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MAYWEATHER VS. HATTON BRINGS OUT THE STARS AS CELEBRITIES SIT RINGSIDE FOR MEGA-BOUT AT MGM GRAND

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LAS VEGAS -- A star-packed list of celebrity attendees are scheduled to be present as six-time world champion 'Pretty Boy' Floyd Mayweather takes on undefeated British icon Ricky ?The Hitman? Hatton for the WBC and Ring Magazine welterweight championships Saturday, December 8 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas and live on HBO Pay-Per-View.

Expected celebrity attendees include:

Bruce Willis, Actor
Will Farrell, Actor
Sylvester Stallone, Actor
Jeremy Piven, Actor
Mario Lopez, Actor
Wendell Pierce, Actor
Wayne Newton, Music Artist
Jay Z, Music Artist
Tom Jones, Music Artist
Leroy Neiman, Music Artist
David Beckham, Soccer Star
Helio Castroneves, Professional Race Car Driver & winner of Dancing With
the Stars Season 5
Magic Johnson, NBA Player
Ryan Howard, MLB Player
Derrek Lee, MLB Player
Karina Smirnoff, Professional Dancer
Mark Cuban, Dallas Mavericks Owner
Oscar de la Hoya, Fighter
Bernard Hopkins, Fighter
Shane Mosley, Fighter
Marco Antonio Barrera, Fighter
Juan Manuel Marquez, Fighter
Winky Wright, Fighter
Joe Calzaghe, Fighter
Miguel Cotto, Fighter
Lennox Lewis, Former World Champion
Angelo Dundee, Trainer

ABOUT 'UNDEFEATED'
World welterweight champion "Pretty Boy" Floyd Mayweather will meet British icon and world junior welterweight champion Ricky "The Hitman" Hatton for the WBC and Ring Magazine world welterweight championships Saturday, Dec. 8 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Promoted by Golden Boy Promotions and Mayweather Promotions, and sponsored by Rock Star Energy Drink, Tecate Beer and Southwest Airlines, the fight will be produced and distributed live by HBO Pay-Per-View. For more information on Mayweather vs. Hatton, visit www.goldenboypromotions.com.

Closed circuit tickets, priced at $50, are still available and can be purchased at MGM MIRAGE properties? box office outlets or by phone with a major credit card at 866-799-7711. For MGM Grand and Mandalay Bay venues, tickets also are available by visiting www.ticketmaster.com or by calling 702-474-4000. Ticket sales are limited to eight (8) per person and all seats are general admission.

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.




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