Manny has a superb management team in Shelly Finkel, Nick Khan and Keith Davidson, as well as a Hall-of-Fame caliber trainer in Freddie Roach, |
Manny has fought Marco Antonio Barrera, Juan Manuel Marquez and Erik Morales in his last (four) fights. He's been in tough fight after tough fight, he's been taking on the best fighters of the era and I don't believe that a fighter needs to be a life-and-death fight every time. In this case Manny's coming off a real war with Morales and this is a tune-up fight for the next war with Morales. |
People don't want to come in. They feel they're unsafe in the shopping area. |
That is an outright lie. I will be more than happy to send you the contract to prove what he said is a lie. Frank Warren is an outright liar to say the contact was signed and there was a February date set. I can show you e-mails from my attorney and Frank Warren's attorney that said the contract would not be completed until this week, |
The fans have been cheated, particularly those who have supported Joe Calzaghe. There was no reason to take this fight. There was no upside to this fight. Calzaghe wanted a way out and he found it. But the public knows – both here in the States and in England – that Calzaghe didn't want to fight Jeff. Jeff was willing to go to Wales, to London, it didn't make a difference. Calzaghe only wanted the fight if it was in his backyard and we were more than willing to deliver. |
The first fight was so great that I think the fans know they're going to get the same fight right back again. Obviously, we hope with a different result. |
The marks aren't even close to what they should be. We are talking wind and rain for two days. |
The only meaningful fighter and champion in the super middleweight division is Jeff Lacy, but if Joe wanted to come to the States then we would speak to Frank Warren. |
The younger Castillo is the better-looking brother. |
They could win the state meet with just their throwers. They're that deep and talented in those four events. |
They tried to cheat. Diego made the weight legally. They didn't try to make the weight. And when they got to the scales they tried to cheat. |
They want their sanctioning fees, ... and Diego still wants to fight for a title. |
This fight makes Jeff the man. It really makes him the man. A lot of times when you beat the man, you don't become the man. I believe in this fight if we beat the man, we'll surpass him. |
This fight will breathe life back into the division. |
This is a fine family. They started here from scratch and built up to something. |