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THIS TUESDAY! Ch?vez, Jr. & Lee El Paso News Conf. Open to Public PhilBoxing.com Sat, 21 Apr 2012  VIVA CH?VEZ! JULIO C?SAR CH?VEZ, JR. and ANDY LEE WORLD MIDDLEWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP EL PASO NEWS CONFERENCE LUNCHEON This Tuesday! April 24 at 12:30 P.M. MT Sun Bowl Stadium Field OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! EL PASO, TEX. (April 20, 2012) ? Undefeated World Middleweight Champion and the Son of the Legend, JULIO C?SAR CH?VEZ, JR. and No. 2 world-rated middleweight contender ANDY LEE will host an El Paso News Conference Luncheon to discuss the details on their upcoming world title rumble, This Tuesday! April 24, on the field of Sun Bowl Stadium. Media may reports at Noon MT, with lunch served at 12:30 p.m. MT and the news conference beginning at 1:00 p.m. MT. Joining Ch?vez Jr. will be Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum and Fernanado Beltran. Lee will be with Hall of Fame trainer Emanuel Steward and Ron Rizzo of DiBella Entertainment. Boxing fans are invited to attend the news conference. Ch?vez, Jr. returns to the boxing metropolis of El Paso, Texas for the first time in nearly six years, headlining ?Viva Ch?vez!? on Saturday, June 16, at Sun Bowl Stadium. Ch?vez Jr., who will be making the third defense of the title he won last year, against No. 2-world-rated contender ANDY LEE, marks the first world championship fight to be held in Sun Bowl Stadium since June 13, 1998 when Oscar De La Hoya knocked out Patrick Charpentier in the second round to retain his welterweight crown. The Ch?vez Jr. vs. Lee world championship rumble will be televised live on HBO World Championship Boxing?, beginning at 10:00 p.m. ET. Promoted by Top Rank, in association with Zanfer Promotions, DiBella Entertainment, AT&T and Tecate, tickets to the Ch?vez Jr. vs. Lee world title tilt go on sale Saturday April 28 at 2 p.m. ET / Noon MT. Tickets, priced at $200, $100, $60, $40 and $25, plus applicable service charges, can be purchased at the UTEP Ticket Center, all Ticketmaster outlets, online at www.ticketmaster.com and by phone at (915) 747-5234. These two warriors boast a combined record of 73-1-1 (51 KOs) ? a winning percentage of 97% and a victory by knockout ratio of 70%. Ch?vez Jr. (45-0-1, 31 KOs), of Culiacan, M?xico, making his first appearance in El Paso since August 19, 2006 when he knocked out Jermaine White in the fourth round of their welterweight bout, is the son of Mexico?s greatest fighter Julio C?sar Ch?vez. Ch?vez, 26, took up the ?family business? in 2003, winning a four-round decision in his professional debut. Eight years later, the reigning World Middleweight Champion and superior gate attraction is poised to make his own mark in the boxing world. He took a major step toward that goal by enlisting legendary trainer Freddie Roach to take him to the next level. Their first fight together was a gigantic success, a dominant 12-round unanimous decision victory over top-10 contender John Duddy (29-1, 18 KOs) in June 2010 at the Alamodome in San Antonio. After his January 29, 2011 unanimous decision win over Billy Lyell, Ch?vez Jr. became the second family member to win a world title, dethroning undefeated World Boxing Council (WBC) middleweight champion Sebastian Zbik via a majority decision. That June 4, 2011 slugfest took place at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles just a few blocks north of the Olympic Auditorium where the legendary Julio C?sar Ch?vez won his first world title. Ch?vez Jr. successfully defended his title on November 19, 2011 with a fifth-round knockout of Top-Five contender Peter Manfredo, Jr. at Reliant Arena in Houston, followed by a hard-fought unanimous decision on February 4 over No. 1 contender Marco Antonio Rubio at the Alamodome. Lee (28-1, 20 KOs), who at 6?2, is one inch taller than Ch?vez, Jr., was born in London but is Irish of heritage. Ireland?s sole boxing representative in the 2004 Olympics, Lee made his professional debut in 2006, winning a six-round decision over Anthony Cannon. Trained at the famed Kronk Gym in Detroit by Hall of Fame inductee Emanuel Steward, who has referred to Lee as ?my left-handed Tommy Hearns,? Lee possesses exceptional skills, speed and movement, complemented by good punching power and experience against good opposition. He enters this fight riding a four-year, 13-bout winning streak with eight of those victories coming inside the distance, including a win over Bryan Vera last October to avenge the only loss on his professional ledger. He enters this fight as a consensus Top Three world-rated contender, ranked No. 2 by the World Boxing Association (WBA) and World Boxing Organization (WBO) and No. 3 by the WBC.  |
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