"THE BATTLE OF ORLEANS" TICKETS ON SALE

14.06 – Press Release - Tickets for the highly anticipated “Battle At Orleans” rematch of perhaps the year’s biggest upset featuring WBC/WBA welterweight champion Ricardo “El Matador” Mayorga and former WBC 147-pound champion Vernon “The Viper” Forrest set for Saturday, July 12th are on sale now at The Orleans box office.

Three action-packed title fights are on tap on the Don King promoted night of professional boxing at Las Vegas’ newest and beautiful arena at The Orleans. Tickets, priced at $350, $250, $150, $50 and $35, are available by calling 866-87-FIGHT or (702) 284-7777 Monday-Saturday from 9 a.m.-8 p.m. and from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets can also be purchased at The Orleans, via the Internet at www.orleansarena.com and at several other Las Vegas outlets, including the Sun Coast, Gold Coast, Meadows Mall, Boulevard Mall and the Galleria Mall.

Mayorga (24-3-1, 1 NC, 22 KOs), of Managua, Nicaragua, shocked the boxing world when he registered a third-round KO over Forrest on Jan. 25, 2003, in Temecula, Calif. Forrest (35-1, 26 KOs), of Atlanta, stamped himself as one of boxing’s best pound-for-pound fighters in 2002 after winning consecutive 12-round unanimous decisions over Shane Mosley on Jan. 26 in New York, and July 20 in Indianapolis.

In the second of three world title fights, DeMarcus “Chop Chop” Corley (28-1-1, 16 KOs), of Washington, D.C., will put his World Boxing Organization (WBO) Junior Welterweight crown on the line for a third time when he faces former International Boxing Federation (IBF) junior welterweight titleholder Zab “Super” Judah (28-1, 1 NC, 21 KOs), of Brooklyn, N.Y. Rounding out the Don King Productions, in association with Main Events world championship tripleheader will be WBA Super Welterweight Champion Vivian Harris (22-1-1, 16 KOs), of Brooklyn, N.Y. making his initial title defense against unbeaten mandatory challenger, Souleymane “The Sensation” M’Baye (27-0, 18 KOs) of Levallois-Perret, France. The Mayorga-Forrest and Corley-Judah bouts will be televised by HB

Highlighting an outstanding undercard will be two exciting elimination bouts. In a rematch of their July 27, 2002, contest, IBF No. 3 contender Pete Frissina (26-3-1, 15 KOs), of Tarpon Springs, Fla., will take on No. 5 Jesus Perez (23-2-2, 13 KOs), of Cordoba, Colombia in an IBF bantamweight eliminator. Frissina captured the first meeting in a hard-fought 12 round decision to retain his North American Boxing Organization (NABO) 118-pound title. In, addition, former WBA light heavyweight champion and current WBA No. 2 contender, Lou Del Valle (31-3-1, 21 KOs), of Long Island, NY will battle No. 5 contender Manuel Siaca (16-4, 15 KOs), of Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, in a WBA light heavyweight eliminator.