DE LA HOYA ? FORBES HAS SOLD 24,000 TICKETS
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Thu, 24 Apr 2008
Ticket sales for next weekend?s showdown between the ?Golden Boy? of boxing Oscar De La Hoya and former IBF super featherweight champion Steve ?2 Pounds? Forbes are ?going very well? according to Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer.
In fact they are going so well that over 24,000 seats have been sold according to Schaefer in the maximum capacity 28,500 seat Home Depot Center?s soccer stadium.
HBO says the De La Hoya-Forbes bout will headline the inaugural boxing event at the Center and De a Hoya, a Los Angeles native, will fight ?live? on HBO?s flagship boxing series for the first time since 2001.
The pre-eminent Philippine broadcast network ABS-CBN will telecast the fights over Channel 2 as part of its tie-up with Golden Boy Promotions.
The 31 year old Forbes was a finalist on the ?Contender? series and hasn?t been knocked down as a professional in eleven years. He has a record of 33-5 with 9 knockouts and is coming off a split ten round decision victory over Franncisco Bojado at the Mandalay Bay Resort Hotel & Casino last October 6.
Schaefer told Viva Sports/Manila Standard Today that De a Hoya ?is doing very well and finishing up his training in Puerto Rico.? The megastar is scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles together with his trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr on Friday. Mayweather is the father of pound-for-pound No.1, undefeated Floyd ?Prettty Boy? Mayweather Jr who beat De La Hoya by a twelve round split decision last May 5.
Schaefer said he knows that Forbes is ?training like never before. He knows that this is his opportunity.? Forbes is being trained by Jeff Mayweather, the brother of Floyd Mayweather Sr.
Forbes was quoted by boxing writer Ron Borges as saying he?s been ?thinking of a fight like this since I was a kid. Oscar is a megastar. To be able to fight a megastar in his farewell year in boxing is a dream.?
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