“UNDEFEATED” MAYWEATHER & HATTON FIVE-CITY GLOBAL MEDIA TOUR, New York City, Rockefeller Center SEPTEMBER 19

“UNDEFEATED” MAYWEATHER & HATTON FIVE-CITY GLOBAL MEDIA TOUR, New York City, Rockefeller Center SEPTEMBER 19— Helping to promote their upcoming “UNDEFEATED” welterweight championship, “Pretty Boy” Floyd Mayweather and Ricky “The Hitman” Hatton packed their bags and are on a five-city global media tour which marks the first time since the days of Muhammad Ali that a press tour has traveled across the seas.

“UNDEFEATED,” featuring Mayweather’s defense of his world welterweight championship against the universally recognized world junior welterweight champion Ricky Hatton, will be promoted by Golden Boy Promotions and Mayweather Promotions at the MGM Grand Garden Arena
Tickets for “UNDEFEATED,” priced at $1,000, $750, $600, $300 and $150, go on sale Monday, Sept. 17 at 10 am PT Tickets will be available for purchase by visiting www.ticketmaster.com or to charge by phone with a major credit card call (702) 474-4000. Ticket sales will be limited to two (2) per person. The Mayweather vs. Hatton pay-per-view telecast, beginning at 9 pm ET/6 pm PT, will be produced and distributed by HBO Pay-Per-View and will be available to more than 61 million pay-per-view homes.The telecast will be available in HD-TV for those viewers who can receive HD. HBO Pay-Per-View is the leading supplier of event programming to the pay-per-view industry. For your Mayweather vs. Hatton fight week updates, log on to www.hbo.com. For more information visit www.goldenboypromotions.com

Madison Square Garden TO ANNOUNCE OFFICIAL RETIREMENT OF LEGENDARY MADISON SQUARE GARDEN BOXING RING

JOE FRAZIER Hall of Fame, Heavyweight World Champion– Fight of the Century, BERNARD HOPKINS, Undisputed Middleweight Champion & current Light Heavyweight Champ, EMILE GRIFFITH, Hall of Fame, Middleweight World Champion, DON KING – Hall of Fame promoter and others Madison Square Garden TO ANNOUNCE OFFICIAL RETIREMENT OF LEGENDARY MADISON SQUARE GARDEN BOXING RING





Madison Square Garden

The celebrated life of the historic boxing ring of Madison Square Garden will officially be retired on Wednesday, September 19th. The legendary ring has hosted more championship bouts than any other boxing ring in existence and throughout the years has become the place where champions became legends.
Upon it’s official retirement the boxing ring will be donated to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, New York. The ring will be displayed in the Amphitheater where boxing fans from around the world will have the opportunity to learn of its legendary past.

WBC Heavyweight Champion Oleg Maskaev and WBC #1 ranked Contender Samuel Peter
to be on hand as new era begins on October 6th.






BUDDY McGIRT – Welterweight Champion & trainer

VITO ANTUOFERMO – World Middleweight Champion IRAN BARKLEY –


Middleweight Champion MARK BRELAND – Gold Medal winner and Welterweight Champion JOEY GIARDELLO – Hall of Fame - Middleweight World Champion VIRGIL HILL–


Light Heavyweight & Cruiserweight Champion JUNIOR JONES–


Bantamweight Champion JUAN LAPORTE–
Featherweight Champion CARLOS ORTIZ–
Hall of Fame World Champion MARLON STARLING - Welterweight Champion JOSE TORRES –


Hall of Fame World Champion GIL CLANCY – Hall of Fame trainer and broadcaster LOU DUVA – Hall of Fame trainer, manager, promoter

ARTHUR MERCANTE – Hall of Fame referee ED BROPHY, International Boxing Hall of Fame Executive Director SAM ROSEN, MSG Boxing Commentator