Hopkins, Tarver: In Studio with ESPN2’s Stephen A. Smith Tonight

NEW YORK, March 24th – The fight will be a war, but the battle between Antonio Tarver and Bernard Hopkins – which has been brewing from coast-to-coast during their four-city media tour this past week with stops in New York, Philadelphia, Tampa and Los Angeles- really kicks into gear tonight when the two go one-on-one in studio with ESPN2’s Stephen A. Smith on the hit series “Quite Frankly with Stephen A. Smith”. The show airs at 8:00pm (PT) / 10:00pm (CT) / 11:00pm (ET)..

ABOUT STEPHEN A. SMITH

Stephen A. Smith of the Philadelphia Inquirer joined ESPN as an NBA analyst in October of 2003. Smith hosts Quite Frankly with Stephen A. Smith, a 60-minute daily dose of sports news, opinions, issues and headlines, which premiered August 1, 2005 and is televised each weekday at 8:00pm (PT) / 10:00pm (CT) / 11:00pm (ET) on ESPN2. Smith has been a sports writer at the Philadelphia Inquirer since 1994. After first serving as a general sports writer, he has covered the 76ers and been the paper’s NBA columnist before becoming a general sports columnist in 2003. Previously, he covered news and sports at the New York Daily News (1993 – 1994) and worked at the Greensboro News and Record (1992 – 1993) and the Winston-Salem Journal (1991 – 1992). Since 1999, he has also been active in television and radio, primarily in Philadelphia, but also on Fox Sports Net, Fox News Channel, Fox Sports Radio and CNN/SI, in addition to appearances on ESPN Radio.

Tickets for the Tarver vs. Hopkins “Fight To The Finish” are priced at $750, $600, $400, $200, $100 and $50 are on sale now at the Boardwalk Hall Box Office. Tickets also will be sold at all Ticketmaster locations or by calling 1-800-736-1420. Tickets also are available for purchase at www.ticketmaster.com.

The Tarver vs. Hopkins “Fight To The Finish” pay-per-view telecast, beginning at 9pm ET/6pm PT on June 10, has a suggested retail price of $49.95, will be distributed by HBO Pay-Per-View and will be available to over 56 million pay-per-view homes. The telecast will be available in HD-TV for those viewers who can receive HD. HBO Pay-Per-View is the leading supplier of event programming to the pay-per-view industry