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Tickets are ON SALE NOW for the 40th Annual BUSINESS OUTLOOK CONFERENCE on Friday, February 24, 2012 at the AV Fairgrounds.  Call our office at 661-942-9581 and reserve your seat for only $150 ($135 AVBOT member price) or $1200 for a table of 8 ($1080 member price). Your ticket includes a continental breakfast, buffet lunch and all the networking that you can fit in between 7:30 am and 2:30 pm.

Boxing Legend Sugar Ray Leonard will replace NBA Basketball Star Earvin “Magic” Johnson as the keynoter for the Business Outlook Conference because Johnson cancelled due to the NBA rescheduling the all star game and his contractual obligations with ESPN.  The Antelope Valley Board of Trade’s 40th annual conference is planned at 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 24, at the Poppy Pavilion at the AV Fairgrounds.

“Leonard is one of the legendary sports icons of the 20th century whose very name epitomizes boxing and conjures the image of a champion. He recently made an appearance on ABC’s ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ and he was host and mentor of the critically-acclaimed show, ‘The Contender’ on ESPN,” said Drew Mercy, Chairman of the annual Antelope Valley of Trade Conference.

Leonard recently served as a choreographer on the fight scenes for the hit movie “Real Steel” which premiered in October 2011. He wrote his autobiography entitled The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring” published in 2011.

After winning a gold medal in boxing at the 1976 Olympic games, he turned professional to help his family defer mounting medical bills incurred because of his father’s illness. During his twenty-year professional career, Leonard also won world titles in the welterweight, junior middleweight, super middleweight, and light heavyweight divisions. He was the first boxer to win world titles in five different weight classes, a record that stands to this day.

Leonard’s sincere, charismatic personality coupled with his ring experience led to a successful career as a television broadcaster for NBC, ABC, HBO and ESPN. In addition, his celebrity status fostered commercial endorsement relationships with numerous companies including EA Sports, Vartec Telecom, Track Inc., Ford, Carnation, 7-Up, Nabisco, Coca-Cola and Revlon. “Board President Rhonda Nelson says, “I am looking forward to hearing what this world class athlete has to say. He’s energetic and charismatic – a winning combination.”

Other featured speakers at the conference will be Dr. Mark Schniepp, director of the California Economic Forecast; Joe Brennan, Production Operations Director for The Spaceship Company; and NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden Jr.

Individual tickets are $150 each or $1,200 for a table of eight, with members receiving a 10% discount. For tickets contact the AV Board of Trade office at 661-942-9581 or e-mail teri@avbot.org.

“THE BIG FIGHT:  My Life In and Out of the Ring” (June 2011) – autobiography, SUGAR RAY LEONARD

In this unflinching and inspiring autobiography, the boxing legend faces his single greatest competitor: himself.

Sugar Ray Leonard’s brutally honest and uplifting memoir reveals in intimate detail for the first time the complex man behind the boxer. The Olympic hero, multichampionship winner, and beloved athlete waged his own personal battle with depression, rage, addiction, and greed.

Coming from a tumultuous, impoverished household and a dangerous neighborhood on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., in the 1970s, Sugar Ray Leonard rose swiftly and skillfully through the ranks of amateur boxing-and eventually went on to win a gold medal in the 1976 Olympics. With an extremely ill father and no endorsement deals, Leonard decided to go pro.

The Big Fight takes readers behind the scenes of a notoriously corrupt sport and chronicles the evolution of a champion, as Leonard prepares for the greatest fights of his life-against Marvin Hagler, Roberto Duran, Tommy Hearns, and Wilfred Benitez. At the same time Leonard fearlessly reveals his own contradictions and compulsions, his infidelity, and alcohol and cocaine abuse.

With honesty, humor, and hard-won perspective, Leonard comes to terms with both triumph and struggle-and presents a gripping portrait of remarkable strength, courage, and resilience, both in and out of the ring.

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