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Lisa Milner
Thank you operator. Thank you everybody for joining us. We’re going to get to the fighters for this huge, huge day of boxing next Saturday, July 18. I did want to first turn the call over to Stephen Espinoza, Executive Vice President and General Manager of SHOWTIME Sports who can get into the details of the fights and the first fighter we will have speaking immediately after Stephen is Chris Arreola. But Stephen please kick it off.
Stephen Espinoza
Thanks very much Lisa. As Lisa said, it is a huge weekend of boxing coming up on CBS and SHOWTIME. First on Friday night we’ve got a stellar SHOBox card featuring six undefeated boxers in action.
Then on Sunday we have a unique day/night double header, which as far as we have found is unprecedented. It’s CBS and SHOWTIME teaming up to televise a total of five fights, including two world title fights and a title eliminator, all coming from the Don Haskins Center in my hometown, Igbese, Texas.
So the SHOWTIME family is very happy about these events, as are all the rabid boxing fans that are in the El Paso area. Ni 1:00 p.m. PT/4:00 ET on CBS we have the always exciting heavyweight star Chris Arreola as well as the U.S. debut of super bantamweight world champion Carl Frampton.
Shortly you’ll hear from both Chris and Carl as well as Carl’s promoter Barry McGuigan. Interesting note about Barry McGuigan, obviously a Hall of Famer in his own right. Barry McGuigan appeared in one of the first televised bouts ever on SHOWTIME back in 1986 against Steve Cruz. Unfortunately he didn’t win that night, but he was one of the very first televised events on SHOWTIME. It’s a pleasure to have him back.
Then in the evening portion of the telecast on SHOWTIME, 7:00 p.m. PT/10:00 p.m. ET we have what is now a three fight card. Happy to announce that we’ve added a third fight to the card, the very exciting Amir Imam will be taking on Fernando Angulo in a super lightweight title eliminator.
Then we are also excited to have a super flyweight world championship McJoe Arroyo, the exciting Puerto Rican star, against Arthur Villanueva. Of course the headliner is a battle of two very exciting Mexican fighters Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. and Marcos Reyes.
So all in all, it could be a very historic day. It’s certainly unprecedented as far as we know in in this sport. Now I’m going to turn back over to Lisa.
L. Milner
Okay great. Thanks so much and we’re just going to go straight ahead and introduce Chris “Awọn alaburuku” Arreola. Chris could you please make an opening statement just about training camp and then we will open it up for questions?
Chris Arreoloa
Well I’m over here in Riverside training. I’ve been out here for the past seven weeks working hard, grinding every day, getting ready for this big fight in El Paso. You know El Paso is a big fight town and I’m looking forward to exhibiting my boxing skills and showing everybody that I’ve still got it and I’m still a force to be reckoned with and I’m going for the title run again.
Q
Just talk a little bit about this next fight and your opponent. What do you know about him? And what are the keys for you?
C. Arreola
I know that he’s a very slick fighter, a very slick boxer, a boxer that switches a lot, switches from left to righty, depending on the kind of options that you offer them. And the thing that I’m going to need to do is use a lot of my angles and give him a different view because he’s a very skilled fighter and I want to take him out as soon as I can because they don’t pay me overtime. And the El Paso fans deserve a good outing from me.
Q
I know you’ve had a couple of title shots in your career, Chris, ati ki o Mo mọ nibẹ n ti diẹ ninu awọn ọrọ ti o sunmọ miiran akọle shot ni September. Kini rẹ idojukọ ọtun bayi? Kini ni lakaye rẹ bi?
C. Arreola
Mi idojukọ ọtun bayi, o ni 18th. Ti o ni ọkan mi ati ki o nikan idojukọ nitori lai ti o win, there is no title shot. You’re only as good as your last win, ati awọn ti o ni ọna ti mo lero. Nítorí náà, gbogbo awọn ọrọ ti wa ni o kan Ọrọ. O ko ni ko tunmọ si ohunkohun titi emi o win yi ija. Nigbana ni a le gan soro nipa o. Nítorí akọkọ ohun akọkọ ni 18th. I want to make sure that I put on a good fight because Fred is a good fighter and when I beat him I want to beat him in a fashion that people want to see me fight Wilder, not just have it given to me.
I want to deserve that title fight. I want people to want to see that fight. So that’s my main goal of this fight, to showcase my skills and show everybody that I deserve another title shot.
Q
Chris is there an ideal weight for you to fight at and what do you plan to come in, tip the scales at on fight night?
C. Arreola
My main goal – first and foremost my main thing is being in boxing shape. My weight doesn’t reflect my training. The main thing is I want to be a good boxing weight and great boxing weight in order for me to go the full ten rounds, in order for me to throw 80 si 100 punches around. That is my main goal is to showcase my boxing skills.
As far as boxing weight, if I had an optimal weight, it would be in the mid-240s, bi 44, 45, at the lowest maybe 42, but for this fight I’m thinking I’m going to come in in the high 40s, — 47, 48. Sugbon akọkọ ohun ti o wa El Paso egeb ti wa ni lilọ lati ri kan ti o dara Boxing àdánù ati ki o kan nla Boxing ija lati ara mi.
Q
Bawo ni o ṣe lo rẹ iwọn anfani? Bawo ni o ṣe lo rẹ iwọn anfani lodi si ohun alatako, paapa lori yi ija bọ soke? Bawo ni yoo ti o lo anfani ti o ni?
C. Arreola
Daradara bi jina bi mi àdánù anfani, o ni diẹ ti o ti sọ ni lati fa rẹ ife. O ti sọ ni lati fa rẹ ìfẹ bi jina bi titari si i pada. Pushing him back is smart with the jab and making sure I keep him in his heels because I don’t want him being on his toes because he’s very good on his toes.
So the main thing I have to do is impose my will, moving my head, working behind the jab, and pushing it back to the ropes. Once I push his back to the ropes, it’s trying to work his body from the body to the head. We love working the body.
That’s what I’m going to plan to do, is make sure that he knows that he’s in a fight, make sure that he understands that every time I touch him I don’t touch him to touch him, I touch him to hurt him.
Q
What does it mean to fight on network television, which everybody gets?
C. Arreola
Honestly it’s a privilege and an honor to be fighting on national network TV where everyone gets it. It’s different to hear of regular person – a person that doesn’t even know boxing – know some boxers. Like I’ve been hit up by a guy like, “Hey do you know Keith Thurman?”
They never watched a boxing fight in their life. But the fact that now it’s on NBC, Sibiesi, and all the three networks, people are able to watch boxers and showcase their skills. That’s one thing that I’m so happy and honored to do is that it’s not just a casual boxing fans but it’s anyone. Anyone could watch me fight, and that’s pretty dope. That’s really an honor and just drives me to want to display my skills a lot more, mọ pe o wa n lilọ lati wa ni kan anfani jepe wiwo mi.
Q
Chris. Mo ti a ti o kan iyalẹnu ohun ti o ro ti Wilder ká iṣẹ lodi si Molina ati ki o wà ti o yà a pe Molina je anfani lati fun u ni wahala ti o ba ohun ti o ṣe si i ninu rẹ ija?
C. Arreola
Lati so ooto pẹlu nyin, nigbati mo wo pe ija Emi ko ro pe ti o ti lọ lati ṣiṣe meji, mẹta iyipo. Tikalararẹ Mo ro pe Wilder gbé e. Akọkọ Mo ro pe Wilder fe lati gba ara iyipo. I don’t think that Wilder was really trying to take him out until he actually pushed on the gas.
Sometimes trying to showcase you get caught and he got caught a couple times with some stupid shots that he should never have been caught with. That’s why I never want to go rounds. I don’t care who it is. I want to get him out of there as soon as I can because all it takes is one punch to get knocked out.
I honestly believe that Wilder was just showcasing. I believe that Wilder was just carrying him to fight. I take nothing out of that fight. I take no honor in me taking Molina out quicker than him.
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Does it encourage you if you were able to get the opportunity to fight him?
C. Arreola
It didn’t encourage me. It didn’t make me feel any better, any different. What I got to see more off of him is when he fought Stiverne. Now that fight was a good fight. That fight is a fight that I see a lot out of Wilder and a lot of mistakes, a lot of good and a lot of bad in Wilder.
As far as him fighting Molina, did it encourage me? Man, nitootọ, I don’t fear anybody. I love fighting. I want to fight him just because I want to fight him, especially now since he has a title. And do I believe I could fight him? Yes and I believe that he hasn’t been in the ring with someone like me, someone that really doesn’t give a crap.
Se o mo, I really don’t care about myself. I really care about winning the fight. I’m willing to put my life on the life because I want to win a fight. Now the time that I cried when my trainer stopped me, I didn’t cry because he said I quit or anything. I didn’t quit. I cried because of my pride. I’m a prideful man. I have too much fight for myself. And to quit, that’s horrible.
L. Milner
Mo dupe lowo yin lopolopo. If you give just one quick closing comment and then we’ll move on to Carl Frampton.
C. Arreola
Dara, well I’m really looking forward to July 18 to showcase my skills in front of the whole United States to watch showcase boxing. I’m happy that we’re up here and I can’t wait to showcase my skills in El Paso, Texas which I know has been hungry for big fights. See you on the 18th.
L. Milner
Perfect, e dupe. Okay now I am delighted to introduce Carl Frampton and his Hall of Famer manager Barry McGuigan. We also have Alejandro on the line. But before we have him make an opening statement I did want Carl and Barry to say a few words.
Carl Frampton
I’m just looking forward to the fight. I think it’s going to be a good fight. Kind of reiterating what Chris just said there now, it’s giving me a chance to showcase my talents on CBS, terrestrial TV in the U.S., also terrestrial television in the U.K. on ITV. So I’m really looking forward to a good fight.
Barry McGuigan
Just to reiterate that point, as a manager and a former world champion myself, my name was sort of written in stone 30 years ago because I appeared on terrestrial TV. It’s been that way for a long time, and I think what PBC is doing – o ni nla fun wa lati wa ni nkan ṣe pẹlu Go-si eniyan ni akoko ni Boxing.
Lati gba ori ilẹ tẹlifisiọnu egeb nife ninu Boxing, àjọsọpọ Boxing egeb, ko o kan ni awọn aficionados sugbon awon eniyan ti o wa ni lotitọ ti a àjọsọpọ anfani ni Boxing ṣugbọn awọn ti o yoo wo awọn ńlá njà. Mo ro pe o ni o kan ko nla fun Carl Frampton sugbon nla fun gbogbo awọn onija lori owo ati nla fun Boxing ni apapọ.
Ki a ba ti ohun iwuri lati wa ni nibi. A ba si tẹlẹ ninu El Paso. Carl is expecting a tough fight from Alejandro, and we’re very much looking forward to it.
L. Milner
Dara, wonderful. We actually also have Alejandro Gonzalez, Jr. on awọn ila. Alejandro could you make an opening comment just about how training camp’s going and preparing for Carl?
Alejandro Gonzalez
Daradara, we’re preparing 100% because we’re going to fight a great champion so we need to be 100% ready with the preparations.
Q
Your name is not relatively known to the casual American boxing fan and in this fight you’re going to get massive exposure to American boxing time basically. What does that mean to you?
C. Frampton
That means a lot, that’s something me and my time have discussed, I’m pretty well known in the UK and Ireland but in the United States, unless you’re a diehard boxing fan you won’t know who Carl Frampton is.
So this is giving me the chance for a lot of exposure on terrestrial television. O ni a nla ti yio se. Mo ro pe Boxing ti ni irú ti a ti wọbia. O ti a idaraya fun awọn ṣiṣẹ kilasi ati awọn ṣiṣẹ kilasi awon eniyan ti wa ko si sunmọ ni lati ri o nitori o ti n a ti pamọ kuro loju awọn ikanni satẹlaiti fun ki gun.
Nítorí yi ni nla fun mi, daradara ko nikan fun mi fun Boxing ati ki o tun fun wa lẹwa titun ipolowo egbe olóoru ni igbega lati ni ọkan ninu wọn awọn onija showcased lori mejeji ti Atlantic.
Q
Ohun ti o wà ni akọkọ idi ti o pinnu lati sí lori ọkọ pẹlu Al Haymon ati ki o ṣe kan irin ajo lori si awọn United States?
Carl Frampton
Daradara a sọrọ ti o wa pẹlu egbe ati awọn ti o je kan lẹwa rorun ipinnu lati so ooto. Mo ro awọn ifihan ti a le gba pẹlu Al Haymon jẹ Egba lowo ati ki o tobi.
Ani diẹ ki ju pé ó n ni a pupo ti awọn oke awọn onija ni ayika Super bantamweight pipin gbogbo wọnyi orukọ ti mo ti fẹ lati ja, se o mo, Leo Santa Cruz, Abneri Mares, Gary Russell awon too ti awọn onija ti o n ni pe Al Haymon idari.
So without linking up with him it would have been pretty hard to make them fights. So it was a pretty easy decision. We are very grateful for the opportunity here.
As I said before to the answer previously it’s giving me a chance for massive exposure here and that’s really the big thing, exposure both sides of the Atlantic.
B. McGuigan
If I could add to that, there isn’t any bigger than Al Haymon at the moment. If you want to get into the American market and the reality is Carl is a superstar in Britain and in Europe and in Ireland and the reality is when your career is dead and buried all they remember is the stuff you’ve done in the United States.
So it’s a very important decision for us to come over here and try and be impressive and trying to make a name for ourselves.
Q
How much of that went into your decision to come over here and expand the market and be able to touch on those big fights against Leo Santa Cruz, Gary Russell or even Abner Mares if he can upset Leo in August.
B. McGuigan
Here’s the thing, here’s the thing again there are at the last count 27 million people of Irish descent in America I think that’s on the East Coast actually. So we want to get into that market.
It’s a great market, we need to get as many people on our side as possible and we have great respect for Alejandro and his dad. He’s got a great Mexican boxing heritage and obviously that’s the fight that we’re looking at and concentrating on at the moment.
But it would be foolish certainly of me not to look ahead and plan ahead and think about what are the super fights out there for us and that is against Leo Santa Cruz and Abner Mares, Gary Russell and I believe Frampton can to go 130 as well and be successful there.
But one stage at a time and we’re not taking our eyes off the ball on the 18th. It’s a very tough fight for us, Alejandro is a great fighter.
C. Frampton
I just agree 100% on everything that Barry said. If you want to do anything in America at the minute the way boxing is going Al Haymon is the man to link up with and we’ve done that.
I’m very pleased with doing that. Me and the team are all very pleased and we think that things are just really going to kick off. But again it’s one fight at a time.
I’m not looking past Alejandro. I leave it to my manager Barry and the rest of the team to think ahead but for me I just think about the fighter in front of me and that’s Alejandro .
He’s the only guy I’ve been thinking about for the last 14 week training camp and that’s the way it will remain until the fight.
Q
I’m just wondering what your thoughts are on adopting fighting on the East Coast, beginning to draw in some of those new American Irish boxing fans who may not be familiar with you yet?
C. Frampton
That’s where we want to be, we want to be on the East Coast. We want to be fighting around the East Coast, Niu Yoki, Madison Square Ọgbà, Barclays ile-iṣẹ, those sort of places, Boston potentially as well.
I’m hoping that there is already talk about my next fight I’m not too sure where it will be but good chance my next fight could be in the UK and Ireland again somewhere.
Then we’d be looking to go to New York or the east coast. I think that’s where my American fan base will be, mainly on the East Coast.
I think they’ll appreciate the way I fight. It’s all well and good me winning fights but I think what the Americans and boxing fans want to see is exciting fighters and I think that I’ve got an exciting style to please them.
So East Coast is where we want to be. I think El Paso was the only matinee show that we could link up with British TV Time. So it’s setting pretty in the UK at the minute, it’s being shown at around 10:00 pm out of the UK.
That’s why we had to go to El Paso but, se o mo, I’m very happy for this chance to fight here but of course I want to fight on the East Coast.
B. McGuigan
Can I also add to that, what we see and Carl wants to do what GGG has done. We want to get the Mexicans fans on our site too and obviously the fight against Alejandro on the 18th of July is a fight that we, that Carl must win, he must win impressively. We hope that we will garner some support from the Mexican fans too and that they will appreciate Carl’s style.
Q
What’s it like working with Barry and what kind of things have you learned from him during your time together?
C. Frampton
Well it’s great. I’ve been with Barry since six years ago. Originally at the start I had done a lot of training with Barry and he’s the best for me and taking me through training sessions.
I lived in his house while I trained in England, the South of England. I have a very good relationship with Barry and the rest of his family. His son is now training me at the minute and he kind of took the reins.
Barry is in the gym most days. He comes and watches me spar and he’s been there and done it, he’s done it all and to be getting advice every day of someone who has done that it’s obviously great and very beneficial to me.
Mo wa 28 years old I’m not the youngest guy in the world but I still feel like I’m learning all the time. I still feel like I’m getting better and I just try and soak as much information up as I can.
Q
Barry can you bring to him I guess in terms of advice in the say of what to look for as he moves forward in his career?
B. McGuigan
I think Carl Frampton is one of the best Irish fighters that there’s ever been and that’s a bold statement and he’s 28 ọdun atijọ, he’s chronologically 28 but physiologically he’s only a young man because of the way he fights, the way his style is.
O si ko ni gba kan pupo ti ijiya ati awọn ti o le apoti lọ pada, lọ siwaju ati Mo ro pe o ti n ni a nla ara ti ija. Mo ro pe ni America ti wa ni lilọ lati nífẹẹ rẹ ati awọn 18th ti Keje ni ija ibi ti a ti ṣe wa àkọkọ sami ati ki o Mo gbagbo ti o ti n lilọ si jẹ ńlá kan sami.
A n reti kan alakikanju ija sugbon mo gbagbo wipe gan Carl ni mejeji awọn jíjẹènìyàn, awọn ara ija ati awọn Charisma lati ṣe awọn ti o ṣiṣẹ lori nibi o si, I believe we’re on the threshold of something very big.
Q
Barry does it bring back a lot of memories for you seeing Carl.
B. McGuigan
The next best thing to actually fighting yourself is being involved with young men and developing talent and as you come along through your career and I’m sure the same is with Alejandro ‘s dad.
Being involved with kids and developing them, especially if they are your own child and often Carl feels like he is part of the family. He’s been involved so long and he’s a really talented kid. He’s very dedicated and it’s great to see him make progress.
For me vicariously I love and appreciate all of the things that he’s doing and making the progress he’s making and turning into the fighter that I always believed he could.
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What do you see as being the potential for you fighting either or both Guillermo Rigondeaux and Scot Quigg?
C. Frampton
Wo, I would like to fight them all. I think the situation with Quigg is he’s outpricing himself on a fight. He thinks he’s worth more than what he is. I was always told by my mother growing up never to sell myself short so I’m not going to sell myself short to Scott Quigg or Eddie Hearn.
I think the Rigondeaux fight is a great possibility. There’s rumors that he may be linking up with Al Haymon and if he does link up with Al Haymon then of course the fight would be easier to make. I believe I could win.
O wo ni Rigondeaux ati ki o Mo patapata ẹwà ohun ti o ṣe, ati àwọn ija ara, ṣugbọn Mo ro pe mo ti wa ni nikan eniyan ni Super Bantamweight pipin ti o le lu u. Mo setan lati ya wipe ija nigbakugba ti o ba wa ni.
Q
Bawo ni gun ni o ri ara re eôsin ni ayika ni 122?
C. Frampton
Daradara ni mo le duro nibi bi gun bi o ti ṣee. Mo ro pe mo ti le jasi, ti o ba ti Mo fe lati wa ni, Mo ti le je kan ọmọ Super bantamweight. Mo ti ri o wipe mo ti n ṣiṣe awọn àdánù pipin kekere kan bit rọrun pẹlu kọọkan ibudó.
Sugbon Mo wa ńlá kan Super bantamweight. I think Alejandro is maybe a few inches taller than me. He’s about five foot seven area. I’m about five foot five.
Mo wa lagbara. Mo wa gan, very solid. I’m quite a super bantamweight. But if I wanted I could just stay here for the rest of my career. But I think it’s some sort of legacy and it’s important to move up the weight divisions. I think I would be very dangerous as well.
B. McGuigan
Very simple situation with Scott Quigg. Scott Quigg has got the regular title. Scott Quigg has never headlined to show, although he’s a champion and I really respect the guy. He thinks I don’t, but I do. I just want to set the record straight in America too. He’s a decent fighter, no question about it.
He never has fought the level of opposition Carl has fought. The real champion is Guillermo Rigondeaux. Scott Quigg doesn’t merit 50% of the purse. Carl has won all his title fights. He’s taken risks. He’s buying out arenas. He’s been a headline act; all of the things that Quigg has not done. Quigg ti ni awọn WBA deede akọle. The real champion is Guillermo Rigondeaux.
Nigbati Hearn si mu o lori ara lati lọ ki o si beere, o si lọ sile wa gbelehin ati ki o beere ti o ba ti wa ni ija le sanctioned bi a unification ija. O si ti a so fun ko nitori awọn ti gidi asiwaju ni Guillermo Rigondeaux.
Ki pẹlu ti o ni lokan, a ko fẹ awọn deede akọle. A iwo ko ba nife ninu awọn deede akọle. A nife iwo ninu ija, sugbon ko si ni pe akole.
A ti wa ni dajudaju nife ninu Guillermo Rigondeaux ká Super aye akọle. Ti o ni kan yatọ si itan. Sugbon ti o daju ni, if we’re going to Manchester, we’re putting Carl’s credibility on the line and we’re going into his home first.
When you come into this fight with a voluntary defense, the guy gets as much as the champion wants to pay him. Or even in the mandatory position, it’s still a 75/25% situation. So we said we’d star at 70/30 but the least we would take would be 60/40, and they wouldn’t play ball. It’s as simple as that.
So the fight doesn’t matter and therefore we now have a situation where we can fight a number of these great guys, provided Carl gets back and gets past Alejandro on the 18th of July.
Q
How much of an adjustment is it going to be for you not being in that arena full of the big supporting crowd for you?
C. Frampton
I think it will be absolutely fine. I’ve boxed all over the world as an amateur. I’ve boxed away from home a lot of the time. I’ve been in very, very hostile environments in Turkey. I remember Turkey being extremely hostile for some reason and I went out there and beat three Turks three years in a row.
Q
Have you noticed any difference around since that fight on ITV?
C. Frampton
I get recognized a lot, but obviously back home in Belfast it’s very good, and especially around a fight. It’s hard to kind of go anywhere without someone coming and asking for a photograph or even just to shake your hand, which I don’t mind at all. I enjoy it and I enjoy people’s company and I enjoy chatting to him.
In London since the last fight it has got a little bit better. Well better or worse; whatever you want to call it. People are approaching me a little bit more. But I can still go fairly unrecognizable in London.
It’s all about the change. We’re fighting here on CBS here. I’m fighting on ITV at prime time – a prime time slot. We don’t have any other big shows to go up against. The last time I fought it was pretty late on ITV much of the day and stuff was on at the same time.
So they took a lot of viewing figures we’re expecting to do about a million viewers here, and obviously when you do that, more people are going to recognize you in the street.
Q
Did you get any feedback from ITV?
C. Frampton
I think they were over the moon with it and that’s why this came back and they’re showing another. You know if they weren’t happy with it they wouldn’t have put me back on again. That’s the bottom line.
So ITV were very happy. They were very happy with their viewing figures and they want to continue a relationship with us and that continues with the fight on the 18th against Alejandro.
L. Milner
Dara, nla. We’re actually going to take one question for Alejandro and then we have to move on to Julio Cesar Chavez. So can we please have this question for Alejandro and then we will turn it over.
Q
Alejandro you’ve fought before at the Sun Bowl on the Julio Cesar Chavez undercard. Ti wa ni o nwa lati inu Carl Frampton yi ọna nibi ati mọnamọna aye?
A. Gonzalez
Bẹẹni, yi ti ni lilọ si jẹ mi keji akoko ija lori Chavez ká undercard, sugbon Mo wa gidigidi dun lati ja nla kan Onija. Ṣugbọn baba mi so fun mi, ti o ba ti o ba fẹ lati wa ni ti o dara ju ti o ba ni lati ja ti o dara ju. Ki o ni ohun ti Mo ro wipe Carl Frampton jẹ ọkan ninu awọn ti o dara ju ti awọn bantamweight champs.
Q
Ti wa ni o nwa siwaju si ija ni iwaju kan ti a ti tobi Mexico ni-American kuroo ni El Paso?
A. Gonzalez
Bẹẹni, dajudaju. Ni El Paso nibẹ ni kan pupo ti Mexico ni eniyan. Like I just said, Chavez is going to be in that fight and he’s a Mexican. So he has a lot of crowd. I have a lot of crowd and it’s going to be a great fight and a lot of people and a lot of Mexican and American people in the fight.
L. Milner
We do have Julio Cesar Chavez on the line so we’re going to jump over to the SHOWTIME
Julio Cesar Chavez
I’m very happy that we are close to the fight. I have five weeks with (Robert) and I prepared 100% for the fight. I feel ready to fight.
Q
July, you’re always an honest person. You’ve always been very sincere about everything. And my question to you is, whether the biggest enemy of your career has been Julio Cesar Chavez, ara?
J. Cesar Chavez
I haven’t been 100% all the time, but my career has had lots of accomplishments. I was the first Mexican to win the Middleweight World Champion. I’ve been a World Champion. I’ve defended my belt. In addition to that I’ve beaten really great fighters. And I have a record of 48 ati 2. Ati ki o ko ẹwà lati so pe mo ti ko parí a Pupo ati ki o ti ko ti pese gbogbo awọn akoko. Sugbon yi jẹ ipenija kan nla.
Q
Ṣe o lero o je awọn àkọsílẹ kan nla išẹ?
J. Cesar Chavez
O han ni mo ni lati win yi ija. Mo ni lati wa nla.
Mo si mu lori kan ipenija ti o wà alakikanju. Mo ti jà ẹnikan ti o je 175 poun. Mo ti jà ẹnikan lẹhin ọdun meji ti jije aláìṣiṣẹ.
Nibẹ wà kan pupo ti ohun ti o nlo ni mi pẹlu awọn ọmọ ofin isoro ti mo ti a ti lọ nipasẹ ni kanna wipe mo ti a gbiyanju lati gba setan fun ija kan. O je kan alakikanju ipenija.
Ani tilẹ ti o je kan ijatil fun mi ni mo lero bi mo ti wà a dara ju u Onija. Ṣugbọn o ti diẹ pese. Mo ro wipe awon li awọn okunfa. Mo gbero lati win yi tókàn ija.
L. Milner
Dara a si gangan ni Marcos Reyes lori ila ṣaaju ki o to dara wa tókàn ibeere Mo ti o kan fẹ lati jẹ ki i sọ ọrọ kan diẹ nipa ikẹkọ ibudó.
Marco Reyes
Well I’ve been Mexico City for six weeks right now in camp with Nacho Beristain, my trainer right now. A number of you have been excited for that fight July 18 which I’m going to face with Julio Chavez and I’m going to be in great shape for it.
Q
Nacho Beristain says that Julio changing trainers is not the issue, that it’s a personal and a mental issue and that’s the problem. Do you have a response?
J. Cesar Chavez
Robert Garcia is a great trainer. He has respect for a lot of people. He’s a respected trainer. I don’t understand what Nacho Beristain’s problem is.
He has in the past criticized me and he’s also criticized other people. In his career he goes around criticizing people. Ṣugbọn, the facts are different.
I’m is first Mexican middleweight champion. I’ve only had two defeats. One was number two pound fighter which is Martinez. And I knocked him down, almost knocked him out, almost finished the right.
My second was against a natural 175 pounder who was ranked number four in the world who’s a very top level fighter.
So on July 18 I plan to show Nacho Beristain and everybody else that I’m one of the greatest fighters.
Q
Julio have you ever thought about losing again since you lost again what would happen in your career with another defeat?
J. Cesar Chavez
I’m not planning on losing. I’m planning on winning. When I fight at my weight I can beat anybody. There’s nobody in boxing who can beat me when I fight at my weight.
I feel right now that I’m at the best. I feel this is the best part of my career. And on July 18 I’m going to win.
If I lost this fight then it would make me think about retiring because this is not the type of rival that should beat me. The type of rivals that I fought are much better and tougher than this rival.
Q
What big name are you thirsty for?
J. Cesar Chavez
Well firstly I respect my opponent a lot. All opponent are dangerous because Reyes, he’s a tough guy.
I have big plans for the division, I will fight anyone out there.
But now I focus on Reyes. After that it’s whatever opponent comes. I’m ready for whatever name
I fight for the people and if the people want a big name I will fight anyone
L. Milner
Dara. Julio could you just close out today as you wrap up training camp and head into fight week in El Paso?
J. Cesar Chavez
I feel ready to show the people a great fight. I’m ready to show the people my great fighting and I hope they enjoy the fights. Because two Mexican fighters in the ring every time makes a great fight.
I want to send a big hug to all of the people in El Paso. I hope that they come out and support both fighters. This is going to be a great fight between two Mexican fighters.
But obviously I intend on winning this fight. And most importantly I plan on giving the fans a great fight on July 18.
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