On July 26 Riga will wake up as the most important boxing city in Baltic of all times.
Professional combative tournament and the show "Night of Champions in Riga" starts this warm summer evening for the first time.
The importance of tournament can't be overestimated! The most popular, eminent and best in their weight categories professional fighters will meet in fights which will be shown by one of the central channels of Russia and some other countries.
In breaks guests of tournament will be entertained by "A-Europe", Rassell & Sabine Berezina, "Invasion", Joe Lynn Turner from "Rainbow" and "Deep Purple" and other stars, who will perform on two scenes.
Guests in evening and cocktail dresses will settle down on a green field under the more than 700 sq.m roof on soft sofas of the Platinum zone and the VIP chairs of orchestra seats around the ring. Here will be the best service from popular restaurants of St. Petersburg and Riga will. Guests of tribunes will have possibility of restaurant service in special zones. The fights will be broadcast on huge screens.
The first fight will already be title and champion
Aik "Gumanoid" Shakhnazaryan from Russia (Samara) and Kaizer "Animal" Mabuza from South Africa will meet in very spectacular 12-rounds fight in lightweight for the International Champion's title according to WBO (WBO International Title).
Ike is one of the most popular boxers of modern Russia with a very spectacular, furious style, the owner of a WBO belt.
This evening you will meet the most popular and titled boxers in the world. At first twelvefold world champion according to the IBF version in three weight categories, the best boxer of 1991 and 2003 according to the Ring magazine great James of "Light Out" of Toney will come to the ring. This fighter, whose sparing-partner for a long time was Mickey Rourke, passed all circles of "a boxing hell", he won against Holiefield, Rahman, great Joe Ruiz and Roy Jones. He is 45 years old, but he is in a fantastic physical form. His rival - double world kickboxing champion, Belarusian Evgeny Orlov will convince in it in the 10-rounds rating fight.
Then there will be an amazing fight. After the fight the most Tony’s irreconcilable and great rival will rise on the ring. It is one of the most outstanding and popular boxers in the world - Roy of "Captain Hook" of Jones.
Roy is the all-around champion of the world in semi-heavy weight category. The world champion in average (IBF, 1993 — 1994 version), the second average (IBF, 1994 — 1996 version), semi-heavy (the WBC, 1997, 1997 — 2002 and 2003 — 2004 version; WBA, 1998 — 2002 version; the IBF, 1999 — 2002 version), in the first heavy (the WBU version, 2013 — N of century) and heavy (WBA, 2003 version) weight categories. The American association of the journalists writing about boxing, called Jones "The boxer of decade" in the nineties. He also headed Pound for pound rating (a rating of the best boxers regardless of weight category according to the Ring magazine) in 1996, 1999 and 2003. The first boxer for all history of boxing who became the world champion on the average weight, then managed to win a title in the second average, semi-heavy and in heavy weight. Roy is James Tony's irreconcilable rival who promised not to participate in tournaments in which James fights. Organizers had to spend many efforts to resolve this task. In 10-rounds rating fight, Roy will meet the picked up rival, whose name will be determined by the results of the fights.
It really will be "Night of Champions", after all in the following 12-rounds fight for a belt of the champion of IBA will fight the favourite of Latvia, the champion of IBA Mairis Briedis. There will be a spectacular, rigid boxing! His rival will be a professional boxer Valery Brudov from Russia, who has WBC regional title and also is a winner of WBA eliminator.
The evening will come to the end with a surprising fight for a rank of the World champion according to the one of the most prestigious versions.