Top Rank Promotions' CEO Bob Arum has informed FanHouse of preliminary plans for an expected media frenzy for the Nov. 13 junior middleweight (154 pounds) championship whose main event features WBO welterweight (147 pounds) Manny "Pac Man" Pacquiao and Antonio Margarito for the vacant WBC crown at Dallas Cowboys Stadium.
"We're working very hard on Nov. 13, and we've got so much to do. We're doing a media day for Manny on Wednesday, October 27, and a media day for Antonio on Thursday October 28. They're both going to be in Los Angeles. We're trying to get as big a press representation and media turnout as possible," said Arum."I'm going to host a dinner for the press on Wednesday night, October 27 in Los Angeles. So I do think that it will be well worth while because we will have the ability to stream this live on websites. We're planning to have all of the goodies," said Arum. "We are going to guarantee private interviews with each of the fighters, and, with [Pacquiao's trainer] Freddie Roach and [Margarito's trainer] Robert Garcia. There is going to be access to getting all of the material that you're going to need."
Although Margarito has been training at Garcia's Boxing Academy in Oxnard, Calif., Arum is moving his camp for one day to Los Angeles for improved access.
So while the media day for Pacquiao will be held at the Wild Card Boxing Club, where he will have been training for about a day since arriving from the Philippines, the media day for Margarito will take place at the Pound4Pound Gym "right down the street from the Wild Card," said Arum.
"The Pound4Pound Gym is about a mile away from Freddie's [Wild Card] gym in Los Angeles. You will be able to see what type of shape that each guy is in," said Arum. "And then, Wednesday night will be the media function that I'm going to host and I know that Freddie will come, and Manny and Antonio will drop by. So we will see."
The monster under card is comprised of Cuban-born southpaw and two-time former Olympic gold medalist Guillermo Rigondeaux (6-0, five knockouts), who has been competing as a professional super bantamweight (122 pounds), against Panamanian southpaw featherweight (126 pounds) Ricardo Cordoba (37-2-2, 23 KOs).
It also includes the return of 28-year-old former WBO and WBC middleweight (160 pounds) champion Kelly Pavlik (36-2, 32 KOs), of Youngstown, Ohio, against Bryan Lee Vera (17-5, 11 KOs), of Austin, Tex., and rising Philadelphia welterweight Mike Jones (22-0, 18 KOs) in a bout opposite Mexican-born Jesus Soto Karass (24-4-3, 16 KOs) of Los Angeles.
Those HBO pay per view televised fights will lead up to seven-division king Pacquiao (51-3-2, 38 KOs), of the Philippines, pursuing his eighth crown in as many weight classes opposite ex-titlist Margarito (38-6, 27 KOs), of Tijuana, Mex.
"On Tuesday, October 26, in New York, I'll be in New York hosting a luncheon in the Friars Club for the press for Kelly Pavlik and Mike Jones," said Arum. "And then, I'm going to be flying that afternoon into Los Angeles."
Source: boxing.fanhouse.com
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