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Showtime Championship Boxing Brewster vs. Meehan Spinks vs. Gonzalez
September 4, 2004 Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino Las Vegas, Nevada 10 PM ET/PT*
Undisputed
Welterweight
Title Bout (12 Rds) KOs) ____________________________
Organization (WBO) heavyweight crown when he battles Pan Pacific heavyweight titleholder Kali "Checkmate" Sheehan on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING Saturday, Sept. 4, 2004. SHOWTIME will televise the Don King Productions-promoted world championship doubleheader from Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino
in Las Vegas at 10 p.m. ET/PT. faces
former World Boxing Council (WBC) champion and current No. 6 contender,
Miguel Angel Gonzalez. at
the Mandalay Bay Box Office and all TicketMaster outlets. To order tickets
by phone, call (702) 632-7580. Klitschko with a stunning fifth-round TKO at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas April 10, 2004, to claim the WBO title. Brewster won the NABO championship by scoring a third-round TKO over former Olympic bronze medalist Nate Jones on Feb. 2, 2002, in Reading, Pa. In his defense of that title, the Indianapolis native stopped Tom Martin and added the WBC Continental Americas heavyweight belt to his resume in a United States Boxing Association (USBA) title eliminator. After turning pro at age 23, Brewster defeated his initial 22 opponents. Following a 2-2 record in 2000, the hard-hitting heavyweight has knocked out his past six opponents. Brewster will make his 10th Las Vegas appearance and second consecutive Mandalay Bay start. career. He has since won his last six fights, including a sixth-round TKO over Damon Reed April 10, 2004, in Las Vegas. Through his career, Meehan has won every title he has been given the opportunity to capture by knockout, including the Oriental Boxing Association heavyweight, the South Seas heavyweight, the Australian
heavyweight, IBF Pan Pacific heavyweight and the WBO Asia Pacific
heavyweight belts. on April 10, 2004. The judges unanimously awarded Spinks the victory, 116-111 and 114-112 (twice). Spinks shocked the boxing world by upsetting then-World Boxing Association (WBA) and WBC champion Ricardo "El Matador" Mayorga via split decision in Atlantic City, N.J., on Dec. 13, 2003. Two points were deducted from Mayorga, which made the difference in the scoring. Two judges saw it 114-112 and 117-110 for Spinks, while the other had it 114 apiece. Spinks won the International Boxing Federation (IBF) welterweight title in his second attempt against Michele Piccirillo by registering a 12-round unanimous decision on March 22, 2003,
in Campione D'Italia, Italy. Wilfrido Rocha Aug. 24, 1992, in Mexico City, Mexico. Gonzalez defended his title successfully 10 times before stepping up in weight class. On Jan. 18, 1997, Gonzalez did what no one had been able to do to that point when he exposed De La Hoya. Although Gonzalez lost a unanimous 12-round decision, De La Hoya came away with a mouse under his left eye and looked like the beaten fighter. In a war of Mexican heroes March 7, 1998, in Mexico City, Mexico, Gonzalez took on Julio Cesar Chavez. When the scorecards were tallied, one judge had it 116-114 for Gonzalez, another saw it 115-114 for Chavez and the final judge scored it even at 115-115, resulting in a draw. Gonzalez has won his last five fights, including a 10-round TKO over Ernesto
Carmona May 22, 2004 in Mexico City, Mexico. with Jim Gray serving as roving reporter. The executive producer of the SHOWTIME telecast will be Jay Larkin,
with David Dinkins Jr.
producing and Bob Dunphy directing. - Press Release issued by Showtime with a little editing from us (color, highlights, etc...)
(http://www.sho.com/boxing)
(8/11/04)
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