Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Timothy Bradley - Final Press Conference Live Stream

Bottom of the hour. :good

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"Event will begin shortly."

I'm going to have to say, based on years of experience, Top Rank is bottom ranked in punctuality. :!:

 

We are live. Arum is on the podium.

He says the boxing community is divided on this one, basically right down the middle.

 

Arum introduces Maurice Wooden, the president of the Wynn Las Vegas - hosts of the presser.

 

Wooden is predicting Marquez vs. Bradley will be the FOTY.

He says anyone who is attending on Saturday night and staying at the Wynn should have a great weekend.

 

Arum gushes over the Wynn some more. Everything about it top class, pleasure to be here etc.

 

Arum introduces Darren Libonati, executive director of Thomas & Mack Center (the actual venue for Marquez vs. Bradley)

 

Libonati says they've been enjoying having boxing events @ Thomas & Mack since (George) Foreman vs. (Alex) Stewart 21 years ago. Marquez vs. Bradley will mark 31 boxing events since then, and Bob Arum has been involved in 18 of 31 so far and has been a joy to work on them with.

 

Mark Taffett, the president of HBO PPV, says that Bradley and Marquez are both coming off epic memorable career defining victories.

He keeps chatting up the PPV being stacked, available in Hi Definition, and representative of everything great about the sport with Marquez and Bradley being at the pinnacle of it.

He thanks both camps and Top Rank for bringing this all together, as well as ESPN for their involvement helping promote it. (not in the "boxing promotion" sense, but the conventional sense)

 

Arum introduces the executive director of the NSAC, Keith Kizer.

 

Kizer says both Marquez and Bradley had big years in Nevada in 2012 and that both will be looking to carry their momentum into 2013.

He thanks everyone involved, both the Wynn and Thomas & Mack and Top Rank and HBO.

Short 'n' sweet. No comment on drug testing. :yep

 

Arum says that Miguel Cotto will be ringside.

So will the core stable of Cameron Dunkin and Robert Garcia - Nonito Donaire, Mikey Garcia & Brandon Rios.

 

Arum gives a seemingly random shout out to Jesse Hart, seated in the presser crowd, whose father was hard-punching 70's middleweight contender Eugene "Cyclone" Hart.

He says to watch out for Jesse in the future as he gains more exposure across the US (having so far been limited to action in the northeast) and puts the super middleweight division on notice.

 

Arum gives profuse thanks to Tecate for their years of partnership.

He says the Solo Boxeo card on UniMas this Friday, headlined by Jessie Vargas vs. Ray Narh and featuring Jesse Magdaleno along with other undefeated Top Rank prospects, will have a free ticket giveaway sponsored by Tecate.