HBO Championship Boxing

Nikolai Valuev vs. Monte Barrett

October 7, 2006

Allstate Arena

Chicago, Illinois

10pm ET \ 7pm PT

WBA Heavyweight Title Bout (12 Rds)

Champion Nikolai Valuev (44-0, 32 KOs) vs. 10th ranked Monte Barrett (31-4, 17 KOs)

WBC Light Heavyweight Title Bout (12 Rds)

Champion Tomasz Adamek (30-0, 21 KOs) vs. # 1 ranked Paul Briggs (25-2, 18 KOs)

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Giant Russian’ Nikolai Valuev & Polish Stars at Allstate Arena Oct. 7

Undefeated WBA Heavyweight Champion Defends Title Against Monte ‘Two Gunz’ Barrett;

Undefeated WBC Light Heavy Champion Tomasz Adamek in Rematch with Paul Briggs;

Matt ‘Boom Boom’ Zegan Battles Nate Cambell to Determine IBF No. 1 Lightweight

TICKETS ON SALE NOW

CHICAGO - Americans will get their chance to see undefeated 7-foot, 325-pound Nikolai “Giant Russian”

Valuev, who has vowed to “conquer America” when he makes the second defense of his World Boxing

Association title against Monte “Two Gunz” Barrett at Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Ill., on Oct. 7.

Tickets priced at $250, $200, $100, $75, $50 and $35, with a limited number of golden circle seats available

at $500, go on sale Monday at 11 a.m. at the Allstate Arena box office (847-635-6601), online at

Ticketmaster.com or through charge by phone by calling (312) 559-1212.

A stellar world championship co-feature has been added with undefeated World Boxing Council champion

Tomasz Adamek, from Poland, facing Australian Paul “Hurricane” Briggs in a rematch. Their first meeting,

in Chicago, was a brutal display of wills so special it has been remembered as one of last year’s finest bouts.

An International Boxing Federation lightweight elimination bout scheduled for 12 rounds will also be included

with No. 5-ranked contender Matt “Boom Boom” Zegan, from Wroclaw, Poland, taking on No. 9-ranked

Nate Campbell, from Jacksonville, Fla., for the No. 1 position.

A three-city media tour was hosted by Don King and Valuev’s German-based promoter Wilfried Sauerland

to introduce to America the tallest, heaviest, first Russian and currently longest-reigning world heavyweight

champion in August with stops in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.

For more information, visit: www.donking.com.

- Press Release issued by Don King Productions with a little editing from us (color, etc...)

Subject to change

(9/25/06)