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HBO Boxing

HBO championship boxing will telecast a replay of yesterdays Felix Trinidad\Ricardo Mayorga

Pay-Per-View bout this coming Saturday, October 9th at 11pm ET \ PT.

Boxing

Many newspapers are speculating that undefeated heavyweight boxer Joe Mesi will soon be announcing

his retirement. Mesi is believed to have suffered a subdural hematoma in his last bout with Vassily Jirov this

past March.

UFC (as posted on their website):

Clark County (NEV.) Judge Denies Motion To Prevent UFC From Holding Welterweight Title Fight, Oct. 22

Former Welterweight Champ BJ Penn Sought To Stop Title Bout

LAS VEGAS, NEV., September 30, 2004・The scheduled Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight title

fight between former champion Matt Hughes (37-4-0) from Hillsboro, Ill., and Georges St. Pierre (7-0-0) of

Montreal, Quebec, Canada, will come off as scheduled October 22 at UFC 50: War Of 04 at Boardwalk Hall

in Atlantic City, NJ, following the recent (Tuesday, Sept. 28) ruling by a Clark County (Nev.) judge that

denied a motion by former champion BJ Penn that sought to prevent the title bout.

Clark County (NEV.) District Court Judge Ken Cory denied the motion and an official court order concerning

the denial will be issued in the near future.

The judge listened to hours of legal arguments and testimony, then ruled that BJ did not have the right to

stop the UFC welterweight championship from taking place on October 22. "We are pleased that the judge

did not allow BJ to use the court system to prevent us from conducting our business,"said Dana White,

UFC president. "We have no hard feelings towards BJ and wish him well with his career in K-1."

Penn won the UFC welterweight title January 31 in Las Vegas with a first-round, tap out victory over Hughes.

But he then signed a contract to fight in K-1, an international kickboxing organization.

The Ultimate Fighting Championshipｮ brand of mixed martial arts is the world premier series of MMA

events. Owned and operated by Zuffa, LLC and headquartered in Las Vegas, Nev., UFCｮ fight programs

feature six live pay-per-view events annually through cable and satellite providers. In addition to its U.S.

distribution, UFC fight shows are distributed internationally through WOWOW, Inc. in Japan and Globosat in

Brazil. Zuffa, LLC licenses the distribution of UFC video games through Crave Entertainment and Take Two

TDK Mediactive, its fight show DVDs through Studioworks Entertainment, a Ventura distribution company,

and its musical CDs through Nitrus/DRT Entertainment, the official publisher of UFC music CDs. Ultimate

Fighting Championship,・Ultimate Fighting,・UFC,・Submission,・As Real As It Gets・and the Octagon

cage design are registered trademarks or trademarks owned exclusively by Zuffa, LLC in the U.S., Japan and

other jurisdictions. All other marks that may be referenced herein belong to their respective holder

Bouts \ Dates subject to change

(10/3/04)