Fabulous”
Forum in Los Angeles,
and telecast live in the United States on HBO World Championship Boxing at 10 p.m. အရှေ့.
We are seeing an overwhelming amount of interest in this event, which also features the HBO debut of fast-rising star Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez defending his WBC junior flyweight title against number two ranked challenger, အက်ဒါ Sosa.
ဒီအပတ်, we will be distributing an extensive fight week media schedule of Los Angeles area events. For the media, if you have not yet done so, please apply for credentials at MagnaMedia.com.
Joining us first on this call from his training camp in Big Bear Lake, California will be Gennady, his world-renowned trainer, အာဗေလ Sanchez, and the managing director of K2 Promotions, တွမ် Loeffler. Later in the call, we will be joined by Willie Monroe Jr., from his training camp in Winter Haven, ဖလော်ရီဒါပြည်နယ်, and his promoter, the head of Banner Promotions, Artie Pelullo along with his trainer Tony Morgan.
It’s now my pleasure to turn the call over to Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions, who will introduce Gennady Golovkin and Abel Sanchez for their opening comments. Go ahead, တွမ်.
တွမ် Loeffler: ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါတယ်, Bernie. We’re excited at bringing Gennady back to the Los Angeles area. We’ve gotten a great response from the fans with the ticket sales. Gennady has a 19-fight knockout streak going right now, and provides a lot of excitement in the ring and there have been a lot of calls for him getting back into the ring. We saw the fight on Saturday night and people seem to be yearning for some excitement, and that’s what Gennady guarantees in the ring, and we have a great co-feature with “Chocolatito” Gonzales against Edgar Sosa. Chocolatito’s making his HBO debut, အဖြစ်ကိုကောင်းစွာ, and I know a lot of fans in the L.A. area are also excited to see Chocolatito in the ring.
And Willie Monroe is the number two-rated contender and poses a very unconventional style with his southpaw stance and his movement in the ring, so I think this’ll be a great contrast to styles.
ကနှင့်အတူ, I want to introduce Abel Sanchez from his Summit Training Camp in Big Bear Lake.
အာဗေလ Sanchez: hi. Good morning, ယောက်ျားတွေ. We’re looking forward to-what is it ten days from now eleven days from now, putting on another fantastic show. We’re fortunate to have a young man in Willie Monroe who I know is going to come to fight and provide us with that exciting fight that we haven’t had. ကောင်းစွာ, actually last week was not as exciting as this one’s going to be, so hopefully Willie’s in great shape. I know that Tony’s getting him ready, so we’re looking forward to this Saturday night.
တွမ် Loeffler: And then I also want to introduce the WBA, the WBC Interim Champion, IBO Middleweight Champion, 32-0 နှင့် 29 နောက်ကောက်, Gennady “GGG” Golovkin.
Gennady Golovkin: Good morning. A couple of weeks before the fight and I’m ready, ကျွန်တော်နေလို့ကောင်းပါတယ်. မြျှောလငျ့စှာ, Willie will be ready to fight because we’ll have a strong fight and a good performance for the fans. I promise a big drama show. I hope he is ready also. Thank you to my team, the fans and media for all their support and to HBO.
မေး. hi, ယောက်ျားတွေ. Thanks for taking the time to do the call. My question is for Gennady. Your May 16th fight comes at an interesting time, right on the heels of Mayweather/Pacquiao, a fight in which a lot of people-I dare say most people said it didn’t feature enough action for their liking. Did you watch the fight? နှင့်, what did you think of Mayweather/Pacquiao?
Gennady Golovkin: ဟုတ်ကဲ့. Everybody wanted the fight for the last five years. I think Floyd’s too smart. This is Floyd’s style; he doesn’t take too many shots. Floyd’s too smart, he’s a great boxer, he’s number one in the world.
မေး. And what about Pacquiao? What did you think of his performance?
Gennady Golovkin: Pacquiao, I think he loses control of the fight. He could not do anything against Floyd. Pacquiao is very good, but it was a very smart fight for Floyd.
မေး. Listen, I’m not looking past Willie Monroe, that wouldn’t be wise. I expect you’re too talented for him, သော်လည်း. ဒါကြောင့်, what about next fight, you against Floyd Mayweather at 154 ပေါင်? I believe you, ဖြစ်နိုင်စရာ, are the next logical opponent to test Floyd Mayweather.
Gennady Golovkin: ဟုတ်ပါတယ်, it is my dream fight. သိသိသာသာ, Floyd, he is a great champion, and a little bit different style. Floyd, he’s a smart guy. He does a lot of moving. For my style, a little bit different, I like drama show, I like real fight, like close fight. I want show, big show; big drama show!
မေး. And you would bring that big drama show if you were to get a fight with Floyd Mayweather?
Gennady Golovkin: လုံးဝ.
မေး. အလွန်ကောင်းမွန်သော. Great answer. အသိအမှတ်ပြုပါတယ်. Good luck.
မေး. Question is for Abel. အာဗေလ, how do you deal with all these questions about who is next? We just had one-who is next for Gennady when he is to fight on May 16, the guy who is probably one of the fastest guys you have ever fought. How do you deal with this? နှင့်, how do you keep GGG concentrated on the task on hand? Not to talk about Canelo, and not to talk about Floyd and everything else, May 16th is first.
အာဗေလ Sanchez: ကောင်းစွာ, fortunately we have a real professional in Gennady Golovkin in the gym, so the questions about anybody else are only on these types of calls. အားကစားရုံထဲမှာ, he’s solely focused on Willie Monroe. Willie Monroe’s going to be a tough challenge, and we’re not overlooking him by any means because if we take a stumble here, all those other names are mute.
ဒါကြောင့်, Golovkin is concentrating on Willie Monroe, unless of course they ask questions like this in a media call, but there’s no doubt in my mind that we’ll be ready for, စိတ်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာနှင့်ရုပ်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာ, for May 16th.
မေး. One more question, if I may. The combined records of the last five opponents for Gennady is 165 ကိုအနိုင်ပေး, သာ 15 ဆုံးရှုံးမှု. Where would you put Willie Monroe in-between those fighters? How would you rate him among the last five Gennady fought?
အာဗေလ Sanchez: I think as far as skills and as far as ability in the ring, he’s got to be in the top three, and maybe the top two. အတွေ့အကြုံ, maybe not quite as experienced as the other guys, but Willie has proven in bigger fights, the Boxcino Tournament for instance, that he can handle himself in the ring, so he’s up there, like I said, တစ်, နှစ်, or three. A very, အလွန်, very good fighter.
မေး: Good morning, gentlemen. I just have two quick questions. Gennady, we know your reputation and your resume and your desire to fight, but you continue to get criticism for not taking proper fights without people really putting the blame on people who have to agree to fight you. How does that make you feel when people say that about you?
Gennady Golovkin: ငါသည်အကြီးမြတ်ခံစားရ. ယခုတွင်ငါသည်အကောင်းခံစားမိ. This fight is really important for my career, and for everybody, for my people, for my team. Thank you very much for my people. It’s very important for me, this fight with Willie, right now my focus is on Willie Monroe because he’s a great champion, he’s a great challenger for me and he may be next champion. Every fight is important for me.
မေး. With fighting against Willie Monroe, he’s a southpaw, and we’ve seen a lot said that you wanted to face that type of opponent, တစ် southpaw သောသူသည်. What do you hope that this performance will show to people watching you about your style, and the way you fight?
Gennady Golovkin: I want to fight a southpaw because I want to show everybody that I can beat any style, ကိစ္စမရှိပါဘူး. Anybody, strong guy, tall guy, short guy, just anybody. I’m very anxious. This is a big test for me. I remember a lot of fighters, like Canelo, ချက်ပြုတ်, and a lot of great champions have have problems with southpaws. So why not test myself.
မေး. အာဗေလ, Gennady kind of answered the question I was about to ask, but what I guess from a trainer’s standpoint, what do you see Willie Monroe bringing to the table that Gennady hasn’t yet seen on his way up?
အာဗေလ Sanchez: A lot of movement and slickness and if Gennady fights a southpaw in the future were better prepared for the style.
Willie is a proven and good fighter in, like I said in the Boxcino Tournament, so it’s not like we’re fighting a guy that’s on-that has never been in a situation like this. The difference is he’s going to go in against Golovkin and Golovkin seems to bring these guys down to the level that they’re not much for him, but if Willie brings his A game, I think we’re looking at five or six tough rounds, and then the stretch will be who’s got more in the tank.
မေး. Gennady, I know you can’t force the other middleweights to get in the ring with you; all you can do is just entertain. Do you feel kind of obligated though to carry the middleweight division right now? Like, you’re the guy that everyone’s going to look to as the one middleweight that will fight everyone.
Gennady Golovkin: ဟုတ်ကဲ့. I want to fight to unify the titles. ကျွန်တော့်အတွက်, it’s very important who’s number one; who’s best in the world in the middleweight division.
မေး. ဟုတ်ကဲ့. This is a question for Tom. You said in your intro that you thought fans were yearning for some excitement after what had happened Saturday. As a promoter, is there any fear of a backlash in the business? And what I guess would serve as a follow-up as Gennady is poised to be maybe the next face of boxing, maybe he can capture some of the crossover fans. Will that be harder to do now?
တွမ် Loeffler: I don’t think there’ll be a backlash. I think it’ll make fans appreciate Gennady’s style more when they see what he actually brings into the ring with him. He always tries to-Abel trains him in a style to provide excitement, to provide value for the fans, and I think the fans will appreciate instead of having to buy this fight on pay-per-view, they’ll get to see it on HBO, and they’ll see an entertaining show with Chocolatito as the co-feature, with Gennady, and Willie Monroe Jr. အဓိကအအဖြစ်အပျက်. I think it’s a great matchup of styles, and I think it’ll be a challenge to see if Gennady keeps his knockout streak alive and that’s what fans have really come to appreciate.
They know every time they come to see Gennady fight live, every time he’s fought, whether it’s Danny Geale, or whether it’s Marco Antonio Rubio at the StubHub Center last year. ကျွန်တော်ဆိုလိုသည်မှာ, they’ve seen an exciting fight, and I think you’ll see the same type of fight, and interesting matchup coming this Saturday on May 16th at The Forum.
မေး. Alright. အာဗေလ, same question?
အာဗေလ Sanchez: I think that we owe it to the fans to provide entertainment. I’ve said from the beginning that I wanted Gennady to be the kind of guy that you look forward to leaving home/work early on Saturday night to be able to watch all the pre-stuff in the fight to see more about Gennady. I wanted him to be that kind of individual inside the ring, not so much outside the ring, but I think that we’re getting to that point now.
Willie presents the next test. မြျှောလငျ့စှာ, after Willie, if everything goes well on the 16th, and Willie cooperates, we can have a bigger name, but right now it’s Willie in front of us, and we’re going to put on that show, or Gennady’s going to put on that show to make sure that the fans go away with a smile on their face and hoping to find out when he fights again.
မေး. Andy Lee against Kid Chocolate turned into a draw. You’ve got Miguel Cotto, who’s just kind of out there looking for that big fight. Do you want to stay at middleweight because you’ve said that you would drop down, and obviously the big fight that I think if we could all snap our fingers and make it happen is you and Mayweather? Would you move down a little bit at a catch weight or will we see you moving up, ဖြစ်ကောင်းဖြစ်နိုင်, to go for the super middleweight title?
Gennady Golovkin: ဟုတ်ကဲ့. အခုချက်ချင်း, my focus is on 160. My goal is to hold all the belts. လုံးဝ, I hope for a big fight with Miguel because he has the WBC title, I have the WBC interim belt, and of course I want a unification fight with Andy Lee. I think he’s ready and, ဟုတ်ပါတယ်, my dream fight is against Floyd.
မေး. Good morning on the West Coast, လူတိုင်း. တွမ်, this question is for you, and it’s a bit of a follow-up about the promoter’s job in the wake of Mayweather vs. Pacquiao. With casual fans, ဖြစ်ကောင်းဖြစ်နိုင်, grumbling about the lack of action, do you think that was a net-win or a net-plus overall for the sport of boxing with the enormous attention on that fight? နှင့်, does that change your approach two weeks in the wake of this enormous media onslaught and attention to boxing?
တွမ် Loeffler: I think the exposure to boxing was a net-win for it. I think fans might have been disappointed that paid a lot of money to actually see it live, or maybe on the pay-per-view; that’s where you really saw the disappointment of the fans. ဒါပေမဲ့, ကျွန်တော်ထင်သည်, နောက်တဖန်အ, when you see somebody that’s exposed to the sport of boxing and then they follow-up two weeks later or even one week later. You’ve got Canelo coming up this weekend, also on HBO, and then two weeks later you have Gennady coming back to the ring, it just creates more of an appreciation for those fans that are exposed to the sport for having an exciting fight in the ring.
မေး. And on the follow-up, how do you exploit, for lack of a better word, that attention and make sure they’re still around two weeks later to see what we on the call all know would be a very different and highly entertaining contest?
တွမ် Loeffler: ကောင်းစွာ, we just try to put on the best shows. When Gennady fought last year at the StubHub, we had Nonito Donaire, and Nicholas Walters as the co-feature, and with this fight we have “Chocolatito” Gonzales against Edgar Sosa, also as a co-feature, so we just try to provide value for the fans. They’ve responded by buying tickets and Gennady had the biggest selling fight ever at the StubHub Center, and there have been many champions who have fought there before, and his ratings continue to reflect that.
So it’s just packaging value for the fans, and it’s just the more people that appreciate the sport of boxing that are exposed to it and then they all have a better sense of when you have an exciting fighter that gets into the ring, and at some point they’ll choose whether they buy a ticket or tune in to different styles.
And I think Gennady’s proven that he provides excitement and every time somebody tunes in or buys a ticket to his fight, they always come away with a sense of excitement, and he brings a lot of fans to the sport, new fans that have never actually been to a boxing match before that came to StubHub, or when he fought in New York in Madison Square Garden. They came specifically to see Gennady and that’s a breath of fresh air for the boxing fans.
မေး. okay. Quick question for you, အာဗေလ, ပဌမ. Gennady has one of the best knockout percentage ratios in the boxing game right now. My question for you is sometimes he doesn’t get credit for his excellent footwork. Is there anything else, specifically, that you’ve found, or that you’ve kind of sharpened in fight camp with him these last few weeks prior to the fight with Willie Monroe?
အာဗေလ Sanchez: ကောင်းစွာ, every training camp that we go into we set aside a couple things that we’re going to concentrate on for the particular fight we have coming up. For Willie, we have a couple things that we’re working on to combat some of his, not only movement, but also the way he tries to be slick.
ဒါကြောင့်, hopefully the reason for that is hopefully in ten, twelve fights, we covered a lot of the areas that need to be covered to improve his game. Gennady’s a student of the game. Gennady loves learning new things, Gennady’s always paying attention, so it’s easy to show him something and to ask for him to do something and he repeats it. Max and I, his brother Max and I will talk about what it is that we want him to do and then Gennady executes it the way we want it.
ကံကောင်းထောက်မစွာ, for this camp we had two very good sparring partners in Julius Jackson and Raymond Gatica that provided us that canvas for Gennady to practice some of the things that we’re trying to improve on for this fight.
မေး. Was anything different now fighting a southpaw that you felt like you had to kind of enhance or work on a little more?
အာဗေလ Sanchez: Oh, absolutely. Willie Monroe’s not a standard southpaw. He’s very slick. He has very good wheels, so it’s going to be a process of trying to cut him off and practicing that in the gym to be able to cut him off and react to the situations, so he’s done it very well. He’s adapted very well to what we wanted for this particular fight, in addition to the things that we were doing in the past. So we’re looking forward to a great night.
မေး. okay. My question to you is, is it a little frustrating for you sometimes, I know you fight four times a year, more or less, give or take, you try to stay active. Is it frustrating for you sometimes when you start to see some of these guys like Miguel Cotto, he’s able-and you want to try to get to fight some of these really good guys, and sometimes it’s difficult for you? How do you stay focused knowing that you want to fight some of these really great champions, and it’s a little difficult for you?
I know that you say sometimes you’re into the Mexican fighters, and so I’m assuming that you want to emulate their greatness.
Gennady Golovkin: I kind of just see my situation now as just I’m ready. You know you’re right, absolutely, that’s not my focus. My focus is on who is number one in the middleweight division. It doesn’t matter how many fights per year, ငါးခု, ခြောက်ခု, I remember, like Chavez Sr., a lot of great champions, every second month he had a big fight. ကျွန်တော့်အတွက်, right now I’m ready for big fight, ကျွန်တော်အဆင်သင့်ဖြစ်ပြီ. I know I have just maybe couple years, maybe three years, maybe four years, I’m ready for six fights per year. I’m ready for anybody.
မေး. Is Chavez your favorite Mexican fighter?
Gennady Golovkin: ဟုတ်ကဲ့. ချားဗေ့စ်, sr. ဖြစ်. I love great champions from Mexico. I like Chavez Sr.’s style, like moving, and the strategy, I like this. I like the style because he will fight anybody and anytime. It may only be five, ခြောက်ခု, seven times per year. Same for me, ကျွန်တော်အဆင်သင့်ဖြစ်ပြီ.
မေး. ဒါကြောင့်, is that why you try to fight as often as you do?
Gennady Golovkin: လုံးဝ, ဟုတ်ကဲ့.
Bernie Bahrmasel: We’re going to wrap up Gennady Golovkin’s side. တွမ်, if you want to make some closing comments, and tell the media where their readers can get tickets?
တွမ် Loeffler: လုံးဝ. Again we’re all excited about Gennady coming back to Southern California May 16th against Willie Monroe Jr. It’ll be at The “Fabulous” ဖိုရမ်. It’s a great building that’s event better since it was renovated. It has such a great history of legendary fights being held there and now with this fight card coming to the L.A. ဧရိယာ, I think we’ll see a great turnout. We priced the tickets for the fans starting at the $30 and they are available at TheForum.com, and also at TicketMaster.com. Gennady’s last fight in LA sold out, so we advise the fans to buy their tickets early so they don’t run into the same problem last time when there was no tickets available.
Bernie Bahrmasel: အာဗေလ, do you want to give the media some closing comments before we get back to training?
အာဗေလ Sanchez: လုံးဝ. I’d like to thank them for their support and their calls and their questions. Make sure that you tune in and see another great fight from Gennady on his way to superstardom.
Bernie Bahrmasel: Thanks very much, အာဗေလ. Gennady, any more comments before you go back to training today?
Gennady Golovkin: ကျေးဇူးအများကြီးတင်ပါတယ်, လူတိုင်း. Thank you very much for support. Thank you very much for attention. It is really important for my team, for my career, and I promise great show, great events, just welcome to my Big Drama Show. ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည်.
Bernie Bahrmasel: Thanks very much, Gennady. Thanks very much, အာဗေလ. At this time for the media, it is my pleasure to introduce Artie Pelullo from Banner Promotions, who will introduce Team Monroe. Go ahead, Artie.
arti Pelullo: hi, ယောက်ျားတွေ. မင်္ဂလာပါ. Good morning to everybody. I guess the opening statement that I would like to make is I would like to thank Gennady Golovkin and Tom Loeffler for giving Willie Monroe this opportunity. ငါတို့ရှိသမျှသည်သိသည့်အတိုင်း, Willie is number two in the world, and the reason why we’re here is because of how well he did in 2014 by winning four fights in a row, including the tournament that ESPN had the ability and the foresight to put on called Boxcino. And then Willie came back and then won a unanimous decision after winning the tournament against Bryan Vera, which now has put him in the status to challenge the best middleweight in the world, and it’s going to be a very interesting fight.
It’s a fight that we believe we can win. Most people don’t think Willie can win the fight, but we do; that’s why we took it. And it’s going to be a terrific fight, and I think Gennady is going to be in for a very difficult fight with a very good fighter who can do things that nobody who’s fought Gennady has done before.
ဒါကြောင့်, I just want to say thank you to Gennady because it’s a voluntary fight, and he said he wanted to fight a tough guy who is a southpaw and this is the best southpaw out there. And Tom Loeffler’s a very good guy, a friend of ours and mine, not ours, mine, and has been able to make this deal rather quickly.
I want to thank HBO for also for putting the fight on because Peter Nelson who buys the fight for HBO realized that this is going to be a very compelling match, and back then to my opening statement. I want to thank everybody. Bernie, you’re doing a good job, and then now what Bernie. ကျွန်တော် .... လို့ထင်ပါတယ်, where’s this-is Willie on the line?
ဝီလီမွန်ရိုး Jr က.: ဟုတ်ကဲ့, ကျွန်တော်ဒီမှာပါ.
Artie Pellulo: Go ahead, Willie.
ဝီလီမွန်ရိုးဂျူနီယာ: I’m just grateful. I’m grateful for the opportunity. Thanks to Banner Promotions for putting me in the position to fight for the middleweight world championship against the greatest middleweight in the world at this time, and I’m blessed. ဒါကြောင့်, thanks to Banner Promotions, and ESPN Boxcino and HBO. ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည်.
Artie Pellulo: British ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်ဟောင်း Tony, would you like to say a few words?
Tony Morgan: ဟုတ်ကဲ့. How you all doing? I just want to say we’re glad to have the opportunity. Thanks to Tom Loeffler, Banner ပရိုမိုးရှင်း, HBO for giving us this opportunity to do what we do. ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည်.
မေး. hi, Willie. In your opening remarks, you referred to Gennady Golovkin, saying you’d be grateful to fight for the middleweight championship against the fighter known as the greatest middleweight of his time. I just want to know if you believe that Gennady is the best middleweight out there today.
ဝီလီမွန်ရိုးဂျူနီယာ: ကျွန်တော်ဆိုလိုသည်မှာ, what he’s done is he’s proven himself. And he’s widely known as the best middleweight out there, so you can’t argue with it, and obviously, I’m up there around two or number three, so that’s why I’m thankful for this fight. ဒါကြောင့်, I can’t chop the man down. I won’t sit up here and chop him down because once I win, then I’ll be chopping myself.
မေး. မှန်သော. okay. Do you believe there’s any fight that you’ve had, leading into this, that can prepare you? ကျွန်တော်ဆိုလိုသည်မှာ, သိသိသာသာ, Gennady’s better than everyone you’ve fought, but is there any particular style that you’ve faced that prepares you for what to expect next Saturday?
ဝီလီမွန်ရိုးဂျူနီယာ: I think my whole career from the amateurs all the way up to now has prepared me for this opportunity. I mean I had 142 အပျော်တမ်းရန်ဖြစ်, I’m a three time national champion.
I fought in Boxcino-I mean, Gennady is a little bit of a mixture of everyone I fought in Boxcino all the way up to Bryan Vera. So I think this is the pinnacle, and it’s my job to go in and do what I do best.
မေး. hi, ယောက်ျားတွေ. Thanks for taking the time to do the call. Appreciate it. The question is for trainer Tony Morgan. British ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်ဟောင်း Tony, you were in the news recently, a slight misstep it looks like. I’m not sure the situation and specifics, but I’m wondering has there been any interruption in training, and has that affected things at all, and how’s the relationship with you guys? နှင့်, how’s training going?
Tony Morgan: Flawless. We don’t have any issues. Everything is in the hands of my attorneys with my situation. The situation here is just training camp and that’s-we’re going to go through and do what we do, and put the pieces of the puzzle together, and solve the puzzle that nobody seems to be able to do.
Q.: hi, British ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်ဟောင်း Tony. It’s also the question for the trainer. We all think that this fight will be about speed versus power, and power on the side of Gennady, သိသိသာသာ, and the speed, which is supposed to prevent him to knockout his punches will supposed to be the number one most important thing for your fighter, for Willie. How do you see the fight? Are we wrong? Are we right? Give us a little bit, a glimpse of what we can expect from Willie in this fight.
Tony Morgan: I think the fight will truly be won by ring intelligence. I think what we bring to the table is something Gennady’s never seen and realistically can’t prepare for. ကျွန်တော်ဆိုလိုသည်မှာ, there’s really only one Willie Monroe. There’s two guys, maybe three that mimic his style that is very fast, very elusive.
Willie had a lot of knockouts in the amateurs, not saying Willie always goes in there to be a big puncher, but I think people are going to be surprised as they were with Bryan Vera. I think it’s going to be a big surprise for a lot of people, not for us, but for everybody else.
Q.: And one more question, this time for Willie. All those talks, all those bets around Las Vegas and all over the world from 60:1 သို့ 80:1 for Golovkin is just bulletin board material for you? Do you need extra motivation? Do you use this as extra motivation or are you just pushing this all information about you being basically-you basically lost already before you went into the ring? You just don’t pay attention to it?
ဝီလီမွန်ရိုး Jr က.: ကျွန်တော်ဆိုလိုသည်မှာ, after this fight is over, and I’m the new WBA champion, I will tell you guys a little story, and give you guys a little insight on my personal life, but I say that to say this. I’ve been the underdog since I was conceived in my mother’s womb, and I mean that literally; that’s not a figure of speech. I mean that literally.
ဒါကြောင့်, being an underdog is what I relish because those are the moments where I rise to the occasion and do-sometimes I surprise myself with how good I do, so I’m in my element. If I was the favorite, then I’d be a little worried, but being the underdog is what I actually relish because it motivates me to do what I need to do.
Everybody’s different. Some people need to be encouraged and told that they’re the best, အကောင်းဆုံးအဖြစ်, and some people need to be told that you can’t do it, so they can go out there and prove that they can. And I’m one of those people that’s always looking to prove people wrong.
မေး. Alright. ဒါကြောင့်, of course this is the biggest fight of your career and being the fact that boxing has probably been in the best shape that it’s been in quite a while, how do you feel about being part of boxing’s future, going forward?
ဝီလီမွန်ရိုး Jr က.: It’s a blessing. This is something that we’ve said since I turned pro. My trainer’s always said I will resurrect boxing; I will bring back the true essence of boxing and being articulate, inside as well as outside of the ring.
Well now, I think the timing is perfect. ကျွန်တော်ဆိုလိုသည်မှာ, it’s a blessing for me. ငါမင်္ဂလာပေါ့, and I’m elated to have this opportunity and this is just the beginning.
တစ်နေ့တာအဆုံးတွင်, it’s all about what I do. ကျွန်တော်ဆိုလိုသည်မှာ, it doesn’t matter the pedigree or where you come from or what the name is, it’s all about how you apply yourself and what you do in the ring and what you do in training camp leading up to the fight. ဒါကြောင့်, I really try not to live off what my dad and my uncle did. I’m creating my own legacy, and my own right, and as of right now, I’ve made it further than both of them already.
ဒါကြောင့်, it’s really nothing for me to do me and be me.
မေး. Alright. Thanks for taking my call. This question is for Willie. From looking at you, you are a boxer, a very slick guy, and a lot of technical skill. Who did you look up to? Who do you pattern your style after, in terms of as a fighter?
ဝီလီမွန်ရိုး Jr က.: My two favorite fighters, premier fighters are the champions, ရွိုင်းဂျုံးစ်, ဂျူနီယာ, and Sugar Ray Leonard. Anybody who was fast and very elusive and could do things physically that other fighters just can’t pull off, and do it in such a pretty fashion. Those are the guys that I look up to.
’90-91 “’90-91” Camacho Sr., Pernell Whitaker, all of those guys that were special, physically and mentally special. So those are the guys that I like to watch all the time and emulate.
မေး. ကျေးဇူးအများကြီးတင်ပါတယ်, and hi, လူတိုင်း. Willie, it was right before you were going into training camp, you were on with myself and Gerry Cooney. You said you were very confident about this fight. How did training camp go and how do you feel?
ဝီလီမွန်ရိုး Jr က: Training camp’s good. Training camp’s great. I’m more confident now that we’re in tiptop shape, but I mean everything is good. Everything is good. This is the fight I’ve wanted. This is the fight I said I wanted right after Boxcino.
A lot of people are insinuating that oh, you must be getting paid a lot of money. ကျွန်တော်ဆိုလိုသည်မှာ, this is the fight I asked for. When all the blogs and different interviews, they asked me what middleweight would you like to fight? I said Gennady Golovkin. ကျွန်တော်ဆိုလိုသည်မှာ, he’s the best. ဒါကြောင့်, you either go hard or go home.
ဒါကြောင့်, ကျွန်တော်ဆိုလိုသည်မှာ, everything’s good. Camp is great. I’m having fun. ကျွန်တော်ဆိုလိုသည်မှာ, just ask yourself who is my trainer, then you know how good training camp is going. I got the best trainer in the world.
မေး. okay, and let’s see, let’s go back to upsets, Leon Spinks over Muhammad Ali, Buster Douglas over Mike Tyson. This is really going to be looked at because GGG is certainly in the top two or three pound for pound in the world. If you win this fight, it’s going to be one of the biggest upsets over the last 30 years or so. How do you look at it?
ဝီလီမွန်ရိုး Jr က.: I look at it the same way, and you have to. ကျွန်တော်ဆိုလိုသည်မှာ, look what he’s accomplished as a fighter; 19 straight knockouts. He made his American debut in 2012, and he’s knocked out everybody thus far. And I mean like why wouldn’t you want to take that cloak of invincibility from somebody? နှင့်, ကျွန်တော်ဆိုလိုသည်မှာ, I’m the one that can do it.
ဒါပေမဲ့, ကျွန်တော်ဆိုလိုသည်မှာ, once the bell rings, and on May 16th nobody can get in there and fight for him, nobody can get in there and fight for me, it’s all about what we apply and what we adjust to that night and may the best man win.
မေး. You got it. Final question. Were you disappointed in the big fight the other night, Mayweather နှင့် Pacquiao?
ဝီလီမွန်ရိုး Jr က.: Not really because I knew it was going to be like that. It’s one of those stylistically matchups where you just kind of know what’s going to happen, and I’m glad it’s done and over with, so people can stop talking.
မေး. ကျေးဇူးအများကြီးတင်ပါတယ်. This is a question for Tony. British ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်ဟောင်း Tony, I’m not going to ask you to give away any of your training secrets before the fight, but you did mention-there was a mention in the lead up that you’re going to be bringing something different to the fight. Let me put it in these terms. In watching Golovkin’s previous opponents, did you identify any mistakes that you think Willie can correct in this fight?
Tony Morgan: I think that Golovkin makes a lot of mistakes. I think he’s beatable. I think any guy’s beatable if you bring the right plan to the table, but yeah, we’re going to capitalize on his mistakes and I don’t want to say we’re going to expose him because he is a great fighter, but we’re going to expose Willie. We’re going to expose what Willie really is, and what he’s really capable of doing.
မေး. And Tony, on your follow-up to the question, and that’s a great answer. The question was actually aimed at Golovkin’s opponents and their mistakes that you might be able now to avoid? ဒါကြောင့်, have you looked and seen that the Geale’s and the Murray’s and the Macklin’s of the world, did they do anything that you think you and Willie can avoid?
Tony Morgan: One hundred percent, all of them are pretty much all flat-footed and all of them stand in front of Golovkin. Sooner or later, he gets people to stand in front of him. I don’t think he’s going to be able to capitalize on anything that he’s used to doing because he’s never fought anybody the caliber of Willie Monroe.
I’m not saying that we beat everybody who is out there. We don’t have a name like he does, but the style that Willie presents is a style that’s imitated by no one, အမှန်.
Bernie Bahrmasel: Artie, we’re going to go ahead and wrap up the call if you want to make your closing comments and have Tony and Willie join you, that would be fantastic.
arti Pelullo: သေချာတာပေါ့. Listen, နောက်ထပ်တစ်ခါ, I want to thank everybody for giving Willie the opportunity. I think Tony and Willie said it right, and we all know that it’s going to be a great fight. We’re going to win the fight, and that’s how much confidence we have in Willie’s ability. But if it wasn’t for Tom Loeffler and Gennady Golovkin and HBO giving Willie this opportunity, we wouldn’t be here.
ဒါကြောင့်, I want to say thank you to everybody. We’re going to be out there off all week, so there’s a lot going on. Willie will be available to do interviews one on one, there’ll be an open workout, and just want to thank everybody for having us and it’s going to be a great show. It’s going to be a very good fight. It’s going to be much more than people realize what Willie can do, and it’s going to be a great show, and I think that Gennady Golovkin knows that, and I think he’s taking it very seriously.
ဒါကြောင့်, နောက်ထပ်တစ်ခါ, ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည်, လူတိုင်း, and I’ll turn it over to Willie and then Tony. Go ahead, Willie.
ဝီလီမွန်ရိုး Jr က.: I’m just thankful for this opportunity and like Artie eluded to, you have to thank GGG and his camp for taking this fight and for giving Willie an opportunity, myself, ဝီလီမွန်ရိုး, an opportunity to tango with the best, and I’m happy, so thanks Tom Loeffler, thanks team GGG. And an even bigger thanks to my team for believing in me and putting in the work the last seven weeks. May 16th is show time.
Bernie Bahrmasel: Go ahead, British ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်ဟောင်း Tony.
Tony Morgan: I just want to say thanks for all the support, thanks for GGG’s team for allowing us to get this opportunity, thanks for Artie, and Banner Promotions, and we’re going to go out and do what we do. We win, that’s what we do, so I just want to say thanks and thanks for the interview and appreciate the publicity.
Bernie Bahrmasel: Thanks very much, gentlemen. တနည်းကား, ဒီကြီးမားတဲ့ရန်ပွဲဖြစ်သွားသည်. This is the best middleweight in the world against a fighter who’s truly earned this opportunity to fight him. And we look forward to seeing all the media in Los Angeles next week, and we look forward to everybody watching the fight on May 16th on HBO. Thanks very much, လူတိုင်း.
GOLOVKIN VS. Monroe တိုက်ပွဲများ INFO:
Gennady Golovkin vs. Willie Monroe is a 12-round middleweight world championship bout presented by K2 Promotions and GGG Promotions in association with Banner Promotions and the Forum. အဆိုပါရန်ပွဲစနေနေ့ရာအရပျယူလိမ့်မည်, မေ 16 Inglewood ရှိ Forum မှာ, ကဲ့သို့. မှာပွင့်လင်းတံခါးပေါက်အရေအတွက်, 4:30 p.m. PT and the first bout starts at 4:45 p.m. PT ။, ကို HBO ကမ္ဘာ့ဖလားချန်ပီယံရှစ်လက်ဝှေ့ရုပ်သံလိုင်းကိုမှာကစတင်ခဲ့သည် 10:00 p.m. ET / PT.
Golovkin, 32-0 (29KO ရဲ့) မိမိအကမ္ဘာ့ဖလားလက်ဝှေ့ Association ကခုခံကြလိမ့်မည်, အင်တာနေရှင်နယ်လက်ဝှေ့အဖွဲ့နှင့် “ကြားဖြတ်အစိုးရ” ဆန့်ကျင်ကမ္ဘာ့ဖလားလက်ဝှေ့ကောင်စီတွင် Middleweight ကမ္ဘာ့ဖလားခေါင်းစဉ်များ #2 သတ်မှတ်ခဲ့စိန်ခေါ်မွန်ရိုး,
19-1-0 (6KO ရဲ့).
Co-featured on the telecast is 12-round junior flyweight matchup between World Boxing Council Champion ROMAN “Chocolatito” Gonzalez, 42-0 (36KO ရဲ့) နှင့် #2 သတ်မှတ်ခဲ့စိန်ခေါ်နှင့်ယခင်ကမ္ဘာ့ချန်ပီယံ Edgar SOSA, 51-8-0 (30KO ရဲ့).
Advance tickets, မှာဈေးနှုန်း $300, $200, $100, $60 နှင့် $30, Ticketmaster မှတဆင့် On-ရောင်းချခြင်းယခု (Ticketmaster.com, 1-800-745-3000) နှင့်ဖိုရမ်၏ box Office ရဲ့.
GOLOVKIN vs. Monroe Banner ပရိုမိုးရှင်းနှင့်ဖိုရမ်နှင့်ပေါင်းသင်းခြင်းအတွက် K2 ပရိုမိုးရှင်းနှင့် GGG ပရိုမိုးရှင်းအားဖြင့်တင်ပြထားပါသည်.
အဆိုပါရုပ်သံလိုင်းကိုအပေါ် co-featured ကမ္ဘာ့ကျန်းမာရေးအဖွဲ့လက်ဝှေ့ချန်ပီယံကောင်စီမှ Roman အကြားတစ်ဦးထူးချွန်ပြောင်မြောက်ဂျူနီယာ Flyweight matchup ဖြစ်ပါသည် “Chocolatito” Gonzalez နှင့် #2 သတ်မှတ်ခဲ့စိန်ခေါ်နှင့်ယခင်ကမ္ဘာ့ချန်ပီယံ Edgar SOSA.
Gonzalez vs. SOSA Zanfer ပရိုမိုးရှင်းတွေနဲ့ပေါင်းသင်းအတွက် K2 ပရိုမိုးရှင်းနှင့် Teiken ပရိုမိုးရှင်းအားဖြင့်တင်ပြထားပါသည်.
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