Rick Ross is confirmed to walk Roy Jones Jr. to the ring to face Felix “Tito” Trinidad, this Saturday, January 19, 2008 at Madison Square Garden.
In conjunction with the event, Rick Ross has also partnered with the Susan G. Komen Foundation for breast cancer research. Don King, the fight's promoter, has donated $100,000 to the Foundation and hopes to raise one million dollars.
Trinidad is a five-time world champion with a stunning career knockout ratio of 80 percent who has won titles in the welterweight, junior middleweight and middleweight classes. Jones is an eight-time world champion, winning belts in the middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions, becoming the first former middleweight champion to win a world heavyweight crown in more than 100 years.
The domestic pay-per-view telecast will begin at 9 pm ET/6 pm PT and is being produced and distributed by HBO Pay-Per-View. This domestic telecast will be available in HDTV for those viewers
who can receive HD.