Dream Sports International is honored to present the greatest professional women’s boxing event ever: Ali Frazier IV: The Next Generation. Jacqui Frazier-Lyde has been taking verbal jabs at Laila Ali for over a year. Now, the much hoped for match-up between the daughters of boxing champions and legends Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali is officially set for Friday, June 8th, 2001 at the Turning Stone Casino resort on the Oneida Nation Homelands in Verona NY.
The Ali/Frazier Saga was a larger than life event that surpassed all imaginable expectations, becoming a social and political affirmation affair that captured the attention of people from all walks of life. These two men brought the best in each other in the ring, and proved the dramatic value of the sport and it’s ability to capture audiences all over the world aside from the sports fan. Now, a new generation is ready to step into the ring to reawaken the same emotions, revive the same drama and is finally breaking ground as the most expected female fight ever.
Frazier, who’s nickname ‘Sister Smoke’ was given to her by Muhammad Ali, has a perfect 7-0 record with 7 KO’s. Ali, with the nickname of ‘She Bee Stinging’, in honor of her father’s famous ‘Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee’ quote, is undefeated with a 9-0 record with 8 KO’s.
Jackie Frazier-Lyde and Laila Ali are born to the sport. Not only do they honor their father’s legacies, they also bring highly anticipated attention to the sport of professional women’s boxing. Dream Sports International is pleased to provide the world with the first live, globally viewed female boxing headliner, and elevate the standing of women’s professional sports on a global scale.
Frazier, 39, is a practicing attorney and mother of three. Ali, 23, owned a nail salon before taking up professional boxing.
Hector J. Figueroa, CEO of Sport International and Co-CEO of Dream Sports International said ‘We are proud to be providing the ultimate in woman’s boxing to a worldwide audience, demonstrating, as we have with the South American World Cup Qualifiers, our strategic market penetration of US and Canadian Pay-Per-View and Closed Circuit audiences and our ability to take a live event to an international market.’
‘Dream Sports International is solidifying its position as a world class partner for live sporting events’, said John Parks, CEO of Prostar and Co-CEO of Dream Sports International, ‘We are showcasing our abilities to take an event from the camera lens to the eyes of worldwide viewers and elevating woman’s sports around the world.’
Their fathers met at thirty years ago at Madison Square Garden. The fight became one of the best bouts in history. It was the first installment for a classic trilogy, which marked the annals of boxing forever. A generation later, another chapter in this explosive saga unfolds.
For more details contact:
Juan Lara, Dream Sports International
Tel: (787) 764-4585
e-mail juan@sport-international.com