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02/22/2005 Archived Entry: "Felix 'Tito' Trinidad, Winky Wright & Don King Host L.A. Press Conference Wednesday, February 23!"
Felix 'Tito' Trinidad, Winky Wright & Don King Host L.A. Press Conference Wednesday, February 23!
LOS ANGELES - Three time world champion Felix "Tito" Trindiad (42-1, 35 KO's), unified 154 lb. champion Winky Wright (48-3-25 KO's), and Don King will host a press conference to announce their May 14 mega-fight. One-on-ones will begin at 11:00 a.m., lunch served at 11:30, Noon press conference.
The conference will be held at Century Plaza, 2025 Avenue of the Stars in Los Angeles on Wednesday, February 23rd at 11:00 A.M.
Why? The world’s best 154-pound boxer, Winky Wright, who has never been knocked out, moves up to battle one of the best knockout artists ever in middleweight Felix “Tito” Trinidad at MGM Grand and on HBO Pay-Per-View on Saturday, May 14.
Both combatants can credibly argue being the hottest boxer in the sport today. Wright having defeated the gifted “Sugar” Shane Mosley to become the undisputed 154-pound champion on March 13, and beat him again in an immediate rematch on Nov. 20 has not lost a match in over five years. Three-time world champion and Puerto Rican superstar Trinidad emerged from a 29-month retirement to electrify a packed house at New York’s Madison Square Garden 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.
