Gary Shaw Fight Quotations

I was standing in the ring at the Lacy fight trying to talk to someone and I couldn't even hear. All I saw was his lips moving. I don't know of how many fights I've gone to where I couldn't hear myself talk and it was that much of a frenzy. It was so electric. I will never ever, ever, forget that moment.

He'd definitely do it if he could get a fight with De La Hoya and he'd probably do it if he got a fight with (Floyd) Mayweather, but that's about it.

Jeff wants to fight exciting fights, he wants to fight good fights, and everybody in the U.S. knows Scott Pemberton is a banger, he goes into wars and he was number one in the 'BC and number five in the IBF. So I said let's give the fans their monies worth.

Jeff satisfied his mandatory against top-rated contender Robin Reid in August so he wouldn't be stripped and the fight would be a true world title unification fight, ... Reid was no warm-up fight.

I stuck up for him. I said Joe is a great champion. We went to Manchester to pay him the respect and he said at a luncheon with Lacy sitting there, 'I want the fight'. So I'm going to give him the respect and I'm going to give Frank Warren the respect. Then hopefully, we are going to get the fight done. But if he doesn't and he pulls out on us, he'll never fight Jeff Lacy again. Forever he will be known as the guy who ducked the big fight.

Manny has fought Marco Antonio Barrera, Juan Manuel Marquez and Erik Morales in his last (four) fights. He's been in tough fight after tough fight, he's been taking on the best fighters of the era and I don't believe that a fighter needs to be a life-and-death fight every time. In this case Manny's coming off a real war with Morales and this is a tune-up fight for the next war with Morales.

You'll have to ask me that question after Pemberton on November 5. Right not Pemberton is the only fight on my mind.

This will be a tremendous battle in a tremendous city, and the most important fight in the 160 pound division.

Everything is a possibility but as of now it looks like the fight will happen at Mohegan Sun.

This fight will breathe life back into the division.

This fight makes Jeff the man. It really makes him the man. A lot of times when you beat the man, you don't become the man. I believe in this fight if we beat the man, we'll surpass him.

They want their sanctioning fees, ... and Diego still wants to fight for a title.

I'll never again do what I did. If I have a contract for 135, we fight at the contract weight.

Chico hurt his ribs in sparring earlier this week. He tried to fight through it for a day or two before getting examined by a doctor late Thursday, who prescribed no training for the next three weeks to allow the injury to completely heal.

He's a huge puncher as well as good boxer. He's definitely deserving to challenge a guy like Jeff Lacy. This fight is a credit to Jeff. He doesn't want any easy fights, ... He wants to become a fan pleaser and to fight the best guys out there. Scott Pemberton is a guy who deserves that shot, and in order to help boxing, you need to give people who have worked hard and are deserving a chance. Now Scott Pemberton has his chance.

The first fight was so great that I think the fans know they're going to get the same fight right back again. Obviously, we hope with a different result.