Holyfield-Oquendo Kick-Off Press Conference

[Wacko3205]

Holyfield-Oquendo Kick-Off Press Conference

Holyfield holds court at the New York press conference (pic Jerry Glick)

http://secondsout.com/usa/lusal.cfm?ccs=473&cs=20279


On occasion, it's enlightening to look at the familiar through new eyes. Thus, when Jessica Hauser (Thomas Hauser's niece) attended her first boxing press conference, Secondsout asked for her report.

Holyfield-Oquendo Kick-Off Press Conference

By Jessica Hauser: The press release read "MEDIA ALERT" in capital letters three times with twenty asterisks in between. And that was just the top line. Then it got to the point: "Murad Muhammad, President of M&M Sports, and Evander 'The Real Deal' Holyfield, former world heavyweight champion, will host a press conference on Thursday, September 7th, at Gallagher's Restaurant at 228 West 52nd Street in Manhattan at 12 noon. The press conference will disclose Holyfield's next bout in his drive to regain the world title, the date of the fight, location, and the name of his world-ranked opponent. Both Holyfield and his opponent will attend the conference."

I arrived at 11:45 AM. Evander was already there, wearing black slacks and a short-sleeved black shirt. People with microphones and cameras were crowded around him.

"This is all bullshit," boxing writer George Kimball volunteered to me. "Don't believe a word you hear today."

Fres Oquendo came in wearing a gold jacket and flashy sequined hat. Despite the supposed secrecy, everyone in attendance already knew that he was going to be Evander's opponent. Then the press conference started.

Murad Muhammad began by saying that this fight card is "the will of God" and talked for an excruciatingly long time. People could have gone to the rest room, checked their email, sent a dozen text messages, and he still would have been talking when they came back. Holyfield and Oquendo looked very bored and stared into space. Lou DiBella (Fres's promoter) looked painfully bored and fidgeted a lot. Among the things that Murad said were that he was the one who introduced boxing to HBO (that will be a surprise to former HBO Sports president Seth Abraham) and that Evander is the "uncrowned heavyweight champion of the world."

Finally, it was the fighters' turn to speak.

"When I was in high school," Oquendo said, "I remember Evander saying, 'It's not the size of the man; it's the size of the heart in the man that counts. That always stayed in my head."

Holyfield talked about his desire to become undisputed heavyweight champion of the world again and told the gathering, "Chapter five [his fifth heavyweight title] is the last chapter. It's about faith and what you believe. I don't say things to amuse myself. I say things because I believe them."

It seems as though Evander has told himself so many times that he will become champion again that he truly believes it.

At the end of the press conference, I was introduced to Lou DiBella, who told me, "Boxing is a horrendous miserable vile business full of miserable thieving motherfuckers. But with this miserable shitty pathetic crop of heavyweights, anyone can become heavyweight champion."

Evander Holyfield versus Fres Oquendo will be televised on Fox Sports Net Pay-Per-View on November 10th from the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. The suggested pay-per-view price is $44.95.


Jessica Hauser can be reached by email at jess@bendcable.com.

September 7, 2006

Holyfield-Oquendo...OH BWOY!!!

Here's my problem : "Boxing is a horrendous miserable vile business full of miserable thieving motherfuckers. But with this miserable shitty pathetic crop of heavyweights, anyone can become heavyweight champion."

Did Lou forget that he was talking to a woman? No disrespect to Jessica Hauser...but how old is she? No...that doesn't matter...WTF is Lou doing speaking like that?

He's a douche bag anyways...& I got a foul mouth too...but I don't go running jive like that to someone I just met...much less a woman.

[Cortez The Killer]

[b]Holyfield-Oquendo Kick-Off Press Conference


Here's my problem : "Boxing is a horrendous miserable vile business full of miserable thieving motherfuckers. But with this miserable shitty pathetic crop of heavyweights, anyone can become heavyweight champion."

Did Lou forget that he was talking to a woman? No disrespect to Jessica Hauser...but how old is she? No...that doesn't matter...WTF is Lou doing speaking like that?

He's a douche bag anyways...& I got a foul mouth too...but I don't go running jive like that to someone I just met...much less a woman.

Well Wacko, this may disappoint you even more. The interviewer, Jessica Hauser, is a 11 year-old girl and after using profanity Lou preoceeded to steal her lollipop and told her that Santa was nothing but a myth.

What you mean you wouldn't swear in front of a woman!? She's a interviewer and an adult, no need to sugarcoat stuff for her! Lou is often brash and vulagr, but I always liked, "Ike got f*cked." after the Forrest fight

[superheavyrhun]

[b]Holyfield-Oquendo Kick-Off Press Conference


Here's my problem : "Boxing is a horrendous miserable vile business full of miserable thieving motherfuckers. But with this miserable shitty pathetic crop of heavyweights, anyone can become heavyweight champion."

Did Lou forget that he was talking to a woman? No disrespect to Jessica Hauser...but how old is she? No...that doesn't matter...WTF is Lou doing speaking like that?

He's a douche bag anyways...& I got a foul mouth too...but I don't go running jive like that to someone I just met...much less a woman.

Well Wacko, this may disappoint you even more. The interviewer, Jessica Hauser, is a 11 year-old girl and after using profanity Lou preoceeded to steal her lollipop and told her that Santa was nothing but a myth.

What you mean you wouldn't swear in front of a woman!? She's a interviewer and an adult, no need to sugarcoat stuff for her! Lou is often brash and vulagr, but I always liked, "Ike got f*cked." after the Forrest fight

CC....LOL! Anyhow, Wack's right...never talk foulmouth to a woman....it's just polite.

[Wacko3205]

[b]Holyfield-Oquendo Kick-Off Press Conference


Here's my problem : "Boxing is a horrendous miserable vile business full of miserable thieving motherfuckers. But with this miserable shitty pathetic crop of heavyweights, anyone can become heavyweight champion."

Did Lou forget that he was talking to a woman? No disrespect to Jessica Hauser...but how old is she? No...that doesn't matter...WTF is Lou doing speaking like that?

He's a douche bag anyways...& I got a foul mouth too...but I don't go running jive like that to someone I just met...much less a woman.

Well Wacko, this may disappoint you even more. The interviewer, Jessica Hauser, is a 11 year-old girl and after using profanity Lou preoceeded to steal her lollipop and told her that Santa was nothing but a myth.

What you mean you wouldn't swear in front of a woman!? She's a interviewer and an adult, no need to sugarcoat stuff for her! Lou is often brash and vulagr, but I always liked, "Ike got f*cked." after the Forrest fight

Your mom would be disappointed...come to think of it...you know...my mom probably is too.

but Dibella is still a "sweaty ball sack" IWHO.

[Wacko3205]

[b]Holyfield-Oquendo Kick-Off Press Conference


Here's my problem : "Boxing is a horrendous miserable vile business full of miserable thieving motherfuckers. But with this miserable shitty pathetic crop of heavyweights, anyone can become heavyweight champion."

Did Lou forget that he was talking to a woman? No disrespect to Jessica Hauser...but how old is she? No...that doesn't matter...WTF is Lou doing speaking like that?

He's a douche bag anyways...& I got a foul mouth too...but I don't go running jive like that to someone I just met...much less a woman.

Well Wacko, this may disappoint you even more. The interviewer, Jessica Hauser, is a 11 year-old girl and after using profanity Lou preoceeded to steal her lollipop and told her that Santa was nothing but a myth.

What you mean you wouldn't swear in front of a woman!? She's a interviewer and an adult, no need to sugarcoat stuff for her! Lou is often brash and vulagr, but I always liked, "Ike got f*cked." after the Forrest fight

CC....LOL! Anyhow, Wack's right...never talk foulmouth to a woman....it's just polite.

Agreed. in another 24.

Anyone with a daughter (which I have) knows that that shit aint right...that's why I'm thrilled to death that the DRBR's are done after hours while the baby girl has gone "night night wif bwanky" (as my 2 year old is so often fond of saying...bwanky being her disgusting bear blanket that she carries as her paci) because if you think my typing is full of foul language...you should hear me yelling at the screens that refuse to yell back.

Honestly, it's just a NO-NO in Wack's book. I try to never talk trash like that in front of a woman...cept the wifee wife.

This is yet another reason that I believe big Lou has sworn of women.

[Wacko3205]

Oquendo by KO.

























































**This will be yet another stinker pulled off by Holy...if his stamina wills it...it shall be done.

[Lords Gym]

Holyfield-Oquendo Kick-Off Press Conference

Holyfield holds court at the New York press conference (pic Jerry Glick)

http://secondsout.com/usa/lusal.cfm?ccs=473&cs=20279


On occasion, it's enlightening to look at the familiar through new eyes. Thus, when Jessica Hauser (Thomas Hauser's niece) attended her first boxing press conference, Secondsout asked for her report.

Holyfield-Oquendo Kick-Off Press Conference

By Jessica Hauser: The press release read "MEDIA ALERT" in capital letters three times with twenty asterisks in between. And that was just the top line. Then it got to the point: "Murad Muhammad, President of M&M Sports, and Evander 'The Real Deal' Holyfield, former world heavyweight champion, will host a press conference on Thursday, September 7th, at Gallagher's Restaurant at 228 West 52nd Street in Manhattan at 12 noon. The press conference will disclose Holyfield's next bout in his drive to regain the world title, the date of the fight, location, and the name of his world-ranked opponent. Both Holyfield and his opponent will attend the conference."

I arrived at 11:45 AM. Evander was already there, wearing black slacks and a short-sleeved black shirt. People with microphones and cameras were crowded around him.

"This is all bullshit," boxing writer George Kimball volunteered to me. "Don't believe a word you hear today."

Fres Oquendo came in wearing a gold jacket and flashy sequined hat. Despite the supposed secrecy, everyone in attendance already knew that he was going to be Evander's opponent. Then the press conference started.

Murad Muhammad began by saying that this fight card is "the will of God" and talked for an excruciatingly long time. People could have gone to the rest room, checked their email, sent a dozen text messages, and he still would have been talking when they came back. Holyfield and Oquendo looked very bored and stared into space. Lou DiBella (Fres's promoter) looked painfully bored and fidgeted a lot. Among the things that Murad said were that he was the one who introduced boxing to HBO (that will be a surprise to former HBO Sports president Seth Abraham) and that Evander is the "uncrowned heavyweight champion of the world."

Finally, it was the fighters' turn to speak.

"When I was in high school," Oquendo said, "I remember Evander saying, 'It's not the size of the man; it's the size of the heart in the man that counts. That always stayed in my head."

Holyfield talked about his desire to become undisputed heavyweight champion of the world again and told the gathering, "Chapter five [his fifth heavyweight title] is the last chapter. It's about faith and what you believe. I don't say things to amuse myself. I say things because I believe them."

It seems as though Evander has told himself so many times that he will become champion again that he truly believes it.

At the end of the press conference, I was introduced to Lou DiBella, who told me, "Boxing is a horrendous miserable vile business full of miserable thieving motherfuckers. But with this miserable shitty pathetic crop of heavyweights, anyone can become heavyweight champion."

Evander Holyfield versus Fres Oquendo will be televised on Fox Sports Net Pay-Per-View on November 10th from the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. The suggested pay-per-view price is $44.95.


Jessica Hauser can be reached by email at jess@bendcable.com.

September 7, 2006

Holyfield-Oquendo...OH BWOY!!!

Here's my problem : "Boxing is a horrendous miserable vile business full of miserable thieving motherfuckers. But with this miserable shitty pathetic crop of heavyweights, anyone can become heavyweight champion."

Did Lou forget that he was talking to a woman? No disrespect to Jessica Hauser...but how old is she? No...that doesn't matter...WTF is Lou doing speaking like that?

He's a douche bag anyways...& I got a foul mouth too...but I don't go running jive like that to someone I just met...much less a woman.

Wacko you make a good point about the piss poor language by Lou . no class to say that in the company of a female . , but you wrong about my man Holyfield . Evander is going to put a tap dance on Oquendo, you can go to the bank on that ! Holyfield wins inside 6

[Wacko3205]

Holyfield-Oquendo Kick-Off Press Conference

Holyfield holds court at the New York press conference (pic Jerry Glick)

http://secondsout.com/usa/lusal.cfm?ccs=473&cs=20279


On occasion, it's enlightening to look at the familiar through new eyes. Thus, when Jessica Hauser (Thomas Hauser's niece) attended her first boxing press conference, Secondsout asked for her report.

Holyfield-Oquendo Kick-Off Press Conference

By Jessica Hauser: The press release read "MEDIA ALERT" in capital letters three times with twenty asterisks in between. And that was just the top line. Then it got to the point: "Murad Muhammad, President of M&M Sports, and Evander 'The Real Deal' Holyfield, former world heavyweight champion, will host a press conference on Thursday, September 7th, at Gallagher's Restaurant at 228 West 52nd Street in Manhattan at 12 noon. The press conference will disclose Holyfield's next bout in his drive to regain the world title, the date of the fight, location, and the name of his world-ranked opponent. Both Holyfield and his opponent will attend the conference."

I arrived at 11:45 AM. Evander was already there, wearing black slacks and a short-sleeved black shirt. People with microphones and cameras were crowded around him.

"This is all bullshit," boxing writer George Kimball volunteered to me. "Don't believe a word you hear today."

Fres Oquendo came in wearing a gold jacket and flashy sequined hat. Despite the supposed secrecy, everyone in attendance already knew that he was going to be Evander's opponent. Then the press conference started.

Murad Muhammad began by saying that this fight card is "the will of God" and talked for an excruciatingly long time. People could have gone to the rest room, checked their email, sent a dozen text messages, and he still would have been talking when they came back. Holyfield and Oquendo looked very bored and stared into space. Lou DiBella (Fres's promoter) looked painfully bored and fidgeted a lot. Among the things that Murad said were that he was the one who introduced boxing to HBO (that will be a surprise to former HBO Sports president Seth Abraham) and that Evander is the "uncrowned heavyweight champion of the world."

Finally, it was the fighters' turn to speak.

"When I was in high school," Oquendo said, "I remember Evander saying, 'It's not the size of the man; it's the size of the heart in the man that counts. That always stayed in my head."

Holyfield talked about his desire to become undisputed heavyweight champion of the world again and told the gathering, "Chapter five [his fifth heavyweight title] is the last chapter. It's about faith and what you believe. I don't say things to amuse myself. I say things because I believe them."

It seems as though Evander has told himself so many times that he will become champion again that he truly believes it.

At the end of the press conference, I was introduced to Lou DiBella, who told me, "Boxing is a horrendous miserable vile business full of miserable thieving motherfuckers. But with this miserable shitty pathetic crop of heavyweights, anyone can become heavyweight champion."

Evander Holyfield versus Fres Oquendo will be televised on Fox Sports Net Pay-Per-View on November 10th from the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. The suggested pay-per-view price is $44.95.


Jessica Hauser can be reached by email at jess@bendcable.com.

September 7, 2006

Holyfield-Oquendo...OH BWOY!!!

Here's my problem : "Boxing is a horrendous miserable vile business full of miserable thieving motherfuckers. But with this miserable shitty pathetic crop of heavyweights, anyone can become heavyweight champion."

Did Lou forget that he was talking to a woman? No disrespect to Jessica Hauser...but how old is she? No...that doesn't matter...WTF is Lou doing speaking like that?

He's a douche bag anyways...& I got a foul mouth too...but I don't go running jive like that to someone I just met...much less a woman.

Wacko you make a good point about the piss poor language by Lou . no class to say that in the company of a female . , but you wrong about my man Holyfield . Evander is going to put a tap dance on Oquendo, you can go to the bank on that ! Holyfield wins inside 6

Oquendo by KO.

**This will be yet another stinker pulled off by Holy...if his stamina wills it...it shall be done.

You missed that part, right?

[Lords Gym]

[Lords Gym]

cool click in 24 Wacko, enjoyed the read as always !

[Wacko3205]

cool click in 24 Wacko, enjoyed the read as always !

right fwockin niz-ow!!!

The thing is...Oquendo's been on a looooooooooooong lay off & I would honestly think that Holy-roller will be able to handle him if he can control his own stamina & also the pace of the first few rounds.

Oquendo aint S***. Hate to say that...but it's a fact.

I mean...Javier Mora & Daniel Bispo...who the fwock are they?

[Lords Gym]

cool click in 24 Wacko, enjoyed the read as always !

right fwockin niz-ow!!!

The thing is...Oquendo's been on a looooooooooooong lay off & I would honestly think that Holy-roller will be able to handle him if he can control his own stamina & also the pace of the first few rounds.

Oquendo aint S***. Hate to say that...but it's a fact.

I mean...Javier Mora & Daniel Bispo...who the fwock are they?

Its good fight to gauge where Evander is at, Oquendo provides enough of a threat to make Holyfield have work yet safe enough to pull off a win even if Evander is not back 100% id say Evander at 75% could beat Fres. Evander looks to be back in form with that rotar cuff healed up. Its his chance to shine, I expect a rejuvenated performance this go around !

[Wacko3205]

Its good fight to gauge where Evander is at, Oquendo provides enough of a threat to make Holyfield have work yet safe enough to pull off a win even if Evander is not back 100% id say Evander at 75% could beat Fres. Evander looks to be back in form with that rotar cuff healed up. Its his chance to shine, I expect a rejuvenated performance this go around !

I'd almost agree with that...but IWO...it's been a long long time since Evander has been 75%.

I mean...I was drunk as fwock for his last fight & the DRBR went off like a bomb on that one...but generally...after a nice night's drunk...things are a lot different in the morning.

Usually you awake shocked...you take things into perspective & you then chew your arm off to get away from the bird that you plucked last night in your inebriated stupor...

Just because Holy beat some fat fall guy doesn't mean that he'll beat Oquendo. I like your loyalty...but in boxing...quite often you have to recognize that loyalty sometimes equates to disappointment.

Fres has some skills...it might be a ruff night for Holy. You never know.

[Lords Gym]

good point ! LMFAO !