Of course if he loses that first fight, there's a good chance there's not going to be a second. That's how boxing is.

There are guys that are tremendous fighters that don't get the chance to fight at Madison Square Garden.

It was an exciting day today. We flew out [to New York]; we were treated like royalty, rubbed elbows with the best in the business. He's on pay-per-view. He's at Madison Square Garden. That's like being in the Super Bowl. That's like being in the national championship. Fighters who have fought for 10 years -- title-holders -- don't get a chance to fight at the Garden.

I thought that he would have been a better boxer than a football player, because being a football player you have to have size, you have to have speed. It's a lot more difficult to get a scholarship for football than it is to go into the gym and go box.

They believe with him in the charity event they'll be able to raise it.

[Of] the last ten fights that he had, seven have been for charity.