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Trinidad vs.Wright Boxing Odds Information
On May 14th “Winky” Wright will be the 7th south paw to Face Felix Trinidad.
Trinidad has faced six southpaws in his career and has beat all six. Will
Winky Wright be his seventh south paw victim?
Both Felix “Tito” Trinidad and Ronald “Winky” Wright hav made assurances of a
victory, although Tito is predicting to use the dangerous south paw as a stepping
stone to Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins. Promoter Don King took advantage of the momentum
at the event to make annoucement for the inevitable Felix Trinidad vs. Bernard Hopkins
rematch by both praising and challenging the undisputed middleweight champion.
Trinidad suffered his first defeat against Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins. In the
finale of the Middleweight Championship Series, Hopkins knocked down Trinidad and stopped
him at 1:43 of the final round before a stunned crowd of 19,075 in Madison Square Garden.
Both combatants can credibly argue being the hottest boxer in the sport today.
Three-time world champion Trinidad emerged from a 29-month retirement to electrify
a packed house at New York’s Madison Square Garden, and the second-highest
pay-per-view audience of the year, 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.
Trinidad (42-1, 35 KOs) has earned his status in large measure by never having walked away
from a good fight, as evidenced by a seemingly endless list of tough opponents since 1999
including Pernell “Sweet Pea” Whitaker, “The Golden Boy” Oscar De La Hoya, David Reid,“Ferocious” Fernando Vargas, William Joppy, Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins and Mayorga.
The question is, will Trinidad be “Wright” or wrong in agreeing to face Winky?
Wright defeated the gifted “Sugar” Shane Mosley to become the undisputed 154-pound world
champion on March 13-and beat him again in an immediate rematch on Nov. 20-which
catapulted him into the top five in “pound-for-pound” best boxer in the world lists.
Wright has also not lost a match in over five years.
Wright (48-3, 25 KOs), from St. Petersburg, Fla., is a southpaw known for his all-around
boxing skills, who has been avoided by big-name opponents fearing his pugilistic prowess.
The first boxing star to agree to face Wright was a then-undefeated Fernando Vargas in 1999,
who had knocked out every opponent he had faced, 17 in all. Wright was the sharper puncher
and boxer throughout much of the fight and although many at ringside felt he won,
Vargas slipped by with a majority decision win.
The event is being promoted by Don King Productions in association with MGM Grand and Gary
Shaw Productions and will be produced and distributed domestically by HBO Pay-Per-View,
available to more than 50 million pay-per-view homes. The telecast will begin at 9 p.m.
ET/6 p.m. PT and will be broadcast internationally and on closed circuit by KingVision.
Don King Productions has promoted more than 500 world championship matches including some
of the biggest events in history. DKP has promoted or co-promoted 12 of the top-20
highest-grossing live gates in the history of the state of Nevada including the top five:
Holyfield vs. Lewis II, paid attendance: 17,078, gross: $16,860,300
(NOTE: Also highest live-gate gross for any event in the history of the world.)
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