McBride, Brewster and Co. guests this week

BOSTON (June 14, 2005) – New England Ringside president Rick Brutti today announced that the twice-weekly New England Ringside Radio Show has expanded into Rhode Island and soon will be the most frequently aired broadcast in boxing.

"This is the next step in our expansion throughout New England," Brutti explained. "We want to provide information and entertainment to boxing fans all over New England and eventually across the country."

Thursday night's two-hour New England Ringside Boxing Radio Show – hosted by Ted Bodenrader, Anthony Pepe, Rick Brutti and Joe Bills – airing between 6-8 PM/ET on Boston's Boxing Station, The Zone (1510 AM). Starting this week it will now be simulcast on 1320 AM The Drive in Providence. This week's guests are Kevin "The Clones Colossus" McBride, hot off his upset of Mike Tyson, WBO heavyweight champion Lamon Brewster and Mike DeLisa, the historical consultant for "Cinderella Man."
The Drive (1320) will broadcast one-hour shows, 6-7 PM/ET from Providence, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. Saturday night's show, broadcast weekly between 7-9 PM/ET, is hosted by NER's Bill Skog, "Irish" Pat Kelley, "Dynamite" Danny Sheehan and Jeff "HellRaza" Fraza. This week's guests include Main Event's hard-working publicist Donald Tremblay. Saturday evening's show will be simulcast on 1320 The Drive starting in September.

All of the New England Ringside radio shows can be heard live on the Internet by going to www.newenglandringside.com.

New England Ringside also hosts a popular web site, publishes a monthly magazine, and owns Fightography (sells classic boxing pictures). For more information about New England Ringside call 781.932.1190 or go on line to www.newenglandringside.com.

NER Promotions, a division of New England Ringside, promotes its first ESPN2 Friday Nights Fight show – "Plymouth Rocks" -- July 1 in Plymouth (MA), headlined by the USBA light heavyweight title fight between George Khalid Jones (22-2-2, 13 KOs) and "Fabulous" Freddy Moore (30-3, 27 KOs).

Tickets, priced at $60.00 (ringside), $50.00 (reserved) and $30.00 (general admission) are available by going to www.ticketweb.com or calling 781.932.1190.