Sunday, August 31, 2008
SecondsOut Radio: Why De La Hoya-Pacquiao
On this week's edition of SecondsOut Radio, host Eddie Goldman discusses the real reasons behind the scheduled December 6 megafight between two of boxing's superstars, Oscar De La Hoya (39-5, 30 KOs), arguably the most popular boxer today, and Manny Pacquiao (47-3-2, 35 KOs), arguably the top pound-for-pound boxer today.
We also hear the official version of why this fight was made from statements by both De La Hoya and Pacquiao, as well as promoters Richard Schaefer, CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, and Bob Arum, chairman of Top Rank, on the kickoff media conference call this past week.
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Labels: Bob Arum, boxing, Eddie Goldman, Golden Boy Promotions, HBO, Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya, pay-per-view, Richard Schaefer, SecondsOut Radio, Top Rank
Sunday, March 30, 2008
SecondsOut Radio: Joseph Agbeko, Richard Schaefer
On this week's edition of SecondsOut Radio, host Eddie
Goldman speaks with Joseph Agbeko, the IBF bantamweight champion, and Richard Schaefer, the CEO of Golden Boy Promotions.
Joseph "King Kong" Agbeko (25-1, 22 KOs) was not widely known to the boxing world before his title fight Sept. 29, 2007, with then-IBF bantamweight champion Luis Perez. Most of his fights had been in Africa against opponents who were nowhere near being world-ranked. But that did not stop Agbeko from pulling the upset and dethroning the veteran Perez with a seventh-round TKO.
We discussed with Joseph Agbeko his background as a fighter and his plans for his next fight.
We also recently spoke with Richard Schaefer, the CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, at the kickoff news conference to announce the April 19 fight between two champions, light heavyweight king Bernard Hopkins and super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe. We spoke with him about this fight, and also about the plans of Golden Boy Promotions to enter the worlds of soccer (football) and mixed martial arts.
Also, we discuss the narrow view of much of the boxing media towards combat sports, their failure to understand other real combat sports such as mixed martial arts and wrestling, and their fawning over the staged pro "wrestling" spectacle, which has left so many of its participants prematurely dead.
It is free to listen to SecondsOut Radio, but you must register to gain access to it. Just click here, and listen, learn, and enjoy.
Labels: boxing, combat sports, Eddie Goldman, Golden Boy Promotions, Joseph Agbeko, mixed martial arts, Richard Schaefer, SecondsOut Radio, wrestling
