reality of the was was that we'd like to thank the new york knicks we all know that this time of the year is a real playoff driven year and it's so hard to get into the building and we were in it we were at a fight down in the in the theater with michael conlon and we're doing press conference and jol and everybody's like so where you go where you go i'm a twenty we're like well we're looking at another but we think we can make it happen and when you hear that you kind of get goosebumps because not often do you get to play the big building and anon or for both of all the fighters up here is not often do you get a fight in the big building so it's really an honor for us to promote and it's an honor for all of these guys to fight in the madison square garden and it couldn't have happened without joel fischer and his great staff so i'd like to introduce joel fischer todd and yeah we got lucky but we are thrilled that the fight is here i want to welcome everybody to chase square here and welcome you back to the mecca of boxing madison square garden two weeks ago we had over twenty five thousand fans here at the garden st the fight in the theater with the professional debut of michael conlon sold out and then of course they're going to  daniel jacobs fight in the arena which was just a great fight new york fans clearly have an appetite for great boxing and we're thrilled to put great boxing on here at garden we also want to welcome felix diaz the two thousand and eight gold medalist in all the other fighters they're going to fight on this card should be a great night world championship fights at madison square garden the mecca of boxing there is absolutely nothing better it's a thrill to be working with todd carr all again it's great to be working with lou can't imagine where you've been low so it's great to have you back here and obviously peter nelson and h b o if you can make it here should be a great night on may th was thrilled to be hosting this event we will look forward to seeing you all on may th thanks the the fight will be televised on h b o h b o has obviously been the gold standard for many years they have brought so many incredible boxing events to all of our airwaves they have developed fighters they have showcase fighters and they have obviously introduced incredible documentary style programming like two hundred and forty seven real sports et at the helm of h b o sports is peter nelson who has taken the leadership of a company with great pride and continued its excellen you todd one think the press for being here also want think the press for pushing for this fight as everyone knows terrence crawford fights anyone any place any time and he's never backed down from a challenge anytime anyone's brought up any name and any style puncher boxer orthodox southpaw anything go to terence an ass and take the fight takes a fight and that's what great champions do that's the job so i want to think team crawford for always stepping up for example find the type of excellence that the fans expect of their champions think joel fisher in the team at the garden it's always forward to a great month of boxing ahead from the fight this weekend to the canelo chargers pay per view and then onward to this fight here at the big room in the garden we're thrilled for it terrence is also pulling competing again i want think team diaz for stepping up and taking the fight against a fighter a lot of fighters don't want to fight typifies the type of bravery that we expect from champions who really want to make it seem mr when putting on an event or deciding who's going to be participating in the event obviously we have to talk to the teams we had a wonderful conversation with terrence cameron bryan and they just said just their time hours every loop except the phone and start screaming at every press guy why this guy should get his fight his his guy should get a fight and you know and as as you know peter said i'd like to thank the press for make help making this fight whatever happens however th because he'll fight it because he's the best because he's never run away from a challenge there was no disrespect in us chasing him for that long period of time it's because felix diaz knew that to assert his own abilities and to prove who he is as a fighter he needed to get into a ring with someone who had already been given the opportunity to do that and and that's why we chased crawford so hard because we knew he was the kind of champion that doesn't duck a challenge that isn't afraid of anybody and that might just give the as this opportunity and then honestly i'd like any like this was sort of a by any means necessary sort of chase like we just wanted to get felix this fight and that's what he did i want this is a reason he won olympic gold medal because he's one of the best fighters at his weight in the world there's a reason why he went to hostile territory and most people thought he beat lamont peterson because he's that good  and there's a reason why he went up in weight outside of his own weight class and did real damage to sammy vasquez and won that fight because great fighters do what they have to do to win  even if it's at seven pounds heavier than they are they're used to fighting this is a really really good fight for fight fans it's a really really good fight for h b o for the garden felix has the new york dominican community washington heights and elsewhere i think they're going to come out and support him i know bud's going to travel more people from omaha than you could possibly believe and that he has a fan base everywhere as a pound for pound fighter i expect a great fight on may th i think everybody involved i want to bring up to say a few words the former olympic gold medalist one of the best fighters in the world at one hundred and forty pounds and his strength and conditioning will be kind enough to do the translation for us when i was arguing with my managers about getting fighting the biggest fights out there crawford was number one since he's the best out there and it's such an amazing opportunity to finally get that fight with him in iowa but   we'll wait to see everybody there thank you you know one of the one of the great things is when you're at a press conference and it's your turn to introduce your fighter or the guy that you're associated with it's easy to you start to reflect how did you get here and honestly i can tell you the you know the truth it's one of the harder things to do is to not start with somebody from the beginning but to inherit i'm a little bit into their careers we've had a really good success of taking guys from the pro debut all the way through and in terence's situation that wasn't the case we took him on a little later when he had a couple fights under his belt and this meteoric rise came down to one thing he's a fighter and little opportunities came up never forget we were in las vegas and there was an opportunity for him to fight prescott who had knocked out amir khan and everyone says this guy's a b c's tough right handed punc and cameron duncan was quiet and brian mcintyre was like hell let's do it so is terence boom there we go next picked opportunity a fighter turns down a fight with the door opens terrence walks through it and here we go omaha nebraska ten thousand people and he took to have that opportunity so this example is an example that we wish i could get in prize fighting it is called prize fighting because when you take the risk you get the prize the prize is your fill in the garden you're coming back you're in the big building you're considered fighter the year two years ago you're pound for pound in the top two across the board that's the prize that prize could not have been done or accomplish with  in the ring or with his advisor cameron duncan or with his wing man brian mcintyre like to introduce bri percent you've got a good team around you you've got a reason and we all know his story you've got to bellow that's a different story  but i know those guys are world class all of them develop riza and his trainer dia's whatever's trying mamie's they world class he produced him bradley so i know those guys you love them or something so to so you know we all talk about you know like i talked earlier about somebody opening up the door opens and they take a step throw you know i terrence he  only takes a step through but he just every time he just delivers and one of the things about him is that he just loves to finish guys when they get hurt and that makes him very telegenic right and we're really in the industry of you know fans connecting to somebody who does it so if it's in omaha nebraska or if it's in las vegas or of it's in new york terence lights it up i'd like to introduce two time world champion and pound for pound one of the top two guys in the world i'll say pound for pound the best there we go terence  i really excited for this fight real of for being a rino to blogs people have been saying to me for the last couple of days telling me that this guy said i'm scared of them and i've been krystle this is basically what he said to me and he's a confident young man is a cover young man because of the fact that he's for so long he's waited so long there were other guys who were proposal crowfoot and they pushed him aside and we