WORLD RANKED HEAVYWEIGHT, “FAST” EDDIE CHAMBERS RETURNS TO THE LEGENDARY BLUE HORIZON ON OCTOBER 3RD

Posted on | September 13, 2008 | No Comments

PHILADELPHIA (SEPTEMBER 12th, 2008)—On Friday night, October 3rd one of the best Heavyweights in the world will be coming back to the Legendary Blue Horizon as Blue Horizon Boxing Inc in association with Score America and Goossen-Tutor present: The Return of “Fast” Eddie Chambers.

Chambers, 31-1 with seventeen knockouts is currently ranked number-eight by the IBF, will grace The Legendary Blue Horizon ring for the first time in almost two and one-half years. Chambers amassed a perfect record of17-0 with nine knockouts at The Legendary Blue Horizon.

Since last fighting at The Legendary Blue Horizon, Chambers has built up a world-wide following by scoring victories over Derrick Rossy (15-0), Dominick Guinn (28-4-1) and Calvin Brock (31-1).

Chambers was one win a way from fighting for the Heavyweight championship of the world when he dropped a close decision to Alexander Povetkin.

The Philadelphia native got back in the win column on June 20th when he viciously stopped Raphael Butler in six rounds in The Cayman Islands.

Chambers opponent will be announced shortly and the fight will be the main event of a great night of boxing that will be streamed live on the internet on www.gofightlive.tv

A full undercard will be announced

QUOTES:

“Fast” Eddie Chambers (31-1, 17 KO’s)-IBF # 8 Heavyweight
“I basically got that start of my career here that led to my first success. I am excited to come back and start the second half of my career at a good pace that will help push for a title shot in 2009.”

“Tune on October 3rd on www.gofightlive.tv and hope all the fans can make it down here and hopefully they all will see a quick knockout.”

Dan Goossen (Chambers co-promoter of GOOSSEN-TUTOR)
“Eddie has all the talent in the world when he uses it and under the recent watchful eye of Rob Murray, I believe we’ll continue to see the improvement that we witnessed in his last victory in June.” “Getting back to his roots is a good thing and the Blue is his roots.”

Rob Murray Sr. (Manager/Trainer)
“Eddie undoubtedly the best heavyweight in the world”

“It is an honor to return to then number-one boxing club venue in the world. This is the place where we honed our skills.”

“When Eddie was coming up we made a promise that once we became contender’s we would come back to fight at The Legendary Blue Horizon and hopefully we can next come back here as the Heavyweight champion of the world.”

Ticket prices for this great night of boxing are $200 for Queen Seating, $125 for Presidential seats, $65 for VIP, $55 for Ringside, and $45 for General Admission and can be purchased by calling The Legendary Blue Horizon at 1-215-763-0500 or by logging on to comcasttix.com. Doors open at 6:30 PM / 1st bout begins at 7:30 PM

The Legendary Blue Horizon is located at 1314 North Broad Street in Philadelphia, PA

For more information, log on to www.legendarybluehorizon.com