Two

Wright vs. Trinidad

May 14th, 2005

MGM Grand Garden Arena

Las Vegas, Nevada

Middleweight Bout (12 Rds)

Winky Wright (48-3, 25 KOs) vs. Felix “Tito” Trinidad (42-1, 35 KOs)

Undisputed Welterweight Title Bout (12 Rds)

Champ Zab Judah (33-2, 24 KOs) vs. Cosme Rivera (28-7-2, 20 KOs)

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Felix “Tito” Trinidad and Winky Wright to Meet May 14

First Pay-Per-View Mega-Fight of 2005 Set for MGM Grand in Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS—The world’s best 154-pound boxer, Winky Wright, who has never been knocked out, moves

up to middleweight to battle one of the best knockout artists ever in Puerto Rican superstar Felix “Tito”

Trinidad at MGM Grand Garden Arena and on HBO Pay-Per-View on Saturday, May 14. 

Both combatants can credibly argue being the hottest boxer in the sport today. Three-time world champion

Trinidad emerged from a 29-month retirement to electrify a packed house at New York’s Madison Square

Garden, and the second-highest pay-per-view audience of the year, with a slugfest against former unified

welterweight champion Ricardo “El Matador” Mayorga on Oct. 2, which Trinidad won with a spectacular

eighth-round technical knockout.

Wright defeated the gifted “Sugar” Shane Mosley to become the undisputed 154-pound world champion on

March 13—and beat him again in an immediate rematch on Nov. 20—which catapulted him into the top five

in “pound-for-pound” best boxer in the world lists. Wright has also not lost a match in over five years.

Wright (48-3, 25 KOs), from St. Petersburg, Fla., is a southpaw known for his all-around boxing abilities, who

has been avoided by big-name opponents fearing his pugilistic prowess. The first boxing star to agree to face

Wright was a then-undefeated Fernando Vargas in 1999, who had knocked out every opponent he had

faced, 17 in all. Wright was the sharper puncher and boxer throughout much of the fight and although many

at ringside felt he won, Vargas slipped by with a majority decision win.

Trinidad (42-1, 35 KOs) has earned his status in large measure by never having walked away from a good

fight, as evidenced by a seemingly endless list of tough opponents since 1999 including Pernell “Sweet

Pea” Whitaker, “The Golden Boy” Oscar De La Hoya, David Reid, “Ferocious” Fernando Vargas,

William Joppy, Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins and Mayorga. The question is, will Trinidad be

“Wright” or wrong in agreeing to face Winky?

“While many boxers avoid tough fights, Tito Trinidad always wants to fight the best,” said promoter Don

King. “Tito has proven yet again he has the heart of a lion by agreeing to face the great world champion

Winky Wright.”

“Trinidad vs. Wright is an intriguing matchup between two elite fighters who continually seek out the biggest

challenges,” said Mark Taffet, HBO Senior Vice President of Sports Operations & Pay-Per-View. “Boxing

fans always appreciate it when the best face the best.”

Tickets priced at $1000, $750, $400, $200 and $100 are on sale now and are available at any MGM Grand

box office outlet. Tickets also are sold at all Las Vegas TicketMaster locations (Tower Records/WOW!,

Smith's Food and Drug Centers, Robinsons-May stores and Ritmo Latino). Ticket sales are limited to eight

(8) per person. To charge by phone with a major credit card, call TicketMaster at (702) 474-4000. Tickets

also will be available for purchase at www.mgmgrand.com or www.ticketmaster.com.

The event is being promoted by Don King Productions in association with MGM Grand and Gary Shaw

Productions and will be produced and distributed domestically by HBO Pay-Per-View, available to more than

50 million pay-per-view homes. The telecast will begin at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT and will be broadcast

internationally and on closed circuit by KingVision.

For room packages and availability and event ticket information about the MGM Grand, call (800) 929-1111

or (702) 891-7777 or log onto the World Wide Web at www.mgmgrand.com.

The MGM Grand Garden Arena is home to concerts, championship boxing and premier sporting and special

events. The Arena offers comfortable seating for as many as 16,800 with excellent sightlines and state-of-

the-art acoustics, lighting and sound. Prominent events to date have included world championship fights

between Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson as well as Oscar De La Hoya vs. Bernard Hopkins and

George Foreman vs. Michael Moorer; and concerts by The Rolling Stones, Madonna, Elton John,

Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Bette Midler, Gloria Estefan, Janet Jackson, Phil Collins, Billy

Joel, Backstreet Boys, 'N Sync, Sting, Jimmy Buffett and the Barbra Streisand Millennium Concert. The

MGM Grand Garden Arena is also home to the annual FOX Billboard Music Awards, the annual Andre

Agassi Grand Slam for Children Benefit and the VH1 Divas Las Vegas shows.

Don King Productions has promoted more than 500 world championship matches including some of the

biggest events in history. DKP has promoted or co-promoted 12 of the top-20 highest-grossing live gates in

the history of the state of Nevada including the top five: Holyfield vs. Lewis II, paid attendance: 17,078, gross:

$16,860,300 (NOTE: Also highest live-gate gross for any event in the history of the world.), date: Nov. 13,

1999; Holyfield vs. Tyson II, paid attendance: 16,279, gross: $14,277,200, date: June 28, 1997; Holyfield vs.

Tyson I, paid attendance: 16,103, gross: $14,150,700, date: Nov. 9, 1996; Tyson vs. McNeeley, paid

attendance: 16,113, gross: $113,965,600, date: Aug. 19, 1995; and De La Hoya vs. Trinidad, paid

attendance: 11,184, gross: $12,949,500 (Also garnered the most pay-per-view buys for a non-heavyweight

fight at 1.4 million.), date: Sept. 18, 1999.

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

Card Subject to Change

(2/22/05)