HBO Championship Boxing

Ruiz vs. Toney

April 30, 2005

Madison Square Garden - 7pm PT

New York City

HBO Championship boxing will feature a heavyweight title bout this Saturday night when WBA champion

John "The Quite Man" Ruiz faces the WBA # 1 contender and IBA heavyweight champion James "Lights

Out" Toney.

Ruiz is coming of a unanimous decision win over Andrew Golota (38-5-1, 31 KOs) last November (2004)

and is on a three fight win streak since losing his WBA title to Roy Jones Jr. (49-3, 38 KOs) via unanimous

decision in March of 2003 - The three fight win streak includes regaining his WBA title in his very next bout

after the Jones Jr. fight when he defeated Hasim Rahman via unanimous decision in December of 2003 for

the WBA interim heavyweight title which became the full title when Jones Jr. vacated the belt.

Toney - a former middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight, and cruiserweight champion, is

coming off 12 round unanimous decision win over Rydell Booker (22-1, 12 KOs) in September of 2004 (and

won the vacant IBA heavyweight title). Toney has won his last 14 bouts and hasn't lost a fight since May of

1997 when he dropped a 12 round majority decision to Drake Thadzi (30-9-1, 25 KOs) for the IBO light

heavyweight title.

Heavyweight Title Bout (12 Rds)

WBA Champion John Ruiz (41-5-1, 28 KOs) vs. IBA Champion James Toney (68-4-2, 43 KOs)

Card subject to change

(4/25/05)