Conference Call Notes For The Agbeko-Perez Bout

Posted by A. Shakoor on 10.22.2009

Here are some tidbits.

Don King Productions held a conference call this past Tuesday in promotion for the October 31rst showdown between champion, Joseph Agbeko, and challenger, Yonnhy Perez. These are some of the highlights:

Q, Joseph, why are you so confident you're going to win this fight by knockout?

AGBEKO: "I'm so confident because Yonnhy Perez is a good fighter. He can come forward, he can go backward. Fighting a very good fighter is always difficult. It makes you work harder. Yonnhy Perez can definitely not stay in there with me. He's definitely going to get stopped."

Q. Yonnhy, what do you think about Agbeko's prediction of a knockout?

PEREZ: "I'm ready for any type of battle to happen in the ring. I don't want to make a prediction of my own, but as far as what Agbeko said coming into this fight and predicting a knockout, it's OK..... I know they can talk more than what they can actually do in the ring. He shouldn't spit up in the air because all that's going to fall right on his face."

Q. Don, what's it like to return to the city where you've promoted so many great fights?

KING: "First of all, I really never left Las Vegas. I'm always there. But, when I found a guy name Phil Ruffin…who is able to give the people what they want, that's not so corporate and can be more human, then I came back and worked with him to be able to bring back the glory of yesteryear back into Las Vegas again.