ADVISORY/Don King Productions: Middleweights & Harlem Pay Homage to Sugar Ray Robinson.Sports Editors Noun 1. sports editor - the newspaper editor responsible for sports news newspaper editor - the editor of a newspaper ADVISORY for...Tuesday (April 10) HARLEM, N.Y.--(BW SportsWire)--April 9, 2001 The four participants in the upcoming Middleweight World Championship Series--Felix "Tito" Trinidad, William Joppy William Torelle Joppy is an American middleweight boxer. Born in Silver Spring, Maryland on September 11, 1970, he has held the WBA middleweight title on two occasions. Joppy first became the WBA champion in June 1996 by stopping defender Shinji Takehara in Japan with a flurry of , Bernard "The Executioner EXECUTIONER. The name given to him who puts criminals to death, according to their sentence; a hangman. 2. In the United States, executions are so rare that there are no executioners by profession. " Hopkins and Keith Holmes--will all make a pilgrimage to "Sugar Ray Robinson's block" in Harlem on Tuesday for a press conference at Noon. Sugar Ray Robinson Noun 1. Sugar Ray Robinson - United States prizefighter who won the world middleweight championship five times and the world welterweight championship once (1921-1989) Ray Robinson, Walker Smith, Robinson reigned supreme in the middleweight division from 1951 to 1958 and owned a city block in Harlem with his own restaurant, barber shop and apartments. The MWCS MWCS Marine Wing Communications Squadron MWCS Major Works Control System is a three-fight tournament promoted by Don King Productions at Madison Square Garden Current arenas in the National Hockey League Western Conference Eastern Conference . Hopkins will face Holmes on April 14, and Trinidad will face Joppy on May 12. The winners of these two matches will face one another on Sept. 15 to produce an undisputed middleweight king, who will also receive a specially commissioned Sugar Ray Robinson trophy.
WHO: BERNARD HOPKINS
IBF Middleweight Champ
38-2-1 (28 KOs)
KEITH HOLMES
Two-time WBC Middleweight Champ
35-2-0 (23 KOs)
FELIX TRINIDAD
WBA-IBF 154-pound Champ
39-0-0 (32 KOs)
WILLIAM JOPPY
Two-time WBA Middleweight Champ
32-1-1 (24 KOs)
Don King, Congressman Charles B. Rangel, Greater Harlem
Chamber of Commerce President Lloyd Williams
WHEN: Tuesday, April 10, 2001
12 p.m. EDT (Noon)
WHERE: Between 123rd St. and 124th St. on the west side of A.C.
Powell Jr. Blvd. in front of the Ennis Francis houses.
WHAT: Middleweight World Championship Series press conference.
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