Brewster-Golota Tix on Sale Saturday at 1 PM
3/16 - World Boxing Organization heavyweight champion “Relentless”
Lamon Brewster will put his title on the line against Andrew “Powerful Pole”
Golota at the United Center on May 21. The event is being promoted by
Don King Productions in association with the United Center.
Tickets priced at $35, $75, $100, $200, $300 and $500 will go on sale
Saturday at 1 p.m. and can be purchased at the United Center Box
Office,
www.ticketmaster.com, and at all Ticketmaster outlets. Tickets can
also be
charged by phone by calling (312) 559-1212.
This marks the first time a world heavyweight championship will be
decided
in the Chicagoland area since World Boxing Association heavyweight
champion
Mike Weaver won a unanimous 15-round decision over James “Quick” Tillis
at
the Rosemont Horizon on Oct. 3, 1981.
“It’s great to return to the Windy City,” promoter Don King said. “I
have
been bringing fights back to the people in St. Louis, Worcester in New
England, and now in Chicago. The response from the public in these
cities
has been tremendous.”
King added, “It’s great to be working with Bill Wirtz again,” King said
in
reference to United Center President William Wirtz. “He has been an
integral factor in bringing big-time boxing back to Chicago, starting
with
this event.”
King took his undisputed world welterweight championship featuring Cory
“The
Next Generation” Spinks and Zab “Super” Judah to the Savvis Center in
St.
Louis on Feb. 5—a city that had not hosted a major prizefight in
decades.
The event sold out with 22,370 in attendance, the most people to ever
witness a boxing match at an indoor arena.
“The United Center will put over 23,000 tickets on sale,” Wirtz said,
“and
the St. Louis attendance record will be short-lived.”
Brewster (31-2, 27 KOs), from Indianapolis now living in Los Angeles,
won
his title by defeating Ukrainian giant Wladimir Klitschko at Mandalay
Bay in
Las Vegas on April 10, 2004. He successfully defended his title with a
split-decision victory over Australian Kali “Checkmate” Meehan in his
last
appearance at Mandalay Bay on Sept. 4.
Golota (38-5-1, 31 KOs), who has lived in Chicago since 1991 after
emigrating from Warsaw, Poland, will make his third attempt in a row to
win
a world heavyweight title. Golota fought International Boxing
Federation
champion Chris Byrd to a draw at Madison Square Garden on April 17,
2004,
and knocked down WBA heavyweight champion John “The Quietman” Ruiz
twice at
the Garden on Nov. 13. Many ringside observers felt Golota had won the
fight, but he suffered a decision loss in the contest.
In another great world title fight, the vacant World Boxing Council
light
heavyweight championship will be up for grabs when WBC No. 1 contender
Paul
“Hurricane” Briggs (23-1, 15 KOs), from Australia now fighting out of
Los
Angeles, takes on undefeated No. 3-ranked contender Tomasz Adamek, from
Bielsko Biala, Poland, now living and training in Chicago out of the
Golota
camp.
A press conference hosted by King featuring many of the fighters on the
card
has been scheduled for April 6 at the United Center.
“I want to be in Chicago in early April to introduce Chicago to our
event
and the boxers, kick off the baseball season with the White Sox and the
Cubs, and to welcome the Fighting Illini basketball team back to
Chicago
with the NCAA crown,” King said.
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