Teen sensation and famed Hollywood actor Corbin Bleu, best known for his starring roles in High School Musical (2006), High School Musical 2 (2007), and Jump In! (2007), has been tapped to sing the national anthem at the highly anticipated boxing showdown between Felix “Tito” Trinidad and Roy Jones Jr. on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The anthem will be shown as part of the live HBO Pay-Per-View telecast.

Two of the greatest boxers in history, Felix “Tito” Trinidad and Roy Jones Jr., will face each other in a battle that boxing fans have been waiting for years to see at New York’s famed Madison Square Garden on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008, and will be produced and distributed live by HBO Pay-Per-View. For information contact: http://www.donking.com/events/post24_media.htm

Tickets are still available at all Ticketmaster outlets.

Trinidad is a five-time world champion with a stunning career knockout ratio of 80 percent who has won titles in the welterweight, junior middleweight and middleweight classes. Jones is an eight-time world champion, winning belts in the middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions, becoming the first former middleweight champion to win a world heavyweight crown in more than 100 years.

The domestic pay-per-view telecast will begin at 9 pm ET/6 pm PT and is being produced and distributed by HBO Pay-Per-View, available in more than 61 million pay-per-view homes. This domestic telecast will be available in HDTV for those viewers who can receive HD. HBO Pay-Per-View is the leading supplier of event programming to the pay-per-view industry. For your Trinidad vs. Jones fight week updates, log on to www.hbo.com.

The event is being promoted by Don King Productions in association with Madison Square Garden.

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