USA: LAILA ALI AND JACQUI FRAZIER-LYDE HOLD NEWS CONFERENCE IN ADVANCE OF THEIR FIGHT IN VERONA, NEW YORK

Record ID: 647088

  • Title: USA: LAILA ALI AND JACQUI FRAZIER-LYDE HOLD NEWS CONFERENCE IN ADVANCE OF THEIR FIGHT IN VERONA, NEW YORK
  • Date: 6th June 2001
  • Summary: (S1) VERONA, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES. JUNE 6, 2001. (ACCESS ALL) 1. EXTERIOR OF TURING STONE CASINO 2. WIDE OF NEWS CONFERENCE 3. LAILA ALI SITS DOWN 4. FRAZIER-LYDE ENTERS 5. WIDE SHOT OF NEWS CONFERENCE 6. (SOUNDBITE) (English) PROMOTER LOU DUVA SAYING: "To say this fight is just a commercial thing. I don't think so,. The media may have said that but I really think there is bad blood out there and I think they are going to fight. It happened 30 years ago and its going to happen again on Friday night." 7. WIDE SHOT OF PRESSER 8. FRAZIER LYDE BEING INTRODUCED BY PROMOTER BURT WATSON 9. (SOUNDBITE) (English) FRAZIER -LYDE SAYING: "For us it really is about respect for the sport.I came I genuinely feel god has called me to this. I support Laila Ali even though she does not support my sisterly competitive challenge in the spirt in which I give it. I will defeat her in good sportsmanship and women will rise...not girl player-haters." 10. ALI BEING INTRODUCED BY PROMOTER BURT WATSON 11. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ALI SAYING: "So I'm just hoping when I start busting her along the side of the head she has another plan. What is so funny, Jacqui thinks she is so strong, she does not realize how strong I am. We weigh the same.We are both big girls but her whole thing is her strength and she doesn't know what a hard, stiff,fast punch feels like with the power and the skill and the knuckles cracking upside her head." 12. WIDE SHOT OF AUDIENCE 13. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ALI SAYING: "Regardless of what Jacqui does, I have to dominate and control her clearly by not just a little. Not just "I won the fight it was a great battle" its got to be "Did you see what she did to that girl". 14. ALI TRAINING Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 21st June 2001 13:00
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  • Location: VERONA, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
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  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVABE8B6AGAI677P5F7DVET7VFLS
  • Story Text: Laila Ali and Jacqui Frazier-Lyde held a news
    conference in advance of their Friday night (June 8) fight in
    Verona,New York.



    Ali and Frazier-Lyde appeared together at a press
    conference at the Turning Stone Casino on Wednesday, June 6 to
    promote their showdown. Both proved that when it comes to
    tradfitional pre-fight hype of the type perfected by the
    senior Ali, they were not about to be outdone.

    "So I'm just hoping when I start busting her along the
    side of the head she has another plan. What is so funny,
    Jacqui thinks she is so strong, she does not realize how
    strong I am.

    We weigh the same.We are both big girls but her whole
    thing is her strength and she doesn't know what a hard,
    stiff,fast punch feels like with the power and the skill and
    the knuckles cracking upside her head,"Ali told reporters.

    Not to be out talked, Frazier-Lyde responded.

    "For us it really is about respect for the sport.I came I
    genuinely feel god has called me to this. I support Laila Ali
    even though she does not support my sisterly competitive
    challenge in the spirt in which I give it. I will defeat her
    in good sportsmanship and women will rise...not girl
    player-haters."
    Both fighters will receive an undisclosed purse for the
    fight which will be aired on pay-per-view television.




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