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What The Riders Have To Say:

"It has been a number of years, and we are both a little older. He said let’s not kill each other; we are getting older. I was like @#$! you, Damon. When the helmet goes on, we can throw everything out of the window. The last time we raced in Las Vegas, he cleaned my clock."
--Jeff Matiasevich

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Stats:

Championships
Bradshaw:
1989 Eastern Regional AMA Supercross Lites
1989 Motocross/Supercross Rookie of the Year
1990 & 1991 member of winning Team USA Motocross des Nations

Matiasevich:
1988 Western Regional AMA Supercross Lites
1989 Western Regional AMA Supercross Lites

All Time AMA Supercross Lites Class Win List
Matiasevich: 9th First Win: 1/31/87 Last Win: 6/10/89 Total Wins: 11
Bradshaw: 22nd (tied) First Win: 2/18/89 Last Win: 5/6/89 Total Wins: 6

All Time AMA Supercross Class Win List
Bradshaw: 8th First Win: 1/27/90 Last Win: 2/20/93 Total Wins: 19
Matiasevich: 33rd First Win: 3/17/90 ----------------------- Total Wins: 1

All Time AMA Motocross Lites Class Win List
Bradshaw: 28th (Tied) First Win: 4/30/89 Last Win: 10/15/89 Total Wins: 4
Matiasevich: 45th (Tied) First Win: 10/1/89 ------------------------- Total Wins: 1

All Time AMA Motocross Class Win List
Bradshaw: 16th (Tied) First Win: 5/27/90 Last Win: 5/25/97 Total Wins: 6
Matiasevich: 38th (Tied) First Win: 7/28/91 ------------------------- Total Wins: 1

Wins in Las Vegas
Matiasevich: 3/17/90 Sam Boyd Stadium AMA Supercross Kawasaki
Bradshaw: N/A

Quick Facts:

Bradshaw has only one AMA win on a brand other than Yamaha. He won the 1997 AMA Motocross class aboard a Honda.
Matiasevich won every AMA main event of his career aboard a Kawasaki.
1989 was the best season of Bradshaw’s career. He won a combined 10 AMA Motocross/Supercross Lites main events. It was the only year he captured a championship.
1989 was also the best season of Matiasevich’s career. He won a combined seven AMA Motocross/Supercross Lites main events.
Matiasevich was the first Lites-class rider to win an AMA Supercross class main event. He won the main event in Las Vegas in 1990.
Matiasevich was the first ever Lites class rider to win back-to-back championships (’88 & ’89). He was Kawasaki’s first rider to accomplish this as well.
Bradshaw was Yamaha’s first rider to win a Lites-class championship.

What Industry Insiders Say:

"I hope there's enough prize money left over to bail these two guys out of jail because you might need it! The Chicken and the Beast is one of those rivalries that lasts forever."
--Davey Coombs Racer X

"I was in Sam Boyd Stadium that night in 1992 and sitting in a section near where Damon launched his bike at the Chicken. I was also in the same stadium for the first supercross ever run in Las Vegas. It was on March 17, 1990 and Chicken won his first and only supercross that night. (A young kid on a Team Green KX125 also won his first supercross that same evening. I think his name was Jeremy McGrath). It’s good to see the two old boys — over 15 years later — back in Vegas and ready to start throwing haymakers at one another’s heads. Chicken has a sucker punch and a win on the Beast, so it could be time for The Big Payback in Sin City. The entire town is built on a bedrock of bad decisions, bad judgment and ALWAYS doing the WRONG thing, so we could be in luck! Ha! "
--Eric Johnson/Senior Contributor/Racer X

"This rematch is one everybody's been waiting for! I'm as excited for this race as the real one! This is no hype; these two guys do not like each other. It should be a slam-fest in Vegas! "
--Steve Matthes, Reporter, Racer X

"Its' pretty tough for these guys to go out and risk so much on a tough track like the US Open. Especially risking their egos."
--Jimmy Lewis, Editor, Dirt Rider Magazine

"When I initially heard that they were having a legends rematch race, the first two riders I thought of were Matiasevich and Bradshaw. This race had to happen and should be one for the ages."
--David Izer, host, DMXS Radio

"My reason for going to Vegas - to find the answer to the age old question of who's faster, the Chicken or the Egg that hatched the Beast from the East."
--John Clark, President, Hammerhead Designs, Inc

"That 'beast of the east' will ruffle some feathers with that chicken. KFC in Vegas so to speak. "
--Frank Hoppen, Hoppenworld.com

"You just couldn't make up a drama this good! Head to head and bar to bar, the world will be watching..."
--Sean Goulart, Editor, www.MXNewsfeed.com

"Just the thought of these 2 guys going at it makes me wish I had a mullet "
--Danny Dobey, One Industries

"There's likely to be as much action off the track as on it when these two meet back up again at the U.S. Open. "
--Steve Cox, Editor at Large, Racer X Magazine