Pacquiao-Barrera Interviews

Marco Antonio Barrera

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We’re very fortunate today to have Marco Antonio Barrera join us from his training camp in Guadalajara, Mexico. Also on the line with us is Eric Gomez who will be the translator and Ramiro Gonzalez as well from Golden Boy who will help in the discussion.

We will - we do have some English and Spanish speaking media on the line with us. So if everybody is patient, for Spanish questions we will translate to English and for English questions, we will translate to Spanish. So without further ado, I’d like to open it up to Mr. Barrera.

And Marco if you could give us a brief statement as to how training camp is going and with less than two weeks away, how you’re feeling about your anticipated bout with Manny Pacquiao on Saturday, October 6. Marco. Eric Gomez will translate for him.

Marco, we would now like to have you give us a brief statement. How training camp is going, how you’re feeling less than two weeks away from the fight and then we’ll turn it over to the media for questions. Marco.

Eric Gomez: He says hi. Welcome everybody. Thank you for being on this conference call. I’m feeling really good, training really hard and I’m ready. I can’t wait to fight.

Kelly Swanson: Okay. Great. Let’s open it up to the media please and if you could keep the noise down in the background, I’d appreciate it.

Okay. Operator please open it up for questioning. Start with our first question.

Agustavo Sanches: (”"Foreign Language”")

Eric Gomez: The question was, Marco basically are you taking this fight for the honor of Mexico? You know Manny Pacquiao he beat you in the first fight. He also beat Erik Morales twice convincingly knocked him out. What do you feel and, you know, are you doing it for the honor of Mexico?

And Marco replied yes. Obviously it’s a big honor for me to be able to fight. This is a personal fight for me. It’s very personal. I’m taking it personal. He beat me so I have to get my revenge.

Diego Martinez: (”"Foreign Language”")

Eric Gomez: The question is Marco, you know, there’s been rumors that Manny Pacquiao hasn’t been concentrating like he should. He’s not 100%. What do you think about that and are you expecting that

And he says no, you know what, I really don’t pay attention to that. I’m expecting the best Manny Pacquiao there is. There’s a lot of rumors going around that Freddie Roach is sending spies, this and that. There’s no need to send spies. I’ll open up the doors for him. He can come and see the training if he wants. I’ll set it up all up for him.

Dan Rafael: Marco I wondered, you know, the first fight was a pretty dominant victory for Manny Pacquiao several years ago. I wondered what is going to be the difference in your perspective in how this second fight unfolds?

Eric Gomez: He says yes. He says, you know, obviously I had a bad night. I’m not going to make any excuses. It was a bad night. But the difference in this fight is that training has been great. It’s been great. I’ve had a great training camp. And there’s no excuses.

Dan Rafael: Would you ask him Eric if there’s anything in that first fight that he thought he did well that he will look to carry on in the second fight or was it just a complete meltdown of everything and just everything went wrong for him?

Eric Gomez: He says yeah. It was a total meltdown. He says, you know, I can’t really take anything from that fight. It was Manny’s night that fight. He took it to me. But this fight, the difference is going to be that - the inspiration within me. I’m really inspired for this fight and training camp has been real relaxed; no problems. Everything has been going really smooth and great.

Dan Rafael: One more question for America. I have heard, read, seen that he has made changes in his corner that Rudy is gone, that Robert Diaz, his long time advisor, is no longer involved in his camp and this particular fight. Can he clarify that situation and tell me one, if that’s true. And if so, who’s in the camp? And two, if they are gone, how come?

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