by Ryan Arguelles/ PNS
Filipino boxer and WBO Welterweight Champion Manny Pacquiao strikes a fight pose with a much taller and bigger former Welterweight Champion Joshua Clottey of Ghana during the New York City Madison Square Garden presscon for his March 13, 2010 welterweight fight at the Dallas Cowboys Staduim in Dallas, Texas. PINOY GONZALES/ PNS
Bob Arum, the 78 year old boss of Top Rank caused big laughter from press and mediamen present last week at the Madison Square Garden Theatre, New York City for the Lopez-Luevano fight press conference.
Arum introduced the representative of the New York Boxing Commission as Nevada Boxing Commission many times in his introduction at the podium until one of the media men present shouted" you are in New York Bob", and another reminded Arum, "the fight is in New York".
It was an honest mistake from the 78 year old icon of boxing. It caused some lighter moments for the boxing press, after that Arum was sharp with all his introduction.
WBA featherweight champion Yuriorkis Gamboa of Cuba was not present at the press conference. He flew later from Miami, Florida. He was expected to be on the scales for the weigh-in.
The challenger Rogers Mtagwa of Tanzania promised to give the same determined aggressive fighting on Saturday night to Yuriorkis Gamboa.
Mtagwa fought aggressively in his last fight against Juan Manuel Lopez last October 2009 but lost that fight though he wobbled Lopez in the 10th round. Mtagwa was on the verge of beating Lopez but couldn’t land one good clean punch in the 11th and 12th to have Lopez escaped with the victory.
In the main draw, Juan Manuel Lopez of Puerto Rico talked in Spanish with an interpreter said that "he prepared very well for this fight and he expects a tough 12 rounds of boxing".
Lopez is moving up in weight for the 126 lbs WBO title of Steven Luevano.
Steven Luevano of La Puenta, California said that he trained three (3) months for this fight and is also ready to go the distance and use his longer reach to keep Lopez at bay.
"I’m just taught how to box early as a boxer, I don’t want to slug and I know they are under estimating me in this fight but I’ll keep the title on Saturday night." he said./MP
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