UBC INTERNATIONAL Presents the Ultimate B-boy Championship at the MGM Grand Garden Arena August 6 & 7

LAS VEGAS, May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- UBC INTERNATIONAL is proud to announce the inaugural Ultimate B-boy Championship to be held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena Friday, Aug. 6 and Saturday, Aug. 7.  This landmark event will showcase the best B-boy (break dancing) crews and individuals in the world as they move from the underground community into the mainstream.  The event is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. each night.

Individual day passes are priced at $1,200 (VIP), $120, $75 and $45 with a two-day package priced at $1,200 (VIP), $220, $140 and $80.  The tickets do not include applicable service charges and taxes and are now on sale and available at all Las Vegas Ticketmaster locations (select Smith's Food and Drug Centers and Ritmo Latino).  Ticket sales are limited to eight (8) per person.  To charge by phone with a major credit card, call Ticketmaster at (800) 745-3000.  Tickets also are available for purchase at www.mgmgrand.com or www.ticketmaster.com.

The Ultimate B-boy Championship will be hosted by the world-famous Wayne Brady with color commentary by Mr. Freeze, an original pioneer of break dancing.  The event will be judged by breaking founders Track 2, JoJo, Ken Swift, Benji and special invited judge DST.  World-class DJs Grand Wizard Theodore and DJ P will provide the entertaining music as the participants compete for cash prizes in the two-day event.

Over the next few weeks, UBC INTERNATIONAL will announce the famous B-boys who will be competing for the first-place prize at the Ultimate B-boy Championship.  These individuals will include former and current champions of international events.  UBC will provide a unifying B-boy championship title and will crown the 'best of the best' at MGM Grand in Las Vegas.  This premiere Ultimate B-boy Championship will be a landmark hip-hop and break-dance event.

UBC INTERNATIONAL is an organization fueled by creative individuals who wish to see the art of break-dancing enter the mainstream culture.  UBC is introducing its movement through its inaugural B-Boy Championship tournament in the U.S., where individuals and teams of break-dancers will compete to earn the title of B-Boy Champion.

The MGM Grand Garden Arena is home to concerts, championship boxing and premier sporting and special events. The Arena offers comfortable seating for as many as 16,800 with excellent sightlines and state-of-the-art acoustics, lighting and sound.  Prominent events to date have included world championship fights between Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson as well as Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather and George Foreman vs. Michael Moorer; and concerts by The Rolling Stones, Madonna, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Bette Midler, Gloria Estefan, Janet Jackson, Phil Collins, Sting, Billy Joel, AC/DC, Eagles, Jimmy Buffett, Backstreet Boys, 'N Sync and the Barbra Streisand Millennium Concert.  The MGM Grand Garden Arena also is home to the annual Academy of Country Music Awards (ACMA) and U.S. Open of Motocross.

SOURCE UBC INTERNATIONAL